What are the skills or competencies required for a CSR role today?

This is often quite a difficult task to define the skills or competences required to become a CSR professional due to the diverse roles and range of disciplines involved, and the relative nascent stage of the CSR field itself, which Continue reading

Social media: the next frontier in CSR & stakeholder engagement

Last week two new studies exploring the intersections of social media and CSR were published, and widely commented online. The respective results of both studies clearly demonstrate how big the gap remains between all the great stakeholder engagement opportunities offered Continue reading

Weekend links #1

My weekend links are the weekly roundup of what I came across this week on the web – blogosphere, twittosphere, and online media – and that are representative of what’s going in the CSR and Sustainability space. In few words, some Continue reading

How to ramp up your CSR & Sustainability communications: Learning lessons from the Obama campaign

The “Obama For America – Change We Need” campaign has recently won two major prizes at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in France – a global festival for those working in advertising and related fields. For its  masterful mix Continue reading

CSR: Which stage are you at? Compliant? Engaged? Transformative?

While reading the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Blog, I came across this post about a new report – “Moving to Next Generation Corporate Citizenship” – recently published by the Center for Corporate Citizenship Germany. This report sucessfully shows Continue reading

Clay Shirky’s TED talks and How social media has changed CSR

I have just finally found few quiet minutes to watch Clay Shirky‘s talk (NYU professor and great social media thinker) given earlier this month at the TED@State conference on ‘How Twitter Can Make History‘, as we are today witnessing “the Continue reading