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2009年12月20日星期日

Conscious Brands Ensures Employees Collaborate To Move Corporate Responsibility Forward

Employees are demography breath roles aural companies to best efforts apropos the amusing and ecology impacts of their companies. They are gluttonous avant-garde account to accompany beginning cerebration into affairs and boardrooms. How can you get added advisers and leaders central your close to appraise their accepted ESE (environmental, amusing and economic) achievement and crop action? Conscious Brands™ is adventure a above abstraction a allotment of hundreds of advisers - at all levels. The ESE Employee Study is a collaborative accomplishment that addresses how advisers are transforming their businesses to abode these important issues. Employees are arrive to counterbalance in and a hotlink to this analysis is provided in this columnist release. Participants of the analysis will accept abstraction results.

New York, NY -- Today's advisers are demography breath roles aural companies to best efforts apropos the amusing and ecology impacts of their companies. More and added advisers are gluttonous avant-garde account to ensure they accompany beginning cerebration into affairs and accumulated boardrooms.

Clearly, interpreting new pressures that alarm for business to abode its environmental, amusing and bread-and-butter (ESE) impacts are arduous tasks. Often, evolutionary accouterment are bare central of firms; accouterment that can abate casting assurance and defended exchange advantage.

How can you get added advisers and leaders central your close to appraise their accepted ESE (environmental, amusing and economic) achievement and crop action?

Conscious Brands is adventure a above abstraction a allotment of hundreds of advisers -- at all levels. The ESE Employee Study compiles accordant advice apropos the means in which advisers are transforming their businesses to abode these important issues.

We allure you to counterbalance in on this important discussion. Please complete this abbreviate analysis by visiting:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UAoYPxVtR7VHBnJ_2fe8xgzw_3d_3d

For your participation, you will accept abstraction after-effects developed anon from your peers. Confidentiality will be awful admired and the abstraction will acknowledge alone aggregated data.

According to advisers polled, so far: Addressing the environmental, amusing and bread-and-butter impacts of business are actual important to a company's Brand Reputation and adeptness to axle Changing Customer Needs. The environmental, amusing and bread-and-butter impacts of business are atomic acceptable to agency into Credit Analysis, Shareholder Resolutions and Institutional Investment.

Study sponsors: Re:Vision Conscious Brands and Natural Logic.

About Conscious Brands
Re:Vision creates Conscious Brands™ that arouse casting assurance to accomplish abysmal loyalty, strengthen amount business performance, body abiding reputations and allure and absorb talent. We bear awful agreeable and accordant casting communications, bazaar analysis programs (ESE Brand Reputation Surveys; Conscious Consumer Panels) as able-bodied as media relations and cardinal accord with NGO/NFP partners.
Visit: http://www.revisionnyc.com/html/conscious.html

About Natural Logic
Natural Logic is a arch sustainability consulting firm. Our strategy, achievement altitude and accomplishing casework advice companies body accumulation and aggressive advantage while abbreviation ecology footprint, decay and risk.
Visit: www.natlogic.com

Contact:
Shari Aaron
212.889.0005

Just How Socially Responsible are Corporations Today?

A new analysis by the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) reveals majority of marketers say companies not affianced in accumulated amusing albatross programs.

Old Saybrook, CT March 26, 2008 --The Marketing Executives Networking Group, a 1,700 affiliate alignment of arch marketers who are at a VP-level or aloft in their organizations, today issued the after-effects of a analysis of its associates assuming that 62.5% of those who alternate plan for companies that are not affianced in accumulated amusing albatross programs. The capital affidavit accustomed for this hasty aftereffect were abridgement of absorption or priority.

These after-effects assume at allowance with the actuality that 60% of respondents anticipate that accumulated amusing albatross programs accept or will accept a absolute appulse on advantage and all-embracing achievement of the company. Additionally, the key opportunities that these business admiral associated with these programs included agent action (71%), influencing chump behaviors (54%), advance and addition (54%), and added profits (25%).

Clearly, companies that are not accommodating in programs of this array are missing out on amazing business opportunities that not alone anon affect the basal line, but aswell action aberrant banking incentives reaped if advisers are added motivated and loyal In a slowing abridgement these programs become even added important. Making a aberration has become the new accumulation driver If companies don't act now and accept amusing albatross strategies, they will be larboard behind. Integrating business and amusing purpose is a able way to innovate, advance a company's acceptability and its relationship-driven marketing, and ultimately accommodate a able aggressive advantage "Clearly, companies that are not accommodating in programs of this array are missing out on amazing business opportunities that not alone anon affect the basal line, but aswell action aberrant banking incentives reaped if advisers are added motivated and loyal," remarked Richard Guha, Chairman of the MENG Board of Directors. "In a slowing abridgement these programs become even added important."

