Bob Conrad | conradcommunications@gmail.com | 227 posts
I would like to thank Bruce Hurwitz for the nice interview yesterday. I could talk about my dissertation for a long time, and he was kind enough to chat me at length about it for Blogtalkradio. The complete interview is below. Listen to internet radio with Bruce Hurwitz on Blog Talk Radio
September 26, 2011
The citizen and media-friendly website, Public Agenda, has handy guides for understanding surveys, polls and the nuances that go into what constitutes scientific polling. This guide for journalists has 20 questions that should be asked about surveys. Among them is this: How were (the survey participants) chosen? Amazingly, a randomly sampled population means that only about [...]
September 15, 2011
The Public Relations Society of America promised in May that a final report of its 2011 member survey would be made available to its membership “later this summer.” But when results of the survey were announced recently by PRSA President and CEO Rosanna Fiske, what was presented was her version of the survey results. The [...]
September 1, 2011
It took a bit of haggling, but PRSA posted this week its member-satisfaction survey results for 2011. After PRSA CEO and Chair Rosanna Fiske, APR blogged about the results, an obvious question was raised by myself and Alice Irvan, APR, PRC: Where are the actual results? We wanted to see for ourselves what the member [...]
July 8, 2011
Traditional news versus social media: What’s different? Picking a dissertation topic is not for the faint of heart or the unprepared. Narrowing an issue into components and sub-components involves, first, picking a topic, then exploring what others have researched in that area and, finally, finding your own niche. Crisis communications, social media and higher-education leadership [...]
October 19, 2011