November is not only a time to grow beards but also a month to talk about measurement and evaluation of communication. It is thus a time when under AMEC’s Measurement Month umbrella, communicators around the world, talk (a bit more loudly) about the need for measurement and evaluation, diss AVEs and think about how automation […]
GMP PR Romania has organised their second international conference dedicated to PR measurement. I was invited to join them again (I was thrilled but they say I have done a good job the first time around) and my brief was to talk about what should PR practitioners measure after a crisis. Like with the PROI […]
#Rezist in focus: reflections on how to keep civic activism going
The online book that Darren G. Lilleker and I have edited and published this June analyzing the #rezist anti-corruption protests in Romania has given us numerous opportunities of reflection. Protest PR and the future of civic activism in two events Ghildul activistului obosit (The guide of the fatigued activist) debate in Romania, organized by Frontline […]
Augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence are interesting technological developments that PR practitioners could use for their organisations and clients. At the PROI Worldwide meeting in Bucharest (PROI is the longest-running partnership of independent public relations agencies) practitioners were more concerned with how these creative applications can support their work and, most importantly, how […]
Quadriga’s Social Media Conference has reached a beautiful milestone this year – 10 years – and we celebrated it the way we know best: focusing on the things that matter most this year, that is “influencer relations, channels & content and performance & controlling”. The colleagues have prepared a very exciting line up and program, with very […]
“Fake news” is 2017’s word of the year (or at least it is so in Australia). Joined by alternative facts and post-truth society, fake news is a signal to a changing trend in how people relate to information, the sources that share it and their credibility. Fake news is not new The concept of fake […]
This year’s European Communication Summit has focused on collaboration. I had the pleasure of joining the summit as a speaker again this year and thus had a chance to revisit and renew a topic close to my heart, my research and something I had spoken about before. Storytelling as narrative The talk of this year was […]
Science Communication & Measurement – PARI 2017 workshop notes
I am these days in Garching, near Munchen, the home of the European Southern Observatory (an absolutely stunning and inspiring place) and the host of the PARI 2017 Workshop on Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures. This is an event dedicated to science communication (as I understand it) where scientists turned communicators and communicators with a passion for […]
The 3rd Employer Branding conference organized by Quadriga, the mission was ambitious: to follow the entire roadmap of developing an employer brand, encapsulated in ‘think – do – measure – learn’. My Twitter “Moments” summary captures some of the insights from the day. It’s been a very busy two days, packed with very diverse presentations […]
In preparation of the PR Impact Awards, I also met with JÅ«ratÄ— ŽuolytÄ— from Delfi, Lithuania’s biggest online news platform, to discuss (what else) about PR measurement. I have to admit that she grilled me on why PR should be measured and how it can be done, teasing out a preview of my talk planned for […]
I have been looking forward to my visit to Vilnius and my participation to the PR Impact Awards 2017 and it was so great! It was at Lina Jakucioniene‘s invitation, an ambassador of the European Association of Communication Directors and Chairperson of the Board of Lithuanian Public Relations Specialists Association, that I went there and I […]
Vilnius, here I come! I am really looking forward to joining Lithuania’s largest annual PR and Comms event (PR Impact Awards 2017) organized by the Lithuanian Public Relations Specialists’ Association and the Lithuanian Association of Public Relations Agencies. It is a conference-awards combo (speakers in the morning, shortlisted projects and awards ceremony in the afternoon/evening) so […]
Social media and political communication in #posttruth times
One November evening (Nov 14, discount 2016) I had the pleasure to be part of an EACD Forum expert panel discussing the then recent results of the US presidential elections and their similarities with other elections in Europe and beyond. The video of the entire panel discussion is here. Happy watching:
I have been researching and writing quite actively about storytelling in the past months. What has started with my moderating the Play Video Conference last year and continued with a masterclass given at the European Communication Summit, anesthetist  has prompted by my collaboration with Dr Camelia Crisan from the Progress Foundation on the CSR Corporate […]
An article I recently co-authored with Dr Camelia Crisan, sick executive director of the Progress Foundation in Romania, mind has been published in the Communication Director Magazine. The article is a providing some background information which inspired our recent research project on digital storytelling reflections of corporate volunteering. This has been further elaborated on in […]
Conversation is dead. Repetition and parallel talk rule Twitter.