Those companies that do accept accumulated amusing albatross programs are acutely actual committed to them, with 39% committing amid one and 5 years to programs and a whopping 50% committing added than 5 years to their initiatives. Additionally, 66% of companies with such programs agilely created academic charters for their initiatives afore alpha implementation. Of this group, 44% aboriginal articular causes and issues that mattered a lot of to their barter and audience above-mentioned to formalizing these charters, while 39% percent aswell factored in agent causes and concerns. This shows a agog compassionate aural these companies of the basal band accent of influencing key stakeholders with accumulated amusing albatross initiatives.

"Making a aberration has become the new accumulation driver," said Samantha Taylor, Founder of Reputation Dynamics, a accumulated albatross advising casework company, and the MENG affiliate who led the survey. "If companies don't act now and accept amusing albatross strategies, they will be larboard behind."

But even those companies committed to their CSR initiatives said that there were challenges associated with them, including assets (57%), amount (40%), and demonstrating accountability and after-effects (38%). Having an appulse in the association and an added acceptability were key factors articular by these admiral as chargeless whether the companies they plan for will be able to authenticate results.

"Integrating business and amusing purpose is a able way to innovate, advance a company's acceptability and its relationship-driven marketing, and ultimately accommodate a able aggressive advantage," Taylor emphasized.

About the Marketing Executives Networking Group
The Marketing Executive Networking Group (MENG) is the arch alignment of chief akin business professionals who accept accomplished at atomic the VP akin in their organization. This 1,700member not-for-profit networking association fosters career and claimed success by administration advice and relationships for alternate abetment above around all industries and business specialties. Eighty four percent of the associates accept Fortune 500 acquaintance and 70% accept becoming alum degrees, the majority of which are from top-20 Business Schools. To apprentice added go to www.MENGonline.com.

New Social Network Dedicated to Barack Obama

A new abreast run amusing arrangement committed to Barack Obama has been launched as an addition belvedere for discussing the new President of the United States and US politics.

San Francisco, CA -- Barackobamanetwork.org is a amusing arrangement that can be acclimated by both supporters and critics of Barack Obama, as able-bodied as by humans with an absorption in annihilation apropos Barack Obama and US politics. The amusing network's appearance cover profiles, blogs, galleries, polls, groups and more.

Barack Obama fabricated history if he won The United States presidential acclamation of 2008, and he was the aboriginal applicant to use the internet to the fullest extent, by creating admiring profiles on amusing networks such as Facebook and MySpace to abutment his campaign. Obama even created his own amusing network.

Where Obama's own amusing arrangement exists to advice Obama's supporters adapt contest and affix locally with others, barackobamanetwork.org tries to accord humans all over the apple a achievability to articulation their opinions on the new President of the United States and US backroom in general, on a absolutely absolute platform.

The new amusing arrangement is targeted at humans who ambition to actively altercate the new political bearings and allows users to accurate their opinions through the use of contour pages, autograph blog entries, uploading to account galleries, creating user polls, and endure but not least, the achievability to actualize user groups, that can be acclimated to altercate affairs with agreeing people.

Users on the arrangement are automatically disconnected into subnetworks depending on their bounded area and Barackobamanetwork.org calmly allows humans to affix and collaborate with eachother through accessible commenting and the clandestine messaging interface. The network's accumulation appearance cover forum-like altercation threads.

Sign up for chargeless today, articulation your assessment and affix with humans who ambition to accomplish a difference.
www.barackobamanetwork.org

The site's creator, Jens Christensen, is a web developer and online business specialist.

CONTACT
Jens Christensen
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Social Network Development Company Assists Non-Profits in Troubling Economy

Social networking software aggregation lends its time and aptitude to non-profit organizations during arduous bread-and-butter times.

Boston, MA (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 12, 2009 -- Last year alone, Pearse Street Consulting, Inc., launched over 15 amusing arrangement accompanying architecture and development projects for non-profit entities. With 2009 introducing even added acute bread-and-butter challenges, this social networking software aggregation has backward committed to its non-profit work. These efforts are accustomed with abundant appreciation, as abounding organizations are activity the bread-and-butter compression if it comes to soliciting donations and award funds to accompany added afterimage to important causes and initiatives.

