Archive for the ‘PR’s Top 50 Thought Leaders’ Category

PR Thought Leader Sabrina Horn

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Sabrina Horn, President & CEO of Horn Group, a leading digital communications agency, discusses some of the initiatives she is undertaking at her company, the integration of PR into a more general communications framework and the role that web video plays in her organization.

“Because of the internet, PR has to become more of a general purpose communications visual medium.”

“We are in the business of helping companies deal with change and we don’t deal with change very well ourselves sometimes. And so I think as an industry we have to really get ourselves around how PR is changing.”

“You’re talking about two kinds of business models. An interactive model, which is more projects based and the PR business model, which is more retainer  based. And putting those two under the same roof is tricky.”

“We see facebook, we see myspace. These are horizontal applications for social networks but, I think we are going to see a massive proliferation of niche, vertically made social networks for specific tribes and groups.”

Horn Group 

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PR Thought Leader Richard Edelman

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Richard Edelman, President & CEO of Edelman, the world’s largest independent Public Relations firm, discusses the future or PR.

Richard Edelman’s Three Guiding Principles of PR:

“1. We have to be a global enterprise. So we’ve made money in the United States and have consistently invested it outside so today we have fifty-one offices around the world.”

“2. Public relations is much more than media relations, in fact it’s about stakeholder connection.”

“3. Trust and transparency. We have to behave in a way so that stakeholders can count on our material as trustworthy and accurate.”

Edelman

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