Donald Steel

Strategic Media Communication and Public Relation 2011 conference in Dubai steadfast brand-customer rapport building

Thu, 2011-06-23 09:47 - By

Events, Media Business, Media, Bahrain CSR Society, BBC, Clare Woodcraft, Donald Steel, Dubai, International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Johnston Associates Aviation PR, Shell Foundation, Strategic Media Communication and Public Relation 2011 Conference

The first day of the conference features a Half-day workshop on restoring organisational brand via comprehensive internal and external crisis communications to reach both public and media to be conducted by Donald Steel Former Chief Communications Adviser from BBC - Reputation, i

Corporate Communications Conference kicks off in Dubai highlighting immense growth of social media

Wed, 2011-03-02 11:09 - By

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Advertising Business, Events, Media Business, Media, BBC UK, Corporate Communications Conference, Donald Steel, IIR

The communications industry has grown exponentially in the region throughout the last decade, with advertising spend increasing from $6m (Dhs22m) in 1990 to $280m (Dhs1bn) in 2010; and public relations spend increasing from $47m (Dhs172m) to $1.1bn (Dhs4bn), the Corporate Communications Conference, now in its fifth year, will be highlighting significant topics such as online communications, the impact of social media, establishing a strategic communications function and crisis communications. The main conference is taking place today and tomorrow and will close on Thursday with an online communications workshop.