Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Public Relations Mid-term
- WHAT IS PR?
- Strategic message delivery made possible by a continual process of collecting information from all publics.
- Community, Media, Coporate, Employee, Special,
- HISTORY & GROWTH
- American Revolution-Samuel Adams-Committees of Corespondance
- The Constitution-
speak for what
you believe in
- Press Agentry- P.T.
Barnum-master
publicist with
questionable tactics
- American Industrial Revolution-
Robber Barrons
(corporate)-Muck-rakers(journalists)
- Ivy Lee-honest, acurate, forceful.
Distinguished "press agentry and
"publicity" from Public Relations
- WW1-Creel Committee-Liberty
Loan publicity drives
- 1900 America's first PR
Firm - "The Publicity
Bureau" followed by
others such as Bernay's
- Growth of large institutions
- Heightened media
sophistication
- Heightened public
awareness
- Increasing incidents of
societal change, conflict and
confrontation
- Growth of
globalization
- Dominance of
the internet
and social
media
- COMMUNICATION
- GOALS
- To persuade
- To motivate
- To build mutual
understanding
- To inform
- THEORIES
- 2 step flow (from the
organization to the mass media
to the public)
- Elmo Roper-Concetntric circle (ideas evolve
gradually to the public by travelling through the
concentric circles that are the publics)
- Pat Jackson
- Build awareness
- Develop a latent readiness
- Triggering
event
- Intermediate behaviour
- Behavioral change
- S-E-M-D-R (the source sends an encoded
message to the reciever who decodes it and
takes action)
- Neumann - Spiral of silence (the silent
majority will vote with the minority)
- Constructivism
- Coordinated
management of
meaning
- Grunig-Hunt
- Press agentry/publicity
- Public information
- Two-way asymetric
- Two-way symetric
- WORDS
- Semantics
- Bias
- Stereotypes
- Symbols
- Peer-groups
- PUBLIC OPIONION
- Persuade people to
change their opinion
on an issue, product
or service
- Crystallize uninformed or
undeveloped opinions
- Reinforce existing opinions
- MOTIVATING
- Elaboration likelihood
model (make arguments
strong, logical and
RELEVANT to the person
you are motivating)
- Maslow - heirarchy - needs must
be satisfied in order
- PERSUADING
- Systematic (a person has carefully
considered the argument - acrtively,
creatively and alertly)
- Heuristic (a person has skimmed the
surface of the problem or issue)
- Facts, Emotions, Personalizing, Appealing to 'you'
- INFLUENCING
- Important events
sensitize public opinion
- Events are more powerful than words
- At critical times - people are more
sensitive to the adequacy of their
leadership
- Self-interest trumps others' interest
- Opinions on goals are easy to form.
Opinions on meathods to reach
goals are more complicated.
- Democracy + Education + Open access to info = common
sense type of public opinion
- DANGER?
- Union strikes
- Taking $ from corporations
- Boycotts
- BONUS?!
- Influence legislation
- Garner campaign support
- Unify a nation
- MANAGEMENT
- A bounary role (PR function on
the edge of the organization as a
liason)
- PR acts as the corporate concious
- Reports to the CEO
- Conceptualizing the Plan
- Environment
- Business Objectives
- Public relations objectives & strategies
- Public relations programs
- PR Management Process
- Defining the problem or opportunity
- Programming (formal planning - defining publics ,
strategies, tactics & goals)
- Action (in this case - communication)
- Evaluation (what worked, what didn't - how to improve)
- Internal PR vs.
- PR Firms
- Whats in a name?
- Corporate Communications
- Reputation Management
- ETHICS
- PSRA Member Code of Ethics
- Advocacy
- Honesty
- Expertise
- Independence
- Loyalty
- Fairness
- Corporate Codes of Conduct
- to increase public confidence
- to stem the tide of regulation
- to improve internal operations
- to respond to transgressions
- Corporate Social Responsibilty
- corporate way of life
- Ethics in Government
- Ethics in Journalism
- Ethics in Public Relations
- THE LAW
- 1st Amendment
- defending 1st
amendment
important for
PR
professionals
- Defamation Law
- libel - a printed
falsehood
- slander - an
oral
falsehood
- Insider Training
- know the laws
that govern your
industry
- Disclosure Law
- Ethics Law
- Fed.
regulation of
lobbying act
of 1946
- Copyright Law
- protects writers
with fixed
work-permanent
- Internet Law
- Censorship
- COPA 1998-2009
- Intellectual Property
- eg. Napster
- Cybersquatting
- taking/using
domain names
in bad faith
- E-Fraud
- same as regular fraud
- Litigation Law
- Learn the process
- Develop a message strategy
- Settle fast
- Anticipate high-profile variables
- Keep the focus positive
- Try settling again
- Fight nicely