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Upcoming Events

BDA Fall Board Meeting
BDA Fall Board Meeting -- Executive Session
Weber Shandwick Worldwide
1:00-4:30pm

Metro Language Series Corp Roundtable - New York
BDA to Co-Convene Corp Roundtable
September 23, 2008
1:00-4:30pm
Reception to Follow

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BDA to Keynote California TIA Annual Conference
Santa Rosa, CA
September 30th, 2008

Cari Guittard to Keynote Annual Conference

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August 6, 2008
Keith Reinhard: Remaking Brand America's Tattered Image Abroad

August 1, 2008
Book of Note: The Art of Global Public Relations by Nick Cull

June 25, 2008
CS Monitor: The key to a better U.S. image

June 22, 2008
Multinationals Rev Up Disaster Relief Efforts

May 11, 2008
BDA Business exchange broadens image of Middle East, America

April 16, 2008
2008 Annual Arab Public Opinion Poll

March 23, 2008
America's Good Will Ambassadors, National Protocol Officers Week

March 22, 2008
Fast Company: The Brand Called Obama

March 21, 2008
BDA YAL Arab American Business Fellows Highlighted at Recent Forum

March 16, 2008
Second Annual Young Arab Leaders Forum launches multi-facited program to promote arab-american dialogue

March 5, 2008
Doing business abroad? Cultural awareness is key

March 2, 2008
Salon.com: Brand-Aid

February 24, 2008
VCU forum targets anti-Americanism -- Reinhard to Keynote

January 24, 2008
SBODAC Report: U.S. Security Impeding Global Business

January 16, 2008
Secure Borders Open Doors Report Released

January 8, 2008
DMN Column on BDA: Group working to rehabilitate image of U.S. overseas

December 21, 2007
Gulf Times: America to ‘show a welcoming face to the world’

December 21, 2007
Variety: U.S. needs image tuck

December 12, 2007
Under Secretary Karen Hughes Announces Three International Projects

December 12, 2007
New Film on America To Be Shown at U.S. Consulates, Embassies

December 9, 2007
BDA noted in US Industry Today: Reginald Dale takes a look at the business costs of anti-Americanism overseas

November 19, 2007
Expanding our Horizons

October 31, 2007
America's Role in the World: A Business Perspective on Public Diplomacy

October 26, 2007
Keith Reinhard Participates in Abu Dhabi's Festival of Thinkers

September 28, 2007
BusinessWeek.com: Brand New Day

September 28, 2007
CNN Money: Tribal DDB Wins Brand America Challenge at Adweek

September 23, 2007
NY Post Sunday: Brand America, Uncle Sam Ready for a Makeover

September 14, 2007
CNN.com: BDA's CultureSpan Course & Executive Guide Noted in Business Traveller

September 3, 2007
How to advance US public diplomacy -- BDA Noted in Lebanon Daily Star

August 23, 2007
Be involved globally: Act locally

August 16, 2007
Latest GfK Power Brand Survey Shows Declines for American Brands

August 14, 2007
Can America 'Find Love' Again? Some Friendly Swiss Advice

August 10, 2007
‘Citizen Diplomacy’—A Very Democratic Idea

July 29, 2007
Keith Reinhard Interview on Travel Talk Radio

July 13, 2007
CNN Money -- Going Global

July 11, 2007
Op-ed of Note: Voices of America

June 18, 2007
Zagats Call for Dumpling Diplomacy

May 15, 2007
Huffington Post: How to Be a Good U.S. Ambassador When So Many Dislike America

May 3, 2007
Forbes.com -- BDA Zogby Research

May 3, 2007
Investor's Business Daily: BDA Zogby Poll -- Americans Alarmed About Declining U.S. Global Reputation, Study Shows

April 8, 2007
The Moscow Times: An Unwelcome Reception

March 12, 2007
BDA on CNBC: Discussion of US Tourism Crisis

March 1, 2007
SF Chronicle: Tourism at the front lines of Anti-American Sentiment

February 28, 2007
NYT -- Remaking the City's Image, With 50 Million Tourists in Mind

February 28, 2007
ABC 7: S.F. Tourism To See Double-Digit Drop From Key European Countries

February 23, 2007
U.S. visa rules are hurting Bay Area tourism

February 16, 2007
Public Diplomacy, TV-Style

February 9, 2007
Op-ed of Note by Jospeh Nye: Just don't mention the war on terrorism

February 1, 2007
Is Science the Key to the Middle East?