Masterclass #storytelling as a legitimization tool: just humanize the story! Peer to peer trust @ana_adi #ecs15 pic.twitter.com/wiUbPEWfvm — TamaraGNS (@TamaraGNS) June 25, 2015 UPDATE: The article elaborating on the conference paper has now been published in the Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations. The full reference and link to the FULL article are below. […]
My first participation at the European Communication Summit (#ecs15) has recently concluded. It has been amazing; it brought together more than 600 participants and 80 speakers all working in communication, public relations and public affairs and plenty of examples, ideas, buy reflections and projections all debating the value and impact of “Anticipation and Disruption” (this year’s theme) […]
Conference paper: Visual framing of Romanian migrants
I had the pleasure to collaborate recently with Bianca Cheregi, PhD researcher at the Doctoral School in Communication Sciences from the National University of Political Science and Administrative Studies on a research paper exploring the role news images play in framing Romanian immigrants to the UK and how they construct the social issue of migration, […]
I have just returned from Bucharest where I was invited to share the lessons I learned from my consultancy and social media training with SMEs at PR Measurement. Organised by GMP PR, dosage  this was the first conference in Romania focused on measurement of public relations campaigns and outputs. It was also the first conference aiming […]
#playconf2015 – reflections on the state of video communication
Quadriga University was the host of the 2nd Video Communication International Conference (Play)Â on the 21st and 22nd of May and I had the pleasure of moderating it for the two days. Although I have moderated academic conference sessions before, order this was the first time I have moderated an entire conference. The line up was […]
The International Conference on Digital Culture, ailment Communication and Society organized by the Cyberspace Working Group of the Faculty of Communication at the University San Jorge in Zaragoza and my participation as keynote speaker and panelist has been extensively covered in local media and blogs. Here is a list: El Dia Aragon Digital El Periodico […]
Keynote – Digital Culture, Communication & Society
On the 16th and 17th of March, ampoule I had the pleasure of traveling to Zaragoza to join the International Conference on Digital Culture, pharmacy Communication & Society organized by the Cyberspace Working Group of the Faculty of Communication at the University San Jorge. The event was well covered, the local media and journalism students […]
Social media monitoring tools in higher education marketing
Nathaniel Hobby and I delivered a conference paper in November 2013 at the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, dosage organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. The Conference proceedings have been now published and our full paper is included in them. The summary of the paper and the powerpoint are here.
Social media monitoring tools in higher education – a conference paper
Last week has been extremely busy with travels, prescription work, visit this site meetings and presentations both in Asia and Europe. It started with a lengthy journey to Thailand and a much expected participation in the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, advice organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. It has been […]
The Dorset Coast Forum took place in Poole on the 14th of November. Desribed as a strategic partnership, pestilence the Forum brings together in a yearly event many local and national coastal and marine organizations to discuss long-term broad scale issues facing the Dorset coast and its inshore waters. Social media was on this […]
I have recently returned from MediAsia 2012, an annual conference dedicated to media studies, held every year in Osaka, Japan. Organized by IAFOR, one of Asia’s think tanks, the conference gathered more than 120 participants from over 20 countries in the world, many of them from North America, Asia and Europe. The keynote, offered this […]
MediAsia 2012 – Pfizer’s social media uses in Europe
I have recently returned from MediAsia 2012, prosthesis an annual conference dedicated to media studies, held every year in Osaka, Japan. Organized by IAFOR, one of Asia’s think tanks, the conference gathered more than 120 participants from over 20 countries in the world, many of them from North America, Asia and Europe. The keynote, […]
I had the opportunity and pleasure to present part of my work with and on social media in academia at this year’s Media Education Summit organized by The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP). Based on my upcoming book chapter “Social Media Audit and Analytics: Exercises for Marketing and Public Relations Courses”, web […]
The Institute of Internal Communication has their Super Thursday on the 13th of November: launching the Communicator of the Year, illness celebrating the ICon Awards, FEIEA Grand Prix and Under 30s all interupted and supported by an Insight Seminar. My talk on social media and internal cross-cultural communication aimed to challenge current practices while […]
Creating a social media daily routine #engagingbmth
Including monitoring, resuscitator measurement and analytics Here’s my prezintation from yesterday’s talk given at Engaging the Public event organized by the Media School of Bournemouth University.
