Cluetrain and beyond for corporate communications and public relations

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STUART BRUCE CLUETRAIN AND BEYOND Public Relations and New Media Post-graduate MA | business | public relations | marketing | communications @stuartbruce

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More than 10 years on what are the current implications of The Cluetrain Manifesto for corporate communications and public relations? Created for a lecture to post-graduate MA communications, public relations, marketing and business students at Leeds Metropolitan University.

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  • 1. CLUETRAIN AND BEYONDPublic Relations and New MediaPost-graduate MA | business | public relations | marketing | communicationsSTUART BRUCE@stuartbruce
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  • 3. Stuart Bruce@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 4. PUBLIC RELATIONSthe future in 2013 and beyond
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  • 6. It is difficult, indeeddangerous, to underestimate the huge changes this revolution will bring or the power of developing technologies to build and destroy not just companies, but whole countries.@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 7. He wasnt wrongRupert Murdoch @stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz Arab Spring
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  • 9. THE CLUETRAINMANIFESTOThe End of Business As UsualRick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and DavidWeinberger
  • 10. Published 1999 (in print 2000) a set of 95 theses organized and put forward as a manifesto, or call to action, for all businesses operating within what is suggested to be a newly-connected marketplace. The ideas put forward within the manifesto aim to examine the impact of the Internet on both markets (consumers) and organizations. In addition, as both consumers and organizations are able to utilize theInternet and Intranets to establish a previously unavailablelevel of communication both within and between these two groups, the manifesto suggests that changes will be required from organizations as they respond to the new marketplace environment. Wikipedia (February, 2013)@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 11. 95 theses16: Markets are Conversations7: Hyperlinks Subvert Hierarchy813: Connection between the new markets andcompanies14 25: Organizations entering the marketplace2640: Marketing and Organizational Response4152: Intranets and the impact to organization controland structure5371: Connecting the Internet marketplace withcorporate Intranets7295: New Market Expectations@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 12. Summarised by the authors A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarterand getting smarter faster than most companies.@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 13. Stuarts summary How the internet actually is People talking to each other, rather than what business thinks it is people buying@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 14. Theses No 26 (out of 95) Public Relations does not relate to the public.Companies are deeply afraid of their markets@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 15. Definitions of public relations Public relations is about reputation - the result of what you do, what you say and what others say about you. Public relations is the discipline which looks after reputation, with the aim of earning understanding and support and influencing opinion and behaviour. It is the planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between an organisation and its publics. Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) "Public relations is a management function whichtabulates public attitudes, defines the policies, procedures and interest of an organization followed by executing a program of action to earn public understanding and acceptance. Edward Bernays@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 16. Definitions of public relations Public relations is about reputation - the result of what you do, what you say and what others say about you. Public relations is the discipline which looks after reputation, with the aim of earning understanding and support and influencing opinion and behaviour. It is the planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between an organisation and its publics. Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) "Public relations is a management function whichtabulates public attitudes, defines the policies, procedures and interest of an organization followed by executing a program of action to earn public understanding and acceptance. Edward Bernays@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 17. Definitions of public relations Public relations is about reputation - the result of what you do, what you say and what others say about you. Public relations is the discipline which looks after reputation, with the aim of earning understanding and support and influencing opinion and behaviour. It is the planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between an organisation and its publics. Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) "Public relations is a management function whichtabulates public attitudes, defines the policies, procedures and interest of an organization followed by executing a program of action to earn public understanding and acceptance. Edward Bernays@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 18. Learning to speak like a human isnt a parlour trick. Cluetrain Manifesto, 20th Century@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
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  • 20. The Cluetrain Manifesto asks the right questions, but does it provide the right answers?@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 21. Is there a better way? Classic Cluetrain: Allow every employee to blog or use social media Cluetrain reality: Many employees are using social media personally, some of them need to do it officially@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 22. IS THERE A FUTURE FORPR?
  • 23. Alistair CampbellSpeed Communications launch of Brand Anarchy by Stephen Waddington and Steve Earl@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 24. Hugh MacLeod@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 25. Holmes Report: Global PR Summit 2012A recent Forrester Research, presented at the Global PRSummit in Miami in October 2012 says the PR agency ofthe future will: Think less about channels Develop a holistic approach Integrate channels and services Help drive both brands and corporate reputation@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 26. Holmes Report: Global PR Summit 2012During the Holmes Global PR Summit Marc Pritchard,Global Marketing and Brand Building Officer for Proctorand Gamble (P&G) invited PR companies to: take the leadership role the discipline deserves in the Conversation Age@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 27. Is the public relations profession ready?The Forrester Research shows that clients give low marksto PR firms, when it comes to delivering big, strategicideas, solidly grounded in insights and foresights. Whether on the consumer PR side, or on the corporate one, its first of all about understanding whats in peoples mind, where the society goes@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 28. Big trends for public relations in 2013 Search Mobile Video Influence Data Content@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 29. Pedagogy: learning by doing@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 30. DAVOS 2013World Communication Forum
  • 31. World Communication Forum, Davos Old PR v New PR Global v. local Search Content Viral change Advocacy@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 32. Dr Leandro Herrero, Viral Change@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz
  • 33. Dr Leandro Herrero, Viral Change Ambassadors are too passive, you want activists@stuartbruce stuartbruce.biz