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Through collaboration with our members, the Global Alliance held the first free truly global educational and training initiative for communications and public relations professionals during this past April and May. This included over 50 educational webinars with thousands of engaged professionals sharing their knowledge and insights from around the world during this unprecedented time.
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 developments, it is with regret, that the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management and Public Relations Institute of New Zealand announce that the World Public Relations Forum scheduled for October 2020 in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand is postponed.
Dear Colleague,
As you will know, the Global Capability Framework is the Global Alliance’s benchmark for how professionals in public relations and communication management perform at their best. It can be used by individuals and groups, such as communication departments and was developed at the request of Association leaders. You told us that your members want such a tool given that their work is increasingly global in scope and reach. You can find the Global Capability Framework on the Global Alliance website here.
The fifth annual Global Communication Report, New Activism, the report from the USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations in partnership with Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management and other Public Relations organisations examines the evolution of activism and its impact on PR. It finds the new generation of activists are younger, more diverse, and more collaborative. They also prefer voting over protesting. Communicators believe that, due to decreasing trust in Government, activism will grow in influence over the next five years, and that “average citizens” will be one of the most influential types of activist. The study also found that what it calls “New Activists” are aligned with PR professionals in the belief that the best strategy for creating long-lasting change is not protesting but voting.
Dublin, Ireland, April 19 2020 - The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management 18th Annual General Meeting was held on Sunday 19 April remotely due to Covid-19 restrictions regarding travel and public gatherings. A candle was lit by the President in solidarity with all those who have lost their lives globally to Covid-19, in support of our frontline workers and colleagues who are directly involved in the battle against the pandemic.
The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management announces the extension of its successful free Education and Training Month from April into May following the phenomenal response from members. This is to fulfill the original aim of the month and ensure that PR professionals around the world have an opportunity to continue their learning and development at a time when normal training has been severely disrupted by COVID-19.
The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communications Management is dedicating April 2020 to a virtual ‘Education & Training Month’ as part of our continuing support of the profession worldwide during the COVID-19 crisis. Continuing education and training in public relations and communications plays a vital role in the services offered by our members worldwide. That is why the Global Alliance is inviting all our members to join in with their own initiatives.
Thank you to all our Global Alliance members and in-turn their members for your participation in our first global Ethics Month during February 2020.
There was an incredible response worldwide with more than 60 countries and thousands of professionals participating across the four weeks making it one of the most comprehensive engagements on world ethics the profession has ever seen.
April’s Global Education and Training month provides a perfect opportunity to ask the basic question: what does a fully capable practitioner look like? The Global Capability Framework is the Global Alliance’s benchmark for how professionals in public relations and communication management perform at their best. It applies to individuals and groups, such as communication departments, and the profession as a whole
Covid-19 knows NO borders, continents, races, faiths or cultures. Together we must continue to unite as one to help and protect all our global citizens. The time is now for our profession individually and collectively as organisations to strengthen and triple our efforts which thousands of communication practitioners have already been engaged in dealing with head-on at the front line of this world pandemic. Please help share this WHO link among family, friends and colleagues - please stay safe.
Justin Green, President Global Alliance
