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October 9, 2018 by Simon Mainwaring

  The world’s largest food chain has been facing internal challenges when it comes to corporate purpose. While McDonald’s has taken concerted efforts over the last several years to address sustainability issues like packaging, climate resiliency, and emissions reductions targets, it’s in hot water in regards to social responsibility. McDonald’s workers recently held a strike […]

  The world’s largest food chain has been facing internal challenges when it comes to corporate purpose. While McDonald’s has taken concerted efforts over the last several years to address sustainability issues like packaging, climate resiliency, and emissions reductions targets, it’s in hot water in regards to social responsibility. McDonald’s workers recently held a strike …

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Filed Under: Media, Purpose, Social, Values Tagged With: corporate purpose, McDonalds, Sexual Harrasment, social impact

October 21, 2016 by Simon Mainwaring

Listen to my thoughts on how Samsung can best navigate its way through this costly product & PR crisis on the BBC World Service Newshour, beginning at 30:11.     Image via Flickr courtesy of user TechStage at https://flic.kr/p/oXmSoZ. 

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Filed Under: Brands, Media, Technology Tagged With: BBC, Samsung

April 19, 2016 by Simon Mainwaring

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Filed Under: Media, Videos, We First Tagged With: Building Your Brand, Consumers, VLOG

September 10, 2014 by Simon Mainwaring

Announcing the final speaker line-up at the 2014 We First Brand Leadership Summit – join us to build your social marketing plan for 2015 together. Getting your social marketing right is no easy task with technology and consumer behavior changing so quickly. That’s why we put together a very special, annual 2-day training event where …

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Filed Under: Brands, Causes, Community, Conferences, CSR, Leadership, Media, Non-profits, Purpose, Sustainability, Thinking, Values Tagged With: branding, Brands, Business, Causes, Coca Cola, CSR, Facebook, IBM, Marketing, non-profits, Nutiva, Participant Media, Patagonia, purpose, seminar, social branding, social business, Social change, sustainability, unilever, Values, We First

March 13, 2014 by Simon Mainwaring

Vine was launched way back in January of 2013, and since then its popularity has exploded across the social world. By April it had become the most downloaded app in the iOS store. What started as a fun and exciting way to share six-second videos with friends and family became a potential sleeper hit for …

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Filed Under: Media, Twitter

March 19, 2013 by Simon Mainwaring

One of the constant themes of my blog posts over the last year has been the need to cop-create content for your brand with your community. One great example is You Tube sensation, ‘Epic Rap Battles’. Here’s just one example of their videos (apologies for the ad up front). The way it works is simple. …

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Filed Under: Advertising, Brands, Community, Media Tagged With: branding, Community, Social media

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