http://www.prmatters.co.nz fresh thinking - influential communication Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:27:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/the-spirit-of-communicating/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/the-spirit-of-communicating/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:25:03 +0000 Paul http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=1346 St Matthew-in-the-City sees the Christmas season as an opportunity to spark thought and conversation in the community.  They’ve put up their Christmas billboard portraying Mary, Jesus’ mother, looking at a home pregnancy test kit revealing that she is pregnant. In much less dramatic ways, on one level many of us use the Christmas season to [...]

]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/the-spirit-of-communicating/feed/ 0 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/food-for-the-nation/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/food-for-the-nation/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:09 +0000 Jane Dodd http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=1329 During the next four weeks New Zealanders’ combined spending on food, beverages and other grocery items is likely to once again break records.  Even though purse strings are tighter, people will over-compensate for fear of being caught short. Budget pressures aside, we forget how fortunate we are to have access to such an impressive choice [...]

]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/food-for-the-nation/feed/ 0 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/the-news-truce/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/the-news-truce/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:51:48 +0000 Network Team http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=219 In Ypres, 1914 a Christmas Eve ceasefire became the stuff of yuletide legend. The truce began when German troops decorated their trenches, the soldiers placed candles on trees and sang Christmas carols. Not to be outdone British troops responded singing their own carols back in English. In no time the two sides were shouting greetings [...]

]]> http://www.prmatters.co.nz/the-news-truce/feed/ 0 http://www.prmatters.co.nz/don%e2%80%99t-rush-the-credits/ http://www.prmatters.co.nz/don%e2%80%99t-rush-the-credits/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:45:55 +0000 Paul http://www.prmatters.co.nz/?p=72 There are at least a couple of times during the year when the efforts of staff are formally acknowledged.  If yours is an organisation that has an annual report you will be familiar with the one or two lines in the chairman’s or chief executive’s report where staff are thanked for their contributions to the [...]

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