David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Feb 1, 2012, 8:53 am
  Hi Everybody. It’s taken a while to get here but the world has finally been introduced to the new Coethica website. We had a handful of technical problems and distractions that saw the previous site slimmed down to 2 ancient pages for far too long. We took the decision to go live relatively ...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jan 26, 2012, 9:00 am
The things I love most about doing what I do are the amazing people I get to meet, no two days are even close to being similar and the exposure to a countless stream of world changing ideas. I’ve always been a natural connector and constantly looking to learn from new and strange sources. The Coe...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Dec 2, 2011, 4:53 pm
This week for no reason in particular my attention has been gravitating towards football. It may well be a returning passion after recovery following eight years worth of burn out. Behind the media hype  I’m constantly on the look out for any beacons of hope in the form of CSR related development...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Nov 27, 2011, 6:40 pm
photo via The Guardian Rest in peace Gary Speed MBE, I hope you’ve found the tranquility you were looking for. Gary was a great professional player, national team manager, true ambassador for the sport of football and an incredibly humble and genuine person. Football will remember and miss you ...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Oct 25, 2011, 1:59 pm
The European Union publishes 2011 – 2014 strategy on CSR The new definition of CSR in the eyes of the European Union is The responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society. It’s only a fifteen page document and well worth a read as another stake in the ground for the accelerating d...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Oct 9, 2011, 8:01 pm
Smaller businesses are the lifeblood of any vibrant economy. Small is not only beautiful, it’s essential. Last week at Coethica we created a new CSR for SMEs LinkedIn group. The main reason for this was an overdue project to better facilitate discussion for a too often overlooked sector when con...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Sep 11, 2011, 10:01 pm
“The world has changed – reporting must too.” When the economic crisis hit many more than a handful of people became harbingers of CSR and Sustainability doom, how wrong they were. Not only has the disasters at the hands of financiers and governments cemented the responsibility agenda at th...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jul 25, 2011, 11:04 pm
I love technology; always have, always will. After all it could help save our planet one day, ably abetted by passionate real people of course. When I was three (according to my parents) I took apart my first clock to find the tick-tock. Some things haven’t changed in 36 years. Last week I spent ...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jul 17, 2011, 9:06 pm
When you’re asked to judge six entries in a student technology competition it could be easy to not relate to the more than 350,000 first round entries from across the entire globe. Wait a few hours and throw in appearances by the Salesman Mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg and Eva Longoria and th...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jul 14, 2011, 8:22 pm
Today 3BL Media proudly announced the acquisition of Justmeans. I’m glad the news is out as I’m no good at keeping secrets! 3BL’s CEO, Greg Schneider, has a powerful entrepreneurial drive to make a commercially successful company in the niche area that CSR is, and hopefully beginning climbin...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jun 22, 2011, 10:06 pm
If beauty is merely in the eye of the beholder, nobody has told L’Oreal. They have 66,000 employees, sell 161 products every second in 130 countries and produce 5.4 billion products every year. Yesterday saw L’Oreal step up its sustainability engagement with the first of four planned global st...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jun 13, 2011, 8:15 am
My briefest post ever. Watch this video and don’t think about climate change this week:       Still think it’s all unrelated? Words feel irrelevant. What will our climate gift us next year?           Tagged: Climate Change, disaster, drought, Environment, flood, global warm...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jun 7, 2011, 7:55 pm
  Today saw the release of the 2010 UN Global Compact Annual Review and Implementation Survey. “While the sustainability movement has taken great strides in recent years, significant challenges remain,” said Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact. “Helping smaller compani...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jun 2, 2011, 9:38 pm
Photo via www.CostelloEntertainments.co.uk Apparently Henry Kissinger has been asked by the unchallenged and re-elected President, Sepp Blatter (@SeppBlatter), to clean up FIFA in the wake of the recent allegations of corruption. In my humble opinion there are more than a couple of similarities be...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - May 28, 2011, 8:28 pm
    UPDATE: Seems like my fun and speedily thrown together post during the UEFA Champions League Final has caused a bit of a stir, and rightly too. A few eagle eyed CSR friends noticed the deliberate mistake and passed the test. Honest. Yes, the team lacked a little gender diversity and was al...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Apr 28, 2011, 2:21 pm
The UK loses upwards of £17bn per year on poor employee engagement. Both the post’s headline and the statement above should attract your attention, and hopefully they are reinforced further by the latest research by LeapCR. It’s always been a difficult sell into UK businesses that allowing em...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Apr 27, 2011, 5:26 pm
This is the second in a series of posts about the great characters, interesting stories, inspiration and questions I’ve met over the years across the smaller business world. Most small business owners are social entrepreneurs whether know it or like it. I’ve not found many business that don’t...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Apr 17, 2011, 9:14 pm
It’s getting close to six months since I took the European Director reins at 3BLMedia and what a honeymoon it has been. 3BL were one of the first good friends I made when I stumbled into the blogosphere and Twitterverse  like Bambi on ice, instantly forging a strong and like-minded relationship....