February 1, 2007
PR Week -- Business Unites to Help Brand America

January 24, 2007
A Plan Forward for U.S. Public Diplomacy

January 4, 2007
Australian Perspective: Who Will Rebuild Brand America?

January 1, 2007
Kiplinger: Rebuilding US Image, Influence Abroad Will Take Years

December 17, 2006
Book aims to help globe-trotting Americans live down stereotypes

December 15, 2006
Anti-Americanism and the Rise of Civic Diplomacy

December 11, 2006
Book helps globe-trotting Americans live down stereotypes

December 11, 2006
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana -- Keith Reinhard Visit to Purdue

December 1, 2006
Seattle Times: Teaching Americans to use a few manners

December 1, 2006
Book Targets American Stereotypes

November 20, 2006
Blog in Focus: Repairing American's Image Abroad

November 20, 2006
Blog in Focus: PSYCHOANALYZING AMERICA’S PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, WHILE PRIVATE ENTERPRISE EXERTS ITSELF

November 5, 2006
Des Moines, Iowa -- Beautifying the ugly American

November 3, 2006
Joseph Nye Posting: Our Impoverished Discourse

October 22, 2006
Ft. Worth Star Telegram: 'Ugly' Americans don't have to be

October 15, 2006
Taking the 'ugly' out of 'American' in eyes of rest of the world

October 3, 2006
Citizen Diplomats: Let Americans Sell America

October 1, 2006
AMERICA, we've got a situation...

October 1, 2006
World Citizens Guide in Focus -- Baltimore Sun

September 21, 2006
BDA Feature in Le Monde: The Mission: Reconcile America and the World

September 13, 2006
Travel Trends: Tips from the World Citizens Guide

September 13, 2006
America's Image Abroad in Crisis: CEOs Issue National Challenge; Launch Campaign to Strengthen Image by Unlocking Power of Travel

September 13, 2006
Blog of Note: WHAT IF THE PRESIDENT REQUESTED YOUR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVICE? RESPONSES FROM USIA PAST MASTERS

September 11, 2006
Op-ed In Focus: Time for America to turn the corner

September 3, 2006
The Way We Live Now: The I’m-Not-Ugly American

August 27, 2006
USC Center on Public Diplomacy: What if the President Requested Your Public Diplomacy Advice? Responses from Past USIA Masters

August 17, 2006
Citizen Diplomats Work To Improve US Image

August 15, 2006
Letter from Washington: Combating the image of the Ugly American

August 15, 2006
New Image for America Begins at Home

August 3, 2006
Is political Islam on the march? Five facts to consider...

July 26, 2006
Reuters - Anti-Americanism prompts push for "citizen diplomacy"

July 19, 2006
U.S. image abroad? Take it personal

July 6, 2006
Traverse these pages before traveling across the globe

July 5, 2006
PUBLIC DIPLOMACY'S MID-YEAR REPORT CARD

June 27, 2006
Nurturing Citizen Diplomats

June 21, 2006
America's message to Muslim world

June 16, 2006
The corporate communicator is on the scene, quelling rumors and disseminating information

June 1, 2006
Al Jazeera International Could Be Good for America, Say Backers

May 28, 2006
EVERYONE'S AN AMBASSADOR

May 27, 2006
PBS P.O.V. Crossing Borders Series: Keith Reinhard Podcast

May 22, 2006
Group Seeks to Improve America's Image

May 20, 2006
Beautifying the Ugly American

May 19, 2006
Forbes.com: Q&A with Keith Reinhard

May 19, 2006
Ugly Americans' makeover team

May 18, 2006
Doing away with the 'ugly American' by turning travelers into ambassadors

May 16, 2006
New guide aims to erase 'ugly American' image

May 11, 2006
Toward a less ugly American

May 10, 2006
Un-uglyfying Americans

May 9, 2006
Behavior guide aims at demise of "the ugly American"

May 5, 2006
Border Talk - PBS P.O.V.: Crossing Borders

May 5, 2006
Innocents Abroad

May 3, 2006
Ugly America's Makeover: Cleaning Up Our Image Is Left To Us

April 28, 2006
That 'ugly American' image is getting a makeover guide

April 27, 2006
Stereotypes hurt business

April 22, 2006
What's Online: Business for Diplomatic Action's World Citizens Guide