Yesterday has been filled of very interesting presentations from my colleagues and equally engaging and challenging questions from our guests.You can find the white paper Darren Lilleker and I wrote in the “Getting the message out” post, capsule and my presentation on creating a social media daily routine here. Here’s a short review of […]
Getting the message out – a social media daily routine with metrics and analytics included
Today I am at the Executive Business Centre at Bournemouth University holding an event about politics and public engagement called “Engaging the Public: putting the people back into democracy”. The talks, rx cure inspired by our research and consultancy practice, check will introduce a wide range of ideas from understanding the political consumer to […]
A historical study of the evolution of the definition and rules regulating media presence at the Olympics in the Olympic Charter from 1908 to 2011 – a conference paper presented at I Congress on History and Sport, anemia May 31-June 1, steroids 2012, Lisbon, Portugal – On the 1st of June, I had the […]
UPDATE: NOW WITH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE TALK Organized by the FEIEA Academy (March 29, impotent 2012) I find myself speaking quite often about social media. Whether it is as part of the Digital Communication Strategies course I teach at Bournemouth University, artificial the New Media and Branding courses I am to teach […]
Keynote – DICID 9th Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue
During the past days I had the honor to offer the keynote address opening the thematic part of the 9th Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue organized by the Doha International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) and sponsored by the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It has been an event that I have been waiting to happen for […]
Research at the confluence of business and academia
This Saturday (October 15) I had the opportunity to participate to my first conference in Bahrain: 1st Tripartite Business Research Conference. Organized by the AMA International University-Bahrain, prescription the conference focused on government, industry and academia working together for better quality of live through research. The invited speakers at the conference reflected the theme in the sense […]
New Media. New Games. Lessons from the Beijing Olympics for #media2012
an unconference talk covering 3 stories: of access, viagra of media and of cultural exchange New media. New games. Lessons from Beijing View more presentations from Ana ADI. On the 4th of October I was invited to speak about my Beijing Olympics experience and research at the launch of #media2012 blueprint for the London Olympics, during Abandon […]
MeCCSA-PGN: UK media framing of the Beijing 2008 Olympics
Last week I have delivered my last conference presentation for this academic year and conference season. It’s been a busy year, recipe the MeCCSA paper being in fact my 4th for this year (after 2 in Vancouver and 1 in the US at the Power of Sport Summit). There are two more presentations scheduled for […]
ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Innovation and New Media
Even before I was accepted to deliver a presentation as part of the works of the summit, hygiene Eli A. Wolff and I have been in touch discussing on several occasions my views on the need of making events of the scope and role of the ISDPA summit available to people who for several reasons, […]
The Summit These days Boston, search MA (USA) is the home of the ISDPA 2010 Power of Sport Summit where practitioners, nurse researchers, activists, advocates, educators, policy makers and academics work together to define and address current and emerging issues involving the intersection of sport and social change. The works of the summit combine panel discussions with […]
On February 19th, adiposity together with my supervisor Andy Miah and my PhD colleague Jennifer Jones, thumb I have attended the 3rd International Sport Business Symposium organized by UBC and the Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz.  The symposium brought olympic academics, IOC members and sports practitioners in the same room enabling a fruitful conversation after each […]
On the 16th of February, pulmonologist my PhD Colleague Jennifer Jones and I were invited in our quality of staff writers of Culture @ the Olympics to join an International Journalism Panel on CKNW News Talk Radio here in Vancouver  discussing how journalists from across the world are covering the Olympics.We joined Jill Bennett and […]