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Apr 12, 2011, 8:16 pm
Having been to a few real world CSR events recently and not able to duck the subject of a certain “real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations” ...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Apr 4, 2011, 10:22 pm
The Skoll World Forum describes itself as: “the premier, international platform for accelerating entrepreneurial approaches and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues.” In reality it was far more surreal than that and not just another do-gooder conference. How else ...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Mar 30, 2011, 11:00 pm
It’s my first time at the Skoll World Forum and the previous couple of week’s worth of business trips had conspired to smother any expectations I may have had since receiving the invite. Without any thought of detailed expectations apart from a stellar line up and an educational trip to Oxford,...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Feb 7, 2011, 9:39 pm
I meet some amazing people on my travels through CSR (and all flavours of better business), especially those at the smaller end of the business market. As the lifeblood of every economy small businesses are at times a fairground of ride of passion, creativity, risk taking, commitment and increasing...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jan 31, 2011, 10:44 pm
Two posts in less than a week? I must officially be an insomniac. Tonight’s excuse is that I’m waiting for my laptop to painfully slowly back-up before setting off to Paris to take part in Societe Generale’s Citizen Act finale. I was invited to take part in today’s Guardian’s Sustainab...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jan 27, 2011, 10:12 pm
It’s 1.34am and I’m lying awake in a hotel room in London after 20 hours of travelling, meetings and an enjoyable, if whirlwind, debate entitled ‘CSR: Myth or Reality‘. I was invited to sit on the panel with Tony Needham, Head of Finance and Business from the New Economics Foundation and Cla...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jan 10, 2011, 8:57 pm
          Time for a quick update on my movements in the world of CSR. After a couple of years talking with all those friendly sorts at 3BL Media, sharing blog posts, tweets,  Skype conversations and even yours truly sat in front of a video camera for 3BL TV, we decided it was time to an...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Nov 25, 2010, 7:58 pm
Here’s a quick list of CSR mistakes made by small businesses. Some of the headings may sound a touch exaggerated, but trust me far worse happens in reality. Names have been with held to protect the not so innocent! Thinking CSR isn’t for smaller businesses I had to put his first didn’t I? T...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Nov 18, 2010, 9:45 pm
It’s easy for a CSR professional and full-time ethical consumer (isn’t that an oxymoron?)  to get excited when a another credible study unleashes tantalising phrases including: ‘Purpose is the 5th ‘P’ of marketing‘ and ‘86% of global consumers believes that business needs to place a...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Nov 9, 2010, 8:21 am
Twitter yet again demonstrates its power to unearth a nugget of information. I found a link to a launch of a new CSR guide for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Anybody or anything that grasps the Corporate Social Responsibility for smaller businesses nettle gets kudos from me. I’ve got to say ...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Nov 1, 2010, 8:50 pm
After six years of consultation and development, Geneva saw the launch of ISO 26000 yesterday. ISO 26000:2010 Guidance on social responsibility to be exact. Please note the word ‘Guidance‘, that is, this is not a certifiable standard. In an industry already accelerating toward burgeoning c...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Oct 28, 2010, 6:50 pm
This is a very public challenge to the football industry. Who will be the first professional football club to produce a credible non-financial report? I’m hoping to use this post to appeal to the intensely competitive nature of sport to raise the Corporate Social Responsibility / Sustainability b...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Oct 11, 2010, 7:36 pm
Book Review: The Three Secrets of Green Business   If you’re part of a small business in the UK and want an easy to read yet comprehensive guide to green business, go no further, even forget Google searches, this is it. I have been known to be less than complimentary towards some books and...
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Oct 11, 2010, 1:00 pm
New Guardian Sustainable Business website includes exciting new Twitter CSR feed.
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Sep 28, 2010, 7:07 pm
Financial service small business dominate Coethica's summer.
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Jun 22, 2010, 11:43 am
Coethica Training readies for launch and we're seeking honest feedback on CSR training, mentoring and our new Coethica Academy
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - May 22, 2010, 9:59 pm
Microsoft are beginning to place more emphasis on the CSR communications. This Accelerator Summit, including appearance by CEO Steve Ballmer, at their HQ gave a glimpse into the initiatives involved in their Corporate Citizenship programme
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - May 16, 2010, 9:35 pm
This week I'm off to the Microsoft Campus in Seattle to investigate their CEO Steve Ballmer and his senior executives about their CSR activity.
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - May 15, 2010, 9:01 am
Grassroots football campaigner Mal Lee receives prestigious Bobby Moore Award from HRH Prince William at FA Respect Awards ceremony for his 'Don't X The Line' campaign
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - May 5, 2010, 12:05 pm
I'm interviewing ex-NBA star John Amaechi next week on CSR & sport and thought it'd be fun to crowd source some questions.
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Apr 15, 2010, 5:14 pm
Is there too much imbalance betweeen encouraging new business start-ups and support for failing businesses?
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Mar 29, 2010, 10:29 pm
How can small businesses use social media to demonstrate their CSR good work?
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Mar 23, 2010, 10:22 pm
Can you help a sport & wildlife conservation project in Botswana? Football coaches and communications expert required.
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Mar 22, 2010, 12:57 am
Sport and CSR? Latest conference demonstrates there is a long way to go.
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David Connor posted an article on David Coethica's Blog - Mar 5, 2010, 1:59 pm
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