Public Affairs

U.S. Diplomat Peter Van Buren Speaks About American Public Diplomacy

John Brown | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Public Diplomacy, Alec Ross, Iraq, Public Affairs, Foreign Service, Cold War, Facebook, Voice of America, Twitter, Committee on Public Information, Propaganda, PETER VAN BUREN, United States Information Agency, State Department, Edward R. Murrow, Bbg, Haditha Massacre, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, World News
John Brown

"Any communications strategy plays second to reality. So as long as deaths from misplaced drone attacks, atrocities by soldiers and videos of Abu Ghraib exist, you are not going to fool anyone regardless of how many tweets you send out."

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Gov 1.0 and Powerful Happenings

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gov 2.0, Camp Obama, South Central LA, Politics, Media, Congress, Public Affairs, Karen Bass, Government 2.0, California Assembly, Government, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Racial Politics, Citizens, Race, Civics, People, Tv, Camp Karen, Gov 3.0, Gov 1.0, Politics News
Alan W. Silberberg

We need more "Camp Karen" types of activities in all of our civic spaces. In bringing dignity back to politics, we all grow as a people.

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Deputy Mayor Leaving City For Citi

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Skyler, Edward Skyler, Mayor Bloomberg, Ed Skyler Citigroup, Michael Bloomberg, New York City Hall, Public Affairs, New York City, New York, New York News

NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- Citigroup Inc. on Tuesday named a New York City deputy mayor as the head of its global public affairs. In the newly ...

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Get It Right - Facts Matter

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Affairs, Healthcare Reform, Rick Shenkman, Gary Shapiro, Vote iQ, Politics News
Mike Smith

CEA's Shapiro Tells Press Club PR audience to provide just the facts by Mike Smith Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association (...

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Tiger Woods' Apology VIDEO & Best Affair Apologies Ever

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, Tiger Woods Statement, Public Affairs, Affairs, Tiger Woods Press Conference, Public Apologies, Tiger Woods News Conference, Tiger Woods, Affair Apologies, Tiger Woods Video, Tiger Woods Apology, Best Apologies of All Time, Tiger Woods Apology Video, Sports News

It happens to the best of us-- you make "transgressions," your spouse finds out, you have to apologize. Only for most of us, the apology isn't broadc...

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Strategic Communications and the Graveyard of Empires

John Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychological Warfare, Aghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Propaganda, 9/11, Strategic Communications, Public Affairs, Michael Mullen, Karzai, Public Diplomacy, World News
John Brown

A conflict between Richard Holbrooke and Admiral Michael Mullen over public diplomacy in Afghanistan could be no more than the usual Washington tempest in a teapot. Or it might reflect a major problem.

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