Last week I was in Coventry, gynecologist UK, to present a paper at Play the Game 2009, one of the biggest communication conferences on sport and society, now at its 6th edition. It was a busy conference with many speakers coming from a very wide range of fields and institutions, starting from sports journalism up […]
IOCFSPD – report of rapporteurs and closing session
 The report is based on the presentations, information pills speeches and keynote addresses given yesterday and today. Lord Colin Moynihan is now reading some ideas from Jacques Rogge’s, IOC President, address from yesterday and it looks like he’ll continue to summarize the presentations of yesterday, or at lest that he was made responsible to […]
Byron Peacock, a friend of mine and master’s student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development studies in Geneva gave me this in reaction to Mr Verbruggen intervention and speech earlier this morning. I am inserting here, without any changes, his comment and question. I have to say though, that due to Mr. Verburuggen’s […]
Two keynote addresses and three presentations scheduled, click one of which being introduced the last minute. The session starts with Hein Verbruggen, pharmacy President of the General Association of International Sports Federations and former Chairman of the Coordination of the Coordination Commission of the Beijing Olympic Games. He started speaking about legacy part of the […]
The session’s presentations are brought together but an interest into and relevancy to promotion of education and healthy life-styles through sport. Frankie Fredericks, surgeon Chairman of the IOCs Athletes’ Commission, had the keynote address. He shared a lot of his personal experiences stressing the importance of sport as a “school for friendship, solidarity, fair-play”. VANOC […]
IOCFSPD – Session 3 -keynote address and presentations
Lamine Diack, health system President of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) shared his personal experience with sport in his keynote address. General Lassana Palenfo, IOC Member, Member of the IOC International Relations Commission, gives the first presentation, worried that the minutes he has are not enough for a large topic like the one […]
First presentation is given by Brigadier General Giovanni Gola, order President of the International Military Sports Council (CISM). He’s giving a historical review of the relationship between sports and the military and brings plenty of examples from the Military World Games (some editions took place in Croatia and India). After CISM has received UN military […]
This is the first ever Forum on Sport, ambulance Peace and Development organized by the IOC today and tomorrow (May 7-8) in an attempt to bring together experts from the fields of sports, education, media and much more whose insights from the event will be taken later this year to the Olympic Cogress in Copenhagen. […]
International Forum on Sport, Peace and Development – Session 1
This is the first ever Forum on Sport, ambulance Peace and Development organized by the IOC today and tomorrow (May 7-8) in an attempt to bring together experts from the fields of sports, education, media and much more whose insights from the event will be taken later this year to the Olympic Cogress in Copenhagen. […]
I have started writing my thesis… or at least organizing the literature review, clinic conference papers and other presentations that I’ve delivered during the last university year into a more logical, cure structured document. It is not at all a simple task since I have to revisit many of the articles I’ve once read as […]
This summer was full. I was the lucky UK representative at the International Olympic Academy, implant a one month seminar held in Olympia, more about Greece on Olympic topics ranging from the Ancient Olympics, bronchitis to ethics, human rights and marketing. I have particularly enjoyed the marketing and ethics presentations given by Dr Benoit Seguin […]
Conference: "Changes and Challenges. China Media Today"
This summer I was accepted to present at two conferences: one in London and one in Sussex. While I could not honor the one organized by MeCCSA conference abstract due to scheduling incompatibilities (I have to be in Greece, pharm attending the International Olympic Academy at that time) I just came back from the other […]
Here are some snapshots from the NOA presentation. As mentioned before it was a great opportunity to make my research known to a highly interesting and interested group. Therefore, ascariasis many thanks to the BOA team for inviting me! Â Â Â
Going at conferences is an important and integral part of a PhD’s academic pursuit, shop quest and knowledge as well as of recognition. I was very lucky to be invited, order only 5 months after starting my programme and my research, symptoms to give a presentation at the National Olympic Academy in London. I was […]
