Questions for Ray Kotcher, PRSA Board 'Counsel'
Thu, Oct. 19, 2017
By Jack O'Dwyer
We have questions for Ketchum’s Ray Kotcher, permanent “senior counsel” to PRSA’s board and another indication of Omnicom/Ketchum’s influence on the Society.
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We have questions for Ketchum’s Ray Kotcher, permanent “senior counsel” to PRSA’s board and another indication of Omnicom/Ketchum’s influence on the Society.
The PRSA Oregon Chapter, saying “Hell No!” to proposals of the Society’s national board, shames silent PRSA/NY which is in collusion with national.
PRSA staff’s aversion to national conferences in New York (one in past 25 years) has cost upwards of $4.5 million in the past ten years.
Jay Baer, who touts the importance of customer service, told PRSA Oct. 10 that word-of-mouth is the key to business success.
The PRSA conference in Boston ended yesterday but a blackout continues on what happened at the Assembly Saturday, Oct. 7.
Opposition by PRSA members stopped bylaw proposals that would have increased board power to amend bylaws and which would have eliminated district representation on the board.
Removal of PRSA board minutes from the Society’s website “flies in the face of multiple Code provisions” calling for the “free flow of information,” former board member Mary Beth West said in an email to the board.
Member opposition yesterday stopped PRSA bylaw proposals that would have greatly increased board power to amend bylaws and which would have eliminated district representation on the board.
PRSA/New York has joined national PRSA’s press blackout of today’s Assembly by refusing to supply any coverage of the meeting.
The dangers of microwave radiation from cellphones, cell towers, and routers in offices should be on the program of the PRSA national conference starting tomorrow. But it isn’t.
The PR industry needs “advocates who can communicate with the media and general public,” said Francis Ingham, director general, PR Consultants Assn., London.
The proposal to substitute “communications” for “PR” in most places in the PRSA bylaws at the Oct. 8 Assembly is a blow not only to PR but to PR and communications courses offered by colleges.
PRSA bylaw proposal 1702, changing “PR” to “communications” in “most locations,” has touched off a furious debate on the Society’s website.
PRSA’s 2016 audit showed revenues of $11,363,861, a decline from $11,600,526 in 2015, and from $11,426,867 in 2006. Operating loss was $185,226.
Debra Peterson, PR head of CenturyLink, which faces fraud charges from eight states that could cost it up to $12 billion, has been nominated as chair-elect of PRSA for 2018.
PRSA’s mishandling of the news of the sudden death of PRSA VP-PR Arthur Yann in 2013 shows why the Institute for PR should disassociate itself from the Society.
The expected nomination of CenturyLink’s Debra Peterson as chair-elect of PRSA Saturday will focus attention of its 21,000 members and others on abuses of her employer and the other telecoms.
Debra Peterson, sole candidate for 2018 chair-elect of PRSA, should withdraw in the light of fraud charges vs. employer CenturyLink and PRSA’s record of abusive practices.
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