July 2008 - Excerpts from 5th World PR Conference, London

5th World PR Conference was held at London on 23rd and 24th June 2008 hosted by Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR). Your ezine PR-e-Sense was the Media Partner for the above International Event.

July 2008 issue of PR-e-Sense carries few excerpts from the presentations made during the conference.

July issue of ezine may be downloaded from the following link
http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0708.pdf

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Dr Abdul Kalam launches ezine's cartoon character PRince

Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense carries cartoons from the month of April 2008. The Editorial Board decided to create a new cartoon character, an youth who will be starting his journey from the July 2008 issue onwards. The name 'PRince' was suggested by Ms Uma, one of the communication professionals and a member of prpoint group and this name was accepted by all. The cartoon character is named as PRince. Mr Triambak Sharma, Editor, Cartoon Watch, the only cartoon magazine of India has been contributing cartoons every month for the ezine. He created the PRince, who will be featured in all the future cartoons.

Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, former President of India launched this new cartoon character on 24th July 2008 during his visit to Chennai in the presence of few young professionals. As a token of the launch, he also put his signature on the new cartoon character PRince, who will be moving around from July 2008 onwards. In the picture, Dr Abdul Kalam is seen signing on the cartoon. K. Srinivasan, Editor-in-Chief is looking on.

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June 2008 - International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)

June 2008 issue of our ezine features International Associatin of Business Communicators, who functions in more than 70 countries through 100 plus chapters. Mr Todd Hattori, Chair 2007-08 is the Guest Editor of this issue. You may download the ezine in pf format (410 k) from the following link

http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0608.pdf

Please scroll below to listen to their podcast interviews:

Podcast of Todd Hattori, Chair 2007-08

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You can also listen to this podcast from the following link
http://www.podbazaar.com/permalink/144115188075857192

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Podcast of Ms Julie Freeman, President, IABC

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May 2008 - PR online resources

Image Management and PR Point Groups moderated by Prime Point Foundation are completing successful 9 years in June and entering 10th year. To coincide with this, May 2008 issue of Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense focusses on 'PR online Resources'.

In this issue, we have listed out many of the useful and active online resources. This ezine will serve as a hand book for all the PR professionals and students.

From this issue, we have also introduced 'Health Tips' for the benefit of youngsters. In this issue, we are dealing with 'Computer Vision Syndrome'. We have included tips for protecting the eyes when people are working in the computers for a long time.

This ezine may be downloaded from the following link ( pdf 425 k)

http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0508.pdf

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Apr 2008 - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

April 2008 issue of our ezine deals with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This issue is Guest Edited by Mr S Narendra, Former Information Advisor to Indian Prime Ministers. We are carrying exclusive views from eminent persons, who have rich experience in CSR initiatives. The ezine in pdf format (460 k) may be downloaded from
http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0408.pdf

Please also listen to the podcast interviews

Mr Kishor A Chaukar, Mg. Director, Tata Industries Ltd

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http://www.podbazaar.com/permalink/144115188075857140

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Mr Gerard Helmink, Director, Akzo Nobel, Netherlands

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Mar 2008 - Chartered Institute of Public Relations, London @ 60

Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), London is one of the oldest Institutions in the PR field. They are celebrating their 60th Anniversary this year. To coincide with their 60th Anniversary, they are hosting '5th World PR Conference' at London during June 2008.

March 2008 issue of PR-e-Sense focusses on CIPR. Mr Colin Farrington, Director General of CIPR is the Guest Editor of this ezine. We carry an exclusive Podcast interview also with Mr Colin.

