2012: Economic Sustainability and Evolution

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The first thoughts of 2012 are concerned with sustainability and evolution. Big challenges lie ahead for retailers, manufacturers and service providers. Scarcity of resources and lower spending power, coupled with easier search and information gathering are leading to changes in the way we consume. It seems obvious that companies cannot be sustainable if they are [...]

What can Africa teach the World about Technology?

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Author: Alasdair Munn tcg: The Communication Group After attending Africa Gathering this weekend, the central key words and phrases I gained were: Relevance Solution based approach Context Understanding your stakeholders. Sustainable (All four cornerstones) In the West, particularly the US, the most publicised and most visible business model for the development of collaborative and people-connecting [...]

The Sustainability of Social Media

I have always expected people who truly understand social media to also get sustainability. The two, in my mind are based upon the same principles. Being sustainable is not as simple as using low energy light bulbs, just as having a social media strategy is not a simple case of opening a Twitter account. Indeed [...]

tcg’s 10 ways Social Media and Sustainability Align in the Corporate World.

I would first like to thank Max Gladwell for his blog entitled, Ten Ways that Social Media and Sustainability Align, which sparked the idea for this blog post. At face value, social media and sustainability are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Social media is inherently intangible and lives online, while sustainability is concerned with the [...]

Mainstreaming Sustainability

Sustainable Life Media has a great article about Tesco’s (UK’s largest supermarket chain) CEO Sir Terry Leahy wanting to “create a mass movement in green consumption” by making it easier and more affordable for customers to buy green products. A few years ago I would have put this down to a publicity stunt. I was [...]

I Want it All

“I want it all and I want it now,” written by Queen and released in the late 1980’s, sums up where we are today in the US. We relate everything to self. “What does it mean to me?” “What can I get out of it?” We apply this mantra to our lives with gusto. This [...]