Corporate Social Responsibility
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009With this post, we’re pleased to welcome Nelson Fabian as a guest blogger. Nelson is the Executive Director of the National Environmental Health Association in Denver, Colorado.
As counterintuitive as this may sound, I believe the swine origin H1N1 outbreak may soon prove to be one of the best things that could have happened to us.
It [...]
The Green Meetings Portal Goes Live
Thursday, April 16th, 2009The Green Meetings Portal went live earlier this week.
Earlier this year, we announced that The Conference Publishers was joining with the Green Meeting Industry Council (GMIC) to launch the world’s first conference content portal. I’m tremendously pleased and proud to announce that the promise is now, finally, a reality.
The Portal begins life with coverage of [...]
A Couple of Million Jobs at Stake
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009BREAKING NEWS:
On March 10, The Huffington Post published my blog item on the meetings industry crisis and the Kerry bill now before the U.S. Congress.
The central argument, drawing on data from MPI Foundation Canada’s study of the economic impact of meetings and events, was that the attack on meetings in the U.S. could touch a [...]
$8,500 Buys a School
Monday, March 9th, 2009Last Thursday night, we bought about one-thirtieth of a school.
That’s an astonishing statement for anyone who’s ever put in the hundreds of volunteer hours that it takes to get a new school built or an older one renovated—or to prevent a perfectly good school from being closed—in North America. The last time I checked, a [...]
A Moment of Clarity
Thursday, February 19th, 2009There was a quiet moment of realization that I took away from MPI’s MeetDifferent conference in Atlanta.
One of the Monday morning breakouts was an Unconference session, where participants facilitated table conversations on the topics of their choice. As part of the coverage we were producing for MPI, I sat down at a table discussion on [...]
Debris in All Directions
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin’ now.
Is it a prepaid surprise, or C.O.D.?
The Music Man
Lyric by Meredith Willson
1957
The Wells Fargo Wagon is beginning to look like a train wreck in all directions.
Meeting professionals have been hearing all about the pushback Wells Fargo ran into, in the media and in the U.S. Congress, until it [...]
How Incentives Can Change the World (And How the World Can Change Incentives)
Friday, February 13th, 2009ATLANTA – A tantalizing question is emerging from the raging debate over incentive meetings, employee retreats, and the appropriate use of U.S. government bailout dollars:
Can the principles and practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) help reassert the legitimacy of meetings, the industry that plans them, and the client organizations that are now weighing whether to [...]
Another Bulletin from CSAE in Vancouver
Sunday, October 5th, 2008I’m rushing to put a few words down before I catch the early bus to the day’s first events here at CSAE. Yesterday was amazing. The sessions were very informative—they made me wish I could be in two places at once.
First, I attended a session on Social Networking and Media [...]
Drawing the Lines
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008There is nothing difficult about the concept of corporate social responsibility. It’s simply a matter of doing business in a way that respects the environment in which we live and the community in which we work.
It gets tough when we try to flesh out those easily described principles in a way that we can measure—in [...]