CSR not just another TLA

Posted on 09. Jul, 2008 by nik in blog

Corporate Social Responsibility is going to be another of those buzzwords for the Naughties. At its heart Corporate Social Responsibility is focussed on ensuring that companies are ensuring they are communicating to the community in which they operate. It should come as no suprise then that Social Media and Social Networks are the platforms of choice on which enterprise is basing its CSR messages.

In this  QIK interview with Kevin Long of JustMeans he gives a great overview as to how Corporate Social Responsibility is integrated into the Human Resources aspects of employee hire and stake holder interest. For me this seems to be a Win/Win/Win  for the potential employees, the companies and their clients with a focus on how and where to communicate as well as encouraging those companies to utilise the tools which enable their own messages to reach their audience.

You can read more about Justmeans at their blog here.

I met Kevin at the recent MediaCampLondon and like many other Unconference experiences it was the conversations in the corridors and in the spare rooms that reflected the enthusiasm and interest in sharing knowledge and ideas. It was also  a great opporunity to listen to some great ideas presented by Andy Lamb of MIcrosoft, Judith deCabbit Lewis, Vicky  Stringer aka Rosevibe , Chris Hambly organiser and SLR junky , Vero and many more whom I will apologise for not naming sooner.

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Things to People See to meet.

Posted on 02. Jul, 2008 by nik in Events

Social networks and social media inevitably mean social meet ups and theres two events in my calendar for this month.

Media Camp London on 5th July at the SAE Institute , North Road, London.

Following the unconference format,  MediaCamp is an excellent space in which to arrange real life meet ups as well as to bounce around ideas concerning marketing, PR and all round technical information exchange. Im usually to be found happy to volunteer a talk on Twitter or a Gabble on Google and I’ll be there this week to gather people who want to talk about Event promotion strategies.

Geeknbury Festival 24th to 27th July somewhere near Hambledon in Surrey.

Online resident and social media maven Christian Payne, aka Documentally of Ourmaninside.com has been pushing this idea forward with Sisyphus efforts. For me its the closest thing we will be seeing to a UK version of the Maker Faire and I fully expect the Geek experience within the UK to adapt to deliver our own version of Geekery and Hackerdom.

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