Simon Mainwaring

We First provides consulting and training to help companies tell the story of their good work in ways that build their business

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VenVRs_Gywk Yesterday I had the real pleasure of visiting Patagonia HQ in Ventura, California. It’s a brand that I, and many others, have admired for so long because of the powerful alignment between their core values and how they run their business and make their products. To better understand how they achieve this, I asked […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VenVRs_Gywk Yesterday I had the real pleasure of visiting Patagonia HQ in Ventura, California. It’s a brand that I, and many others, have admired for so long because of the powerful alignment between their core values and how they run their business and make their products. To better understand how they achieve this, I asked …

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This week Apple employees joined the ‘It Gets Better’ campaign in support of gay, lesbian and transgender rights. The campaign got started last year after college student Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after his roommate used a Webcam to film and broadcast Clementi’s sexual encounter with another man. In …

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXsZYCokL7k At SXSW this year I had the opportunity to talk to Brian Lindenbaum who, with has brother Scott, has launched some very exciting audio technology that has enormous potential for brands, non-profits and individual alike. Here’s how he explained Broadcastr. SM: Broadcastr allows you to geo tag sound anywhere you are which has enormous …

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I’ve written in the past about the great relief efforts of Zynga to aid the earthquake victims in Haiti. At the time I saw this as a powerful demonstration of what could become a consistent and transformative force for positive change in our world. In the shadow of the tragic consequences of the tsunami in …

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There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans and followers.  This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention. As Stephen Rosenbaum outlines …

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5sJQJYknsc As part of We First thinking, I have championed the use of social technology to scale positive chnage. a shift in the way brands and their communities relate. I had the pleasure of speaking to Stephen Johnson at SXSW about exactly how they are using a community engine to do just that. Here’s some …

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