The summer has been distracting with vacations and glorious hot days. Our postings have not been as frequent but we still muse about advocacy all the time. Thanks for your patience and followship.
Thinking about advocates, in an article in the recent McKinsey Quarterly on leading business and technology trends, advocacy of course came up. In [...]
There is a group in France called La Barbe or “The Beard” that advocates for more women on boards in that country. Apparently the women show up in disguise (yes, wearing beards!) at annual meetings to let these female-few companies hear a piece of their minds. The women wear the beards for fear of retribution and [...]
Tags: Advocacy, board members, La BarbeI never thought about it but when I searched, I found nearly 1.4 million quotes about advocacy. And on the site I just linked to, there were several about social entrepreneurs which is a good way of talking about advocates. The one below is short and to the point about advocacy. However, sometimes just [...]
Tags: Advocacy, social entrepreneurFast Company just issued their list of most innovative companies and new on the list is Patients Like Me. It is a very smart idea that benefits many and provides patients with their own advocate communities to discuss chronic ailments and treatment. Patients can absolutely benefit from each other’s experiences. The idea is so [...]
Tags: Advocacy, community groups, medical professionAdvocates for the truth. Interesting article about an organization that helps debunk rumors and urban legends….snopes.com. A site like this certainly has a place in this shifting and shifty online world. Take a read about how two individuals started their web site exploring urban legends and ended up being one of the first sites [...]
Tags: Advocacy, reputation, snopes.comAre we making too many generalizations about digital natives, those people born between 1980 and 2000, who we consider digital advocates as well. An article in The Economist reasons that there is as much variation among digital natives as among generations. Of course, not every one, has access to technology as we sometimes fool ourselves [...]
Tags: Advocacy, digital natives, Economist, high intensity advocates, Pew Research Center, Weber ShandwickGoogle today launched a person finder to quickly connect those looking for missing people in Chile and those with information about earthquake victims. You can choose between – “I’m looking for someone” and “I have information about someone”, and then query the database or enter new information. A great way to advocate for people searching [...]
Tags: Advocacy, Chile, Chile earthquake, earthquake, Google, person finderWhat would you advocate for if you were given $100 to give away and report back? Interesting thought, right? Courtney Martin gave each of nine friends that amount and asked them to report back one month later on their advocacy choice. This appeared in the New York Times. They were also invited into the Secret [...]
Tags: Advocacy, philantrophyJimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and Andrea Weckerle, founder and president of CiviliNation, wrote this oped for the WSJ at the very end of December. I took some time off from blogging over the holidays (sanity check!) but saved this for my next blog post. It is the perfect coda to 2009 where incivility [...]
Tags: Advocacy, Badvocates, online civilityWe were very proud today when our own advocate, Weber Shandwick’s Chairman Jack Leslie, was appointed by President Obama to be Chairman of the African Development Foundation’s (USADF) Board of Directors. For those of us who know Jack and see him at the office every day or visiting other offices around the world with [...]
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