Besides, we also carry exclusive interviews with Ms Elisabeth Lewis Jones, (President of CIPR), Carol Matthews MCIPR (Chair, Chartered Institute of Public Relations Scotland), Pamela Mounter FCIPR, (Chair of the CIPR's International Group), and Mark Bickerton (Director of Student Recruitment and International Development at London Metropolitan University)

March issue of ezine may be downloaded from this link (350 k in pdf file)
http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0308.pdf

Please listen to the podcast interview of Mr Colin Farrington - Click to play

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This podcast interview may also be listened from

http://blip.tv/file/779874

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New design of logo and layout of PR-e-Sense

PR-e-Sense acknowledges the support given by Mr Sudhakar More, National Creative Director, Sudler & Hennessey, Mumbai, India for designing the new logo and the new layout which is being used by us from the Second Anniversary Feb 08 issue.

He began his career in the year 1993 with MAA Bozell and went on to work with a number of agencies like Clea, EURO RSCG, and McCann Healthcare.

Over the years, he has produced some award-winning work too. His campaign for brand Alaspan (anti-allergic) was recognised as the best campaign of the year among the 40 agencies across the globe in the EURO RSCG group. His poster against pirated CDs for Philips won the Gold award at the Ad Club of Calcutta. His poster for OPPI on Responsible Safe Medication won silver at the Rx Club, New York in 2005 and a campaign for S&H won Awards of Excellence. He continued the winning spirit with 2 gold, 1 silver and 15 awards of excellence in 2006 along with a certificate at New York festival for breast cancer awareness poster. And adding the feathers to his cap, he won 2 gold, 2 silver and 21 awards of excellence in Rx club, New York in 2007, creating a name and unique position for Sudler & Hennessey, India globally.

PR-e-Sense is proud that the new logo and layout has been designed by such an eminent creative director. PR-e-Sense wishes him many more laurels in future too.

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PR-e-Sense opens up sponsorship for Corporates!

India's first Corporate monthly ezine PR-e-Sense, published by Prime Point Foundation was started in March 2006 with a view to provide quality Corporate information and interviews on various themes. Very eminent people, including Dr Abdul Kalam, (Former President of India), Mr T S Krishna Murthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India), Mr Jimmy Wales (Founder, Wikipedia), Mr Colin Farrington (Director General, Charterred Institute of Public Relations, London)have contributed to the ezine.

During Jan 08, this ezine got the coveted 'Gold Award' from Association of Business Communicators of India (ABCI), Mumbai under corporate ezine category.

After successful publication of Second Anniversary issue (24th issue), there has been lot of requests for opening up of this ezine for sponsorship. After discussions, we have now opened up this ezine for sponsorship. Details may be downloaded from the following link ( 100 k in pdf)

http://www.primepointfoundation.org/ezine.pdf

For more details contact prpoint@gmail.com

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Second Anniversary of ezine - Roundtable on Corporate Governance - Gist of discussions

Prime Point Foundation and PR-e-Sense organised a Roundtable discussion on "360 degree Corporate Governance" at Chennai to mark the second anniversary of the ezine. The programme was held on Saturday the 1st March 2008 at Hotel Palmgrove.

Mr N Vittal (Former Cental Vigilance Commissioner of India), Mr T S Krishna Murthy (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India), Dr U Srinivasa Raghavan (Former Chairman of Indian Postal Services Board), Mr Yogesh Joshi (President, Association of Business Communicators of India (ABCI), Mumbai) were the expert panelists. Ranging from management students to Senior level CEOs participated in the discussions and shared their views.

Mr Kiruba Shankar, a well known Indian bloger and podcaster was moderating the discussions in an interesting manner.

Second Anniversary issue of the ezine PR-e-Sense was released by Mr N Vittal and Mr T S Krishna Murthy. This issue carries the exclusive interviews of Dr Abdul Kalam and Dr Y S Rajan, duo of India Vision 2020 document.

Narrendiran, Sakthi, Selvakumar, Veena, Shvetha and Satish who are associated with the ezine almost from the beginning were honoured with mementoes.

Please see the snap shots of the event. The gist of the discussions are given below the pictures.


