Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Elementary, my dear Watson.

As a professional, having a personal code of ethics and/or conduct can be a plus. It can demonstrate your standards, transparency, and depth of character. Agencies, firms and corporations consistently do so, like the PRSA. Just beware that it can also be a measure of mediocrity and shallowness if it is done weakly.

Check out this article titled Code of Ethics or PR 101? As the article says, maybe “the ethics bar [should be raised a little] higher than the most basic rules of PR.”

In my mind…NO, DUH!

1 comment:

Karen said...

I've bookmarked this link to PRSA. On first glance, it is a well thought out document. I plan to scrutinize it in the near future.

As for the article; at least Ogilvy is making an effort to specify values publicly, albeit from a PR rookie it would seem.