April 18, 2006
Politeness is patriotic

April 17, 2006
Group develops good behaviour guide for US tourists

April 17, 2006
Pride, Perception, and Prejudice: Public & Private Diplomacy in the Middle East

April 16, 2006
A quiet word to loud Americans

April 11, 2006
Teaching Americans How to Behave Abroad

April 2, 2006
Letter from the Editor: Bald Eagles

March 17, 2006
Al Jazeera's {Global} Mission: Can an English-language news network with radioactive DNA actually be good

March 6, 2006
Clinton Global Initiative: BDA Commitment Announcement - Arab Youth Development

March 4, 2006
YAL (UAE Chapter) announces partnership with Business for Diplomatic Action

February 17, 2006
USA tries to be less daunting to foreign visitors

February 6, 2006
Love the money, hate the country

January 31, 2006
The Impact of the Private Sector on Public Diplomacy

January 31, 2006
American Business Must Produce a Generation of “New Internationalists”

January 30, 2006
PRIVATE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

December 8, 2005
Attitude Adjustment: Seeing yourself as the rest of the world does

December 6, 2005
Sullying our reputation

November 25, 2005
U.S. image analyzed

November 22, 2005
Age of corporate diplomacy

November 16, 2005
Branding US: America has lost the war of ideas

October 24, 2005
Erasing the Image of the Ugly American

October 23, 2005
US State Department 'charm offensive' hits bumps

October 15, 2005
Anti-American sentiment may hurt US firms

October 14, 2005
Ad exec: Anti-American views could hurt firms: Growing resentment over U.S. foreign policy, culture seen damaging brands

October 14, 2005
Animosity abroad could hurt businesses in U.S.

October 14, 2005
Repair U.S. image, ad chief says; He tells government, business officials that anti-American sentiment will carry a price

October 8, 2005
Image woes for U.S. firms?

September 19, 2005
Saatchi's Roberts Advised DOD on Rebranding ‘War’

September 15, 2005
BDA Commitment Pledge to The Clinton Global Initiative

September 15, 2005
Building New Bridges to the World: BDA Statement as Submitted to the 9/11 Public Discourse Project

September 15, 2005
Business Taking the Lead in Public Diplomacy

August 17, 2005
Seeking space between State and USA

August 12, 2005
U.S. brands have an image problem

August 12, 2005
Restoring trust in American business: The struggle to change perception

August 1, 2005
World turning its back on Brand America

July 31, 2005
Tracking the world’s perception of the US

July 31, 2005
Mending an image problem

July 28, 2005
How Does the World See America? (Anholt-GMI NBI Executive Summary)

July 5, 2005
America:Home Free

June 27, 2005
Redefining Brand America to a Hostile Post-September 11 World

June 12, 2005
Is America bad or good?

June 9, 2005
America, Spare Arabs the Spin

June 1, 2005
Brand America: How to Restore its Tarnished Image in an Angry World

June 1, 2005
Is US Business Losing Europe?

May 17, 2005
Ending downward spiral of American prestige

May 4, 2005
World Citizens Guide Wesite Wins Webby

April 19, 2005
Reinhard Seeks to Boost U.S. Image Abroad

April 19, 2005
Redefining America at Home and Abroad: A Call to Action

April 15, 2005
Big Picture Guy: Keith Reinhard & Brand America

April 12, 2005
Fix the Image: U.S. needs to work on branding problem...

March 31, 2005
Weak dollar doesn't bring avalanche of foreign visitors

March 27, 2005
Americans Dont Listen Very Well

March 13, 2005
Re-branding America

March 1, 2005
Is 'Brand America' Going to be an Endangered Species in World Markets?

February 28, 2005
Branding America

February 28, 2005
Chicagoans go global on U.S. schoolchildren

February 1, 2005
Part Two of Beacon's Interview with Joshua Fouts

January 24, 2005
NGOs win greater trust than media and big businesses

January 24, 2005
NGOs gain confidence of public

January 22, 2005
Americas soft power suffering as it loses the propaganda war

January 5, 2005
Is the World Falling Out of Love with US Brands?

January 1, 2005
Yankee Doodle Branding

January 1, 2005
Rebuilding Trust, Mending the Rift

November 19, 2004
Firms and non-profits try diplomacy

November 4, 2004
Rebranding America

November 1, 2004
Brand That I Love

October 24, 2004
US icons lose their cool in Europe

October 10, 2004
A guide to the ways of the world

October 1, 2004
The Rebranding of America

August 1, 2004
The Good Brand

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