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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Cannes Keynote Speech View more presentations from Simon Mainwaring. I’ve had some requests for the slides from my seminar at the Cannes International Advertising Festival so here they are. Plus below is a short synopsis and a link to footage from the speech itself. If you haven’t used slideshare before, you can view and download […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNin34Zocgw Here is the second part of the interview I did with Rob Kramer regarding his new cause action platform, Poprule. You can watch Part One here. HAITI: SM: Rob and I were going to get together a few weeks ago, but he suddenly disappeared off to Haiti when the tragic earthquake happened.  Tell us […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrC4Apvh5bs As you know I’m constantly exploring ways for brands to contribute to social change and I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Rob Kramer who has just launched an action technology platform that does just that. THE SEMANTIC WEB MEETS CAUSE MARKETING SM:  How does Poprule work?  How does it use the semantic […]

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ANVCDHYA4 If only these walls could talk, the saying goes. In the case of the N building near Tachikawa station in Japan they do. In fact the whole building facade has been transformed into a real time dialogue between smart phones and what’s going on inside the store. All you do is hold your phone up […]

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Jeff Jarvis wrote a great post yesterday about Facebook, privacy and the theme of his upcoming book – publicness. I can’t wait to read it – seriously, Jeff, write fast – as it provides much-needed clarity around the web’s hottest issue: privacy. Critical to his post was the distinction between the ‘private’ public (that’s the one […]

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