18 Jan 13

Join The Tech-Free Revolution

What would happen if a digital agency shunned technology? Seems like the obvious answer is that it would rapidly fail. But hear me out for a moment and I might just convince you otherwise. As part of a New Year’s resolution, my wife and I have decided to try something new for 2013. At Christmas, [...]

Posted in: Business, Communications, Corporate social responsibility, Digital communications, Employee engagement, Innovation, Just for fun, Miscellaneous, Social media, Tech, Technology, Tuesday Tech
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15 Jun 12

Dare To Make The Change

Recently I received a link to a truly inspiring video. Jaqueline Novogratz’ (founder and CEO of Acumen Fund) commencement speech at Gettysburg College is quite simply great. The thing about great speeches is that they allow each of us take something different from the content, message and themes and yet we are all left with an equal sense of impact. I [...]

Posted in: Communications, Corporate social responsibility, Corporate voice, Employee engagement, Innovation, Miscellaneous
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30 Aug 11

Technology Education

There has been an active discussion on one of my previous Tuesday Tech articles about the state of computing education. So I thought I’d open up the discussion with a dedicated post. I’m a big proponent of technology and the sciences, and I feel that these are being let down by the education system. In [...]

Posted in: Business, Corporate social responsibility, Technology
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10 Jun 10

CSR? It’s just business as usual

I have been to any number of meetings with clients and prospective clients in the corporate social responsibility world. They know that they are doing great work. We know that they are doing great work. But does the rest of the world know? And how do we know if the rest of the world cares? [...]

Posted in: Corporate social responsibility
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19 Feb 10

Kicking and ice screaming for Fairtrade

Hmmm, I wonder how involved Unilever’s PR department was in the messaging developed for Ben & Jerry’s latest announcement that they intend to be fully Fairtrade compliant across all of their European products by the end of 2011, followed by products in the rest of the world in 2013. You can’t imagine Unilever was happy [...]

Posted in: Brand strategy, Corporate social responsibility
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21 Jan 10

Looking for Gremlins

In September 2008, the dramatic collapse of Lehman Brothers sent shock waves around the world. The integrity and stability of the world’s leading financial institutions came into severe question, massive unemployment was expected as a consequence of debt-ridden businesses being unable to pay back what they owed, and in Britain we were all but ready [...]

Posted in: Corporate reporting, Corporate social responsibility
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