How can you motivate people to change their behaviour especially when it has become daily routine? That is for instance taking the escalator instead of the stairs, leaving waste lying around on the park bench instead of throwing it in a bin or breaking the speed limit on the way to work since you are [...]
15 years ago the American journalist and university lecturer Joshua Quittner published his idea of a ‘way new journalism’ within a mere 7,000 signs. What must have seemed like a glimpse into the crystal ball of online journalism at the time, reads like a quite visionary manifest today. In his essay published in 1995, Quittner [...]
Der Deutsche Rat für Public Relations, kurz DRPR, hat in seiner Funktion als oberster Aufseher und Hüter über die Einhaltung von Selbstverpflichtungen wie dem Code de Lisbonne eine neue Richtlinie zu ‘PR in digitalen Medien und Netzwerken’ herausgegeben. Nachdem schon lange vor der Veröffentlichung heiß über das Papier diskutiert worden war, kann es nun auch [...]
180.000 visitors in the exhibition halls in Berlin – that is a record. Now that the world’s largest travel exhibition came to its close on Sunday, the time has come for us to take stock. knoefler-journalist has presented itself for the very first time to the public at large. Based on our services for our [...]
Social media has become a global phenomenon within a very short period of time. Twitter, Facebook and other tools are said to offer possibilities which eluded traditional journalism, which is considered the unofficial ‘fourth power’ in democratic countries after all. Facebook can help to win presidential elections and Twitters promotes the underground struggle against theocratic [...]
Online communication in general and communication in social media in specific have increasingly come to the fore of public relations lately. What are the factors which promise PR to be successful in the social network? Which behaviour is advisable for companies, non-profit organisations or politicians? One frequently cited prerequisite of success is ‘authenticity’. However, this [...]
On 25th February at 6 pm our long-standing partner ‘das modular’ is inviting guests to its in-house exhibition ‘Pieps-Schau’. Do not be misled by the title! It may sound similar to peep show but instead ‘bare facts’, the event management pros are staging a one-of-a-kind firework of presentations – on the topic of Twitter among [...]
More than 100 tourism experts from all fields came together in Eichstätt last weekend to discuss current trends and topics which move the industry. At the 3rd Tourism Barcamp, organized by Prof. Dr. Hans Hopfinger (University of Eichstätt) and the three bright minds of Tourismuszukunft, an e-tourism institute, provocative discussions were welcome in order to [...]
With more and more frequency we are confronted with the statement that in times of social media, public and media relations have changed completely. Some even prophesy the death of traditional public relations facing the increasing proliferation of social media tools. Ten, five or even only two years ago PR used to make use of [...]
It is not only in the communication industry but in practically all areas that Twitter is a dominating topic right now. Even some dyed-in-the-wool Internet users did not expect the 140-character-long messages to be such a resounding success (even though the concept is quite similar to the SMS, the triumph of which would not be [...]