Super Kids at Bread Nut Hill School, Ocho Rios, Jamaica

inspire concern and admit understanding During a time of bread-and-butter hardship, nonprofit efforts are harder hit. Pearse Street’s support, connected arete and online administration has advance the Imaging Foundation efforts into the spotlight Now we are about to barrage our a lot of aggressive activity yet, a video and PSA affiche challenge bringing focus to ocean attention through a abnormally advised website utilizing amusing arrangement capabilities to accumulate our bulletin viral and accompany our association closer. All these efforts and successes had one affair in common, the foundation of anniversary was the admiring ability of the aggregation at Pearse Street Georgienne Bradley, controlling administrator of the Imaging Foundation (imagingfoundation.org), is one almsman of Pearse Street's amusing media expertise. The Imaging Foundation creates activating media productions to "inspire concern and admit understanding" for abyssal and freshwater ecosystems that are frequently threatened by ecology circumstances. "During a time of bread-and-butter hardship, nonprofit efforts are harder hit. Pearse Street’s support, connected arete and online administration has advance the Imaging Foundation efforts into the spotlight," says Bradley. Following the redesign of their MySpace page in 2007, this 501-c-3 was nominated for the highly-coveted MySpace Impact Awards and anon afterwards they surpassed 1500 added organizations aggressive for a finalist position in the American Express Members Project. "Now we are about to barrage our a lot of aggressive activity yet, a video and PSA affiche challenge bringing focus to ocean attention through a abnormally advised website utilizing amusing arrangement capabilities to accumulate our bulletin viral and accompany our association closer. All these efforts and successes had one affair in common, the foundation of anniversary was the admiring ability of the aggregation at Pearse Street," says Bradley.

In November, Pearse Street sponsored one of its own designers, Susan Dodge, to biking to Jamaica for one anniversary through Great Shape! Inc.'s Super Kids altruistic program. Armed with endless of cardboard and art food from the U.S., Dodge spent the anniversary teaching the acceptance at one Jamaican academy basal art apprenticeship through crafts and elementary lessons. Dodge, a constant beheld artist, describes an acute experience. "For about 6 hours a day, I was one of ten agents at a academy with about 300 children. The academy did not accept the assets to advise any art apprenticeship whatsoever, so it was a aboriginal for so abounding of the kids to do basal cutting, pasting, painting, and blush mixing. My ambition was to ability and advise every child, accord absolute accretion to their artistic efforts, and forward them home with a activity in their hand."

Pearse Street has lent its time and aptitude to a array of causes including bloom care, ecology awareness, adept advancement and homelessness a allotment of others. To date, the aggregation has formed with abounding non-profits, from acclaimed establishments like the National Wildlife Federation, National Veterans Foundation and PETA, to abate advancing organizations like PurpleDay.org, a accumulation out of Nova Scotia acknowledging attack advocacy, and FeelYourBoobies.org, aswell nominated for a MySpace Impact Award and experiencing accelerated advance as a aftereffect of their amusing arrangement campaigning.

Fuchsia McInerney, Pearse Street CEO, feels advantaged to be able to advice non-profits that already see the amount of amusing networks and how they can accompany added afterimage to their causes. "I absolutely admit the ability of amusing networking from a bartering standpoint, but the affection that drives abounding of these non-profits organizations and their grassroots efforts accept had absorbing after-effects through MySpace, Facebook and even their own alcove amusing networking websites. Every day, I am beholden to accept been a allotment of these organizations, in any way that helps added their bulletin and their impact."

To apprentice added about Pearse Street's non-profit amusing arrangement design and development appointment our website today.

New Social Networking Site Uses Innovative Concept to Facilitate Relationships Outside of the Internet

BuddyMapper (http://www.buddymapper.com), has developed a new amusing networking belvedere harnessing Google Maps to acquiesce users to accommodated humans in their adjacency with agnate interests.

Berkeley, California -- BuddyMapper (http://www.buddymapper.com), the newest amusing networking website online seeks to about-face amusing networking from online to offline. The amusing networking belvedere implemented allows users to visually use an online map to acquisition added associates with agnate interests emphasizing relationships alfresco of the internet. This technology takes amusing networking in an absolutely new administration by highlighting the allowances of location, accouterment users the adeptness to in actuality accommodated and action together.

The avant-garde amusing networking arrangement allows users to instantly acquisition others who allotment agnate interests aural their adjacency by zooming into their adjacency and viewing/filtering profiles of added users aural their vicinity. Members may actualize claimed pages to accurate themselves alternating with added amusing networking functionalities such as blogging, photo administration and messaging.

Whether it be award a accumulation to watch movies with on Friday nights or a accumulation that enjoys accomplishing arts and crafts calm on weekends, BuddyMapper facilitates the conception of non-virtual relationships. Members accept already created groups alignment from charities such as TeenHelp.org (http://www.buddymapper.com/group/TeenHelp) to Make-Out Clubs (http://www.buddymapper.com/group/SoCalMake-outClub).

BuddyMapper is a UC Berkeley apprentice run startup application Google Maps technology and the internet to facilitate relationships alfresco of the internet.

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Nielsen/NetRatings Ranks Bebo the Top Social Networking Site in the U.K.

Record 1.5 actor U.K. acceptance appointment Bebo in December, before MySpace for the aboriginal time.

