photo courtesy of Josh Hallett
What better way to capture the real-time feeling of a room you can’t be in, than to grab the Twitters of your friends who can. We checked a few to see what they were writing about Karen Hughes, lunch keynoter at the 2007 PRSA conference in Philly this week. Apparently she
- I have the world’s best client - America!
- Public relations need to be in on making the cars, not just selling the lemons
- The single most important thing we can do to improve perceptions is to bring them to US and let them decide for themselves
- Providing compassion overseas makes a difference, expand and highlight life-saving work
- Send programs to teach English, the current language of business, gives skill to improve their prospects
- Does the Statue of Liberty still face out? The answer needs to be yes!
And some impressions:
- Hughes is talking about what SecState is doing to communicate a friendly America. how about the substance. of U.S policy?
- Communications like this was once called propaganda. Sorry.
October 22, 2007 at 11:11 pm
She got paid for this? A litany of trite cliches.
October 23, 2007 at 11:41 am
[...] the heels of Karen Hughes‘ keynote at PRSA, there are accusations abound that the Pentagon took $500,000 of independent newspaper [...]
November 1, 2007 at 12:29 pm
[...] the murders of 17 Iraqi civilians. If there’s more to this than Hughes having trouble “selling lemons,” the D-Ring blog is on to something and a comparable person at Defense is next. Posted [...]