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May 11, 2016 by Simon Mainwaring

A powerful transfer of power is underway around us. It takes many forms from drones to driverless cars to robotics factories made freshly famous by Tesla. This rise in robotics is remaking both the supply chain and demand sides of business (see ‘Rise of the Robots’), but they will soon transform brand marketing just as […]

A powerful transfer of power is underway around us. It takes many forms from drones to driverless cars to robotics factories made freshly famous by Tesla. This rise in robotics is remaking both the supply chain and demand sides of business (see ‘Rise of the Robots’), but they will soon transform brand marketing just as …

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Filed Under: Brands, Innovation, Technology Tagged With: Brands, Future, Social media, Technology

August 20, 2014 by Simon Mainwaring

In our latest G+ hangout, Leveraging Cultural Conversations to Build Your Brand, Community, and Impact, we spoke with Aaron Sherinian, VP of Communication and PR for the UN Foundation (and one of our fantastic speakers at our upcoming Brand Leadership Summit) about how organizations can become leaders in cultural conversations and build movements. While it’s …

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Filed Under: Brands, Causes, Community, Consumers, Creativity, CSR, Economy, Future, Globalization, Innovation, Leadership, Social, Sustainability, Technology, Thinking, Values, Videos Tagged With: branding, Brands, Business, Causes, climate change, Community, Consumers, Creativity, CSR, Economy, Future, Inspiration, leadership, Marketing, non-profits, Online communities, purpose, social business, Social change, Social media, sustainability, Technology, Values

July 9, 2014 by Simon Mainwaring

Originally published in CSRwire In today’s radically transparent social business marketplace, the reputation of a company extends way beyond its marketing to include its supply chain, manufacturing processes, employee treatment and customer engagement. Likewise, full circle sustainability requires that companies overhaul how they source their ingredients, manufacture and distribute their products, and manage the waste they …

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Filed Under: Community, CSR, Leadership, Sustainability, Thinking Tagged With: Brand, Coca Cola, CSR, employee engagement, Marketing, Social media, story telling, supply chain, sustainability, transparency, unilever, Zara

May 17, 2013 by Simon Mainwaring

Today is LIVESTRONG Day and the anniversary of the launch of their now iconic LIVESTRONG wristband. Since 2004, the Foundation has recognized one day each year as LIVESTRONG Day to honor the 28 million people living with cancer. Yet this year marks a special opportunity: to drive the conversation past the Lance Armstrong controversy and shine …

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Filed Under: Brands, Causes, Social Tagged With: branding, Livestrong, Social media

April 22, 2013 by Simon Mainwaring

Last week we kicked off our We First training series with a webinar called, 8 Steps to Becoming a Contagious Social Brand. By looking at strategies employed by some of the most successful companies like Nike, Coke, IBM, and Patagonia, we outlined some clear ways for your organization to combine storytelling and social technologies to build your reputation, community and social impact.

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Filed Under: Thinking Tagged With: Brands, Community, Marketing, purpose, Social media, Technology

April 19, 2013 by Simon Mainwaring

I’m a huge fan of the important work that the U.N. Foundation does and in the TEDx talk, Aaron Sherinian, VP for Public Relations, discusses 5 of the revolutions that he believes provide the context — and build the case — for a new approach to public engagement around social good and global progress. Aaron cites …

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Filed Under: Brands, Consumers, Innovation, Mobile, Social Tagged With: social good, Social media, U.N. Foundation

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