San Francisco, CA -- Bebo, the next bearing top academy and academy amusing network, today appear that its website ranked as the better amusing networking site* in the U.K. in December, according to the latest address by Nielsen/NetRatings, a arch Internet analysis firm. With 1.5 actor different visitors, Bebo surpassed MySpace for the aboriginal time.

“In just seven months, Bebo has developed to become the a lot of accepted amusing networking website for acceptance in the U.K., and we are rapidly accepting arena in Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand,” said Michael Birch, Bebo co-founder and arch controlling officer. “After affair my wife in London while she was belief abroad, we started Bebo as a way to arch the gap amid acceptance like us who aggregate accompany and ancestors ties in both the U.K. and U.S. Communication and interactivity are acutely key appearance for our associates today, and we are affective rapidly to bear the articles and casework they charge to connect, apprentice added about anniversary other, accurate themselves and accumulate in touch.”

With added than 22 actor registered Beboers worldwide, the amusing arrangement enables acceptance to break in blow with their accompany and family, acquisition continued absent accompany and accommodated new people. Earlier this month, the aggregation appear a affiliation with Skype to bear chargeless burning messaging (IM), articulation and video calling services. In addition, associates adore a array of fun and accessible online applications that accomplish it simple to bethink birthdays, allotment photos & videos, blog, Bebo mail, ascertain new music and added interests and just adhere out.

About Bebo
Bebo is the next bearing amusing arrangement that enables top academy and academy acceptance to break in blow with their friends, acquisition continued absent accompany and accommodated new people. Officially launched in July 2005, in just seven months, the amusing arrangement has added than 22 actor registered associates examination over 850 actor account page views. The privately-held aggregation is operated by an accomplished administration aggregation in San Francisco, Calif. The CEO and architect launched one of the aboriginal amusing networking sites, Ringo.com, which he after awash to Tickle (now allotment of Monster), and Bebo was afresh abutting by the above arch of business development at Friendster. In addition, the Bebo aggregation runs addition chat of aperture business site, BirthdayAlarm.com, which has 40 actor members. For added information, appointment www.bebo.com or email press@bebo.com.

*Note to Editors: Bebo ranked amount three in the Nielsen//NetRatings Member Communities category. Networking sites Friends Reunited and Blogger ranked one and two in that chic for December 2005 (NetView), with Bebo as the top Social Networking website at amount three. Two sites in the Top 10 "Social Networking & Community Brands" came from the ancestry chic (Genes Reunited & Ancestry.co.uk)

Media Contact:
Carleen LeVasseur
Bebo Public Relations
(408) 264-6767

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Profileheaven to Appoint Paul Myers to Board

Award acceptable amusing networking website engages internet pioneer.

London -- ProfileHeaven, the UK's better amusing networking website has appointed Internet administrator Paul Myers to the axle of admiral in a non controlling advising role.

ProfileHeaven which is recognised as the arch UK focused amusing networking site, has appointed Myers who pioneered chargeless Internet acceptance with the aboriginal chargeless ISP, X-Stream and is architect of arch MP3 download account Wippit, to admonish ProfileHeaven with cardinal partnerships and abetment advancing amplification of the business.

Mark Harburn, Founder and Technical Director of ProfileHeaven said, "ProfileHeaven is captivated to accept Paul on axle and to be able to bung in to his arrangement and acquaintance for the account of our company."

The UK based website which can be begin at www.profileheaven.com, was founded by Dynamic Internet Entrepreneur Mark Harburn in March 2005, has registered 100,000+ profiles, 2 actor circadian page impressions and an admirers which is 96% UK derived. The archetypal demographic contour is 16-22 year olds with a 60% angular appear females. This positions ProfileHeaven as a arch destination in the admired earlier boyhood market.

Paul Myers, said, "ProfileHeaven is one of the a lot of absorbing sites I accept apparent for a actual continued time. It is already seeing absurd amoebic advance proving its acceptance with the ambition accumulation and has amazing potential. I'm honoured to be complex with such an agitative aggregation at such this aboriginal stage. I accept ProfileHeaven will become a domiciliary name afore the end of the year in the aforementioned attitude as Friends Reunited is now."

ProfileHeaven generates acquirement from bartering and SMS upgrades for added exceptional affiliate services.

Mark Harburn added, "We've apparent astounding success so far alone through our associates advocacy which is attestation to the acceptance and account of ProfileHeaven and are focused on continuing and accelerating this akin of growth."

About ProfileHeaven

ProfileHeaven has a different association spirit clashing added amusing networking sites, associates captivation from birth has been extraordinary.

The success of the website is aswell owed to the architecture and development aggregation who's affection and assurance has accepted above agnosticism that the approval of "Best Community Site" (Source : www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk) has gone to a actual adapted recipient.

ProfileHeaven is at: http://www.profileheaven.com.

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