We have often discussed the roles corporate philanthropy plays both in supporting environmental, social, educational (etc.) causes and in the arguments that corporations should not be preemptively philanthropic as corporations (though even those who criticize ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’/CSR tend to encourage share-holders to be philanthropic). A recent argument has flared up over Apple’s unwillingness to […]
#SocialNetworks: Divying Up The Duties Of Social Media In Your Organization
Every company has its own time and budget windows to complete its projects. And developing the social-media ‘face’ of an organization requires both time and a budget. The good folks at EngageYourCause.com, who we featured yesterday, encourage the establishment of a ‘listening post’ first-and-foremost. The listening post creates an online window to pursue research on […]
#Tech: iPad Indeed Inspires Nonprofit Community
Just before Apple‘s iPad first launched in early April, the MKCREATIVE blog presented a two-part discussion of how the device specifically and the advent of a truly functioning tablet market/community generally should be taken seriously by the nonprofit community. The iPad’s convenience as a communications tool, we argued, meant that nonprofits and mission-based companies could, […]