Archives for CSR

Event: Customer Service Call Centres and Social Media

I’ve been asked to speak in Melbourne on April 15th (evening) about the impact of social media, online communities, social networks and call centres. As you probably know, I believe that while marketing and PR want social networks to be about them and their needs, the customer usually has a specific question they want answered, [...]

How NOT to do Customer Service on Twitter Crucial Paradigm

Crucial paradigm versus a client over a Twitter comment. Justified?

Australia: Corporate Social Media

That title Corporate Social Media looks funny doesn’t it? I mean, some people still think of ‘social‘ as ‘party‘. Like, Corey from Melbourne on MySpace. They don’t realise that ‘social‘ means ‘society‘ – friends and family, yes, but also sports heroes and politicians and other leaders, and those we deem tabloid worthy – the Angelina [...]

Australia: Text 100 APAC bloggers survey

Please don’t add corporate spam to what we already get (from apogee) Are we starting to see our code of conduct implemented by P.R. agencies? Looks like it Hat tip to Lukas Picton and team at Text 100 who put this survey together, Stilgherrian and Kelly F who forwarded it to me: APAC bloggers call [...]

Architect 2.0 Andrew Maynard (Australia)

I listened to this video of Andrew Maynard (I rarely watch videos) and although he was talking about architecture and sustainability, not pixels and bytes, he really had in his voice, The Voice of The Generation. Have a listen and you’ll hear what I mean – it’s beyond Architecture but a way of living for [...]

Australia and AsiaPac: Corporate Blog and Finance 2.0

I’m never 100% sure, if a corporate blog is written by a PR person, or by a genuine C-level exec. But I can have a good guess. It doesn’t have to be the CEO, but someone with passion, a helicopter view of not only the business but the sector and someone with ability to affect [...]

Job?: Chief Corporate Social Responsibility 2.0 (Australia)

Is your company planning for the next generation? Fair Trade bananas only please. (video GoodbyeToTheNormals) We don’t see a lot of Chief Social Responsibility Officer jobs (at the C-Level executive) in Australia, but that is about to change. (here’s one in Japan) Wanna see what the job description would look like? Chief Social Responsibility Officer [...]