Public Relations

[close] This group is for people interested in Marketing, Advertising, PR and to say shortly for everyone who is interested in Business topics. there will be monthly challenges for the group members and the group members will try to help each other out with books and all other kinds of materials. at the same time, we will share our knowledge with each other. The group has been created on 18th July 2017 and there aren't any members yet so if you are interested in business and are willing to share your knowledge or receive it from others just join the group

[close] PRSA Philadelphia News Committee reviews of books essential for PR practitioners.

[close] Jacques Ellul cracks open political and sociological commonplaces, destructively and wittily demonstrating how our unthinking acceptance of them encourages hypocrisy, smugness, and mental inertia. Among the stereotypes of thought and speech thus exploded are such phrases as "You can't act without getting your hands dirty," "Work is freedom" and "We must follow the current of history". A certain number of these old saws preside over our daily life. They permit us to understand one another and to swim in the ordinary current of society. They are accepted as so certain that we almost never question them. They serve at once as sufficient explanations for everything and as "clinchers" in too many arguments. Ellul explores the ways in which such clichés mislead us and prevent us from having independent thoughts--and in fact keep us from facing the problems to which they are theoretically addressed. They are our "commonplaces." Just as the nineteenth century brought forth many such commonplaces so our century has been busy creating its own. What Ellul has done is to stand still long enough to look at them carefully, attack them with cool reason, and leave them nakedly exposed. His remarkable caustic fearlessness is at the service of truths that often are cruel, but always are lucid and impassioned. He represents the voice of intelligence, and while doing so is often hilarious and always therapeutic about matters of first importance.

[close] In an effort to embrace learning as a value and challenge ourselves with new ways of thinking, this group is a place where our GCG team can share what they're reading with others along with having thoughtful discussions. Share what books you've read or would like to - anything from leadership to new media and beyond - that you'd like to share with the group.