Back in the UK and tired. Had great fun yesterday addressing the world’s fashion industry, assembled in Maastricht for the annual conference of the International Apparel Federation. Maastricht is a beautiful city crushed between Belgium, Holland and Germany. No wonder…
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Alan Knight on the wiki way to stakeholder assurance
Alan Knight oversees a critical global standard for CSR reporters - the AA1000AS. In this interview, Alan discusses the development of the latest update of that standard, and the use AccountAbility made of its wiki to attract more than 4,500 stakeholder contributions. The lessons he learned are widely applicable to other forms of stakeholder engagement - particularly on complex policy matters.
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Branding Social Capital. Corporates must step up…
Chaos reigns at present to appropriate the meaning of ‘Social Capital’…and chaos always presents transformational opportunities…
Social Entrepreneurs are the latest to try and claim the term…aligning social capital closely to ideas of future capitalism and creative capitalism…
Meanwhile the twitterati throbs…
Will diamonds get more transparent?
…almost certainly, is the answer.
That’s the view of the industry blog at US trade publication Modern Jeweller.
As they say:
“A customer who buys the jewelry can visit www.loveearthinfo.com to see where their particular piece of jewelry was mined and learn about the…
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Magic Whiteboard Wars. Episode 2: “The Empire Strikes Back?”
Climbing back astride my electrostatic hobby-horse as a distraction from serious work…
AN UPDATE:
Since I originally posted on the Dragon’s Den £29.99 Magic Whiteboard pricing fiasco (double the market rate at that time), Dragons’ Den-backed Magic Whiteboard now do a 4…
Patagonia. Showing the way to Authenticity 2.0?
Nicholas Ind makes a great contribution to the debate here at Window Cleaning.
Nicholas is obsessed with authenticity in branding - something we have debated in the past. The most authentic brands are fractal - their deeply-embedded values make sure they…
Magic Whiteboard Wars: Will Dragons’ Den fall victim to transparency?
Much celebrating in the Dragons’ Den this week as the dragons were shown investing £100,000 to own 40% of Magic Whiteboard - the only UK site selling magic whiteboard - according to its strapline. Hmmm.
Four of the dragons were interested and…
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Tim Kitchin on social communication
Tim introduces the need for social communication - why it has come to prominence; how it's taking shape and who is already doing it.
Johnnie Moore on the limits of social media
Social media and improv' guru Johnnie Moore discusses the challenges of engineering serendipity within organisations and the limited role that social media can play.
Nicholas Ind on Patagonia
Living the Brand author Nicholas Ind shares his thoughts on what makes Patagonia the perfect role model for social communicators.
Alan Knight on the wiki way to stakeholder assurance
In this interview Alan discusses the development of the latest update of that standard, and the use AccountAbility made of its wiki to attract more than 4,500 stakeholder contributions.
Richard Williams on "The Untouchables?"
Richard Williams, discusses the challenges of attracting corporate support for controversial causes.
James Cherkoff on social media and transparency
James Cherkoff discusses organisational strategies for using social media to become more transparent.
Stanley Moss on the abuses of social media
Stanley Moss discusses the role of social communications and how it is used - and abused - in today's marketplace.