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CIPR 60th Anniversary Annual Conference and 5th World PR Conference & Festival

Hosted by the CIPR and in London for the first time on Monday 23 & Tuesday 24 June, at the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane. This exciting and challenging two-day conference will bring together PR practitioners from across the globe to share best practice, exchange ideas and discuss common concerns.

Special discounts available – see what you can save:

- Discounts for CIPR and Global Alliance members
- Limited number of 50 discounted places for full-time students – £100 per day!
- Ticket savings of up to £450 for full-time Academics

The programme:

A mix of interactive workshops and main conference sessions delivered by 27 expert speakers, entitled ‘Best Practice in Public Relations’, this event will examine the issues tackled globally by PR practitioners today. 

Sessions covered include:

·         Communicating in London: The world's most diverse city – Luke Blair MCIPR, Director, London Communications Agency 

·         How do cities attract investment: The reputation issues that count – Michael Hayman FCIPR, Chief Executive, The Communication Group UK

·         Influencing attitudes to disability: Using PR to promote equality and social inclusion – Agnes Fletcher MCIPR, Specialist in Disability Communications

·         How Turin won and has benefited from the 2006 Olympics – Anna Martina, Communications Director, City of Turin 

·         Country reputation: The World Bank programme – Paul Mitchell, Manager, World Bank Development Communication Division, Washington DC 

For further information including speaker names, costs and the range of discounts on offer, please visit the CIPR website at www.cipr.co.uk/wprf08 

Fresh season…Fresh trainings…Fresh ideas!

This must be one of the busier weeks for CIPR’s popular Freshly Squeezed breakfast briefings series - we ran three sessions, namely ‘Celebrity brands’ (London), ‘Impressive press releases’ (Scotland) and ‘Loosen tight deadlines’ (London) all in one week!

With 24 sessions organised in London and 8 in Scotland this year, there is no doubt that the Freshly Squeezed programme is gaining popularity (and not just in London and Scotland). We are currently exploring the feasibility of organising this programme in other regions after we have received some indication of interests from our members. So before you know it, you may see a Freshly Squeezed session come to your region very soon.

The idea of having this series of breakfast briefing is to allow time-conscious PR practitioners to take an hour out in the morning to catch up on topical issues or for some, to take stock of what they are doing and should do. I chanced upon this interesting website,  http://if.psfk.com/if/if_by_discipline/public_relations/ that shares creative PR campaign examples and tips. This is particularly useful for those in the PR or communications industry, as they have to constantly come up with new angles, stories and campaigns that are newsworthy.

Summer is almost here and I am sure this is the best chance for you to get out of the office for some fresh air and training (and fresh ideas of course!). Who knows, you might benefit from the networking opportunity with delegates from various PR sectors and clinch a potential deal from there. Check out and book the up-coming sessions on reputation management, audience segmentation and green issues at www.cipr.co.uk/fresh

Why not also Inject a ‘boost’ of creative juice to your brain at the half-day highly practical ‘Creativity work-out’ Masterclass on 16 June. www.cipr.co.uk/masterclass 

If you still find it difficult to find time to get out of office, you can trust our resourceful Training Development team at the CIPR to tailor a training programme that will bring the fresh ideas you need, right to your doorstep. Email JankaS@cipr.co.uk to find out more.

For further information on training and development, please visit www.cipr.co.uk/training

Choo-Li Tan, Training Development Officer