The gist of the discussions are :
1. Corporate Governance

a. Business is a win-win exercise and corporate governance is a measure to ensure transparency in operations
b. Corporate good behavior
c. Corporate legal citizen and should discharge their duties as law abiding citizen
d. Vision and the active involvement of the Board
e. Doing business ethically driven by innovation, for profits and to increase shareholder wealth.
f. Ethical - do actions based on the following questions, is it legal? is it fair? and will the action cause embarrassment?

2. Corporate Arrogance

a. Greed is a root cause of arrogance
b. Insensible communications
c. Not knowing or understanding the needs of the society

3. Corporate Indifference

a. Knowing the needs of the society and not doing anything about it

4. Corporate Social Responsibility

a. What comes from society should go back to the society
b. Knowing the needs of the society and doing something about it

5. Leadership

a. Executing, communicating and motivating the organization on corporate governance and corporate social responsibility

(Main sponsor for this Roundtable - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited

Co-sponsors : Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited and Corporate Clinic)

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PR-e-Sense completes two years - How eminent people perceive?

PR-e-Sense completes two years and enters third year in March 2008. We have published 24 editions every month without break, on unique corporate theme each month. Many eminent people of National and International importance have contributed to this ezine either as Guest Editors or contributors. We have made a brief presentation on our ezine. Please watch the presentation

This presentation can also viewed from
http://blip.tv/file/696499

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Feb 2008 - Second Anniversary Issue - Exclusive with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam - Theme : Change

This ezine completes two years and enters third year successfully. Feb 2008 issue is the Special Second Anniversary Issue. This issue is unique in its own way.

If all the Indians chant with pride the 'Vision 2020' mantra, the entire credit goes to the duo Dr Abdul Kalam and Dr Y S Rajan, who authored the book India 2020 together. This edition is Guest Edited by Dr Y S Rajan and we carry the exclusive interviews from Dr Kalam and Dr Rajan.

Download the ezine

Please download the ezine from the following link ( 250k in pdf)
http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0208.pdf

Podcast interview of Dr Kalam

Please listen to the exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam - click to play ( 6 minutes)

You may also watch this podcast from the following link
http://blip.tv/file/698761

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Podcast interview of Dr Y S Rajan

To listen to the podcast interview of Dr Y S Rajan - click to play (13 minutes)

Click to play to listen to Dr Y S Rajan

You may also listen this podcast from the following link
http://blip.tv/file/692523

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Roundtable on Corporate Governance - Registration form

The Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense, published by Prime Point Foundation has completed two years of e-publication. This ezine was also honoured with "Gold Award" by Association of Business Communicators of India (ABCI) during Jan 08. To coincide with the Second Anniversary of the ezine, Prime Point Foundation and PR-e-Sense are jointly organising a 'Roundtable discussion' at Chennai (India) on Saturday the 1st March 2008 at Hotel Palmgrove. The programme will start at 10.30 am and end at 12.30 pm followed by Lunch.

During this 'Roundtable discussion', Corporate Governance issues in terms of HR, finance, Communication, Customer Service and other areas will be discussed. Mr T S Krishna Murthy, (Former Chief Election Commissioner of India), one of the experts in Corporate Governance in India and Dr U Srinivasa Raghavan, (Former Chairman of Indian Postal Board), one of the well known Marketing Gurus have kindly agreed to be the Chief Guests and to be expert panelists.

All the participants can share their views in this roundtable discussion briefly and the expert panel will provide clarifications.

There is no participation fee. All the Corporate professionals in HR, finance, Communication, Marketing and other areas can participate and get the benefit. Since there are only limited seats available, confirmation will be on first come, first served basis.

Please register your name through this form. You can also send your mail to prpoint@gmail.com with your details. You will be receiving confirmation. If you do not receive the registration confirmation within two days, please send a mail to the above email. You may also circulate this link to the interested friends.

Srinivasan
Founder, Prime Point Foundation
94440 50273

Registration form
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