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Egypt: Social media as a life or death proposition
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, many wearing bandages from from days of street fighting, turned out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday for what they are calling the ‘Day of Departure’, a nationwide cry for the immediate removal and prosecution …
BIG NEWS: Announcing my first book, We First
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-nWKaCZBjQ Visit www.wefirstbook.com Hi, I’m Simon Mainwaring. Thanks for your time and your support of my blog. Over the last two years we’ve been looking at a few really important questions. How does the economy recover? How does your company …
SwipeGood: Social change through little change at all
The need to scale positive social change is immediate and pressing. Too many men, women and children around the world are suffering, often needlessly, because they’re not getting the help they need. At the other end of the prosperity equation, …
How Nike redefines leadership in a global, social community
Nike is famous for taking a leadership position on the field and in the marketplace. But what it’s just done for the entire apparel industry is both surprising and enlightening. At the turn of the year Nike released their open-source …
The Coming Decade of Radical Transparency
It is customary at this time of year to look back and reflect on the year that was. But this year is different. Not only was it the end of the first decade of the new Millennium, but it represents …
There is no “Us” and “Them: How social media can forge cultural bridges
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s-_B2chN5w I recently had the great privilege of participating in a public forum on how media – including social media – can be used to forge cultural bridges. Our hosts, the Levantine Center, just released this video of the discussion, …
Lessons from BP and bankers: The need for a more sustainable future
I woke up this morning and read this post by Robert Kuttner in Huffington Post. I think his opening points are spot on. He tells us that Wall Street and BP demonstrate the same problem. In both cases, a powerful, …
Cannes Advertising Festival Seminar: Social media as an instrument of change
For those at the seminar who want further information, or for those who couldn’t make it, here are a synopsis, a list of key points and links to the case studies that I mentioned in my seminar at Cannes today. …
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Simon Mainwaring is founder of We First, a social branding consulting firm that helps companies, non-profits and individuals use social media to build communities, profits and positive impact.
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