GACA; Stating the Obvious

I am not able to understand the strange desire of some organizations to have press coverages or to have press releases when they do not have anything new to say, or when what they have to say is sooooooooo obvious, to say the least! You want an example; here is one. Freshly coming from GACA [...]

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Banning the BB Messenger

If the news about CITC efforts to ban the BB messenger service turned out to be true (here in Arabic), then CITC should be really honored for their great efforts in making the most bizarre and unexplainable decisions ever. People are still not totally recovered from its earlier decision to stop the free roaming services [...]

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CITC and The Hatred Campaign

The anger campaign, or you could call it ‘the hatred campaign,’ currently running by both media and customers themselves against the Saudi CITC (The Communication and Information Technology Commission) is a very interesting case study for a classical public relation failure. It is not only that they could not construct a logical reasoning to explain [...]

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Press Releases; Stop Lying!!

 I just read a press release about a local company participation in an international fair. And let me tell you how I felt; disgusted!! Press releases are a widely known and adopted tool by PR professionals to attract attention of public in general and organization’s stakeholders in particular. Unfortunately, some of these professionals definition of [...]

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