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Modern companies, regardless of their sector, size, structure, or origin, are no strangers to the need to integrate a PR (Public Relations) team into their operations, as this is an element conceived as a highly important tool for strengthening a business organization...

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It is more important to be interested than to be interesting

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the CEO Bootcamp, an intensive three-day workshop with Verne Harnish, author of Scaling Up. In one of the sessions, a simple, almost obvious phrase came up: “It's more important to be interested than to be interesting.” And of course, it stuck with me and led me to some reflections that […]

A stolen passport, inadmissibility, and crisis management lessons

A few weeks ago, I experienced a personal situation that could easily be classified as a small crisis. On a Bogotá-Mexico flight, my wallet with my passport disappeared inside the plane. When I arrived at immigration, I simply didn't have it. After four hours of searching by Avianca ground staff, it never turned up. I couldn't enter […]

ESG as new business reputation infrastructure

Over the past decade, ESG has transitioned from a concept exclusively associated with corporate sustainability to a structural factor of competitiveness. Today, it is no longer a peripheral or reputational issue in the traditional sense. It is a variable that directly impacts access to capital, relationships with markets, and […]

The power of social media, the real one

Today, when we talk about social networks, we almost always think of digital platforms. We think of followers, content, algorithms, trends, professional connections, DMs, and conversations that happen on a screen. However, there is another type of network, less visible, less immediate, and perhaps because of that, somewhat deeper: the human networks that sustain us, […]

Strategic Communication. How is trust measured, how much does it weigh, how much is it worth?

A continuación presento algunas reflexiones sobre cómo un asesor de comunicaciones puede generar confianza con los clientes. De hecho, un factor determinante en el ejercicio de la comunicación y las relaciones humanas es la confianza, que para muchos es un valor, para otros una actitud y para todos una condición que marca la diferencia entre […]

Six keys to choosing a strategic communications agency

Actualmente, las compañías de todos los sectores e industrias están buscando generar estrategias de comunicación con profesionales especializados que ayuden a posicionarse con medios, a difundir su mensaje de marca, a mejorar su reputación y además, a estar preparados en casos de crisis, por lo que es clave saber cómo seleccionar una agencia dedicada a […]

The proper use of words and their impact on communication

La comunicación es un arte que se aprende y se practica constantemente. Lo primero que aprende el hombre es a comunicar con el cuerpo, antes que con las palabras, desde que nacemos aprendemos unos códigos que nos permiten comunicar necesidades básicas como “tengo hambre”, “tengo sueño”, y “me duele“, entre otros. Posteriormente, gracias a la […]

Participatory communication, a fundamental tool for achieving common goals

La comunicación participativa requiere, antes que todo, cambios en la manera de pensar de los “comunicadores”, Jan Servaes & Patchanee Malikhao. Empecemos con una breve definición de qué es la comunicación según Paulo Freire, educador latinoamericano, la cual se entiende como el intercambio de la información entre varias partes, con el fin de transmitir o […]

The Impact of Technology on Public Relations

Al igual que muchos sectores que se han visto impactados por la revolución digital, las relaciones públicas (PR) no se quedan atrás. En los últimos años, las nuevas tecnologías no solo han redefinido el panorama de los medios de comunicación, sino que han elevado las expectativas de los usuarios respecto a experiencias personalizadas, así como […]