CSR in Germany – Passing Fancy or Necessity?
The supplement to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, CSR-Unternehmen, Gesellschaft, Verantwortung, (CSR: Enterprises, Society, Responsibility) has been lying on my desk for a few days now. Obviously, we at betterplace take a huge interest in this topic, since our platform offers companies the opportunity to present their social commitment in a completely novel and transparent way, [...]
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A Lion against Child Labour
Gold Lion in Cannes in the category Design. (from osocio) Child labour is a big problem in India. People in India are averse to contributing for social causes because they feel their contributions won’t make a difference. The objective of this piece from the Care Foundation was to reverse the trend and drive donations towards [...]
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Teenage-Power
On Sunday I attended the confirmation ceremony of Anton Kleihues, a fifteen year old from Berlin, who is also active in betterplace junior. At the end of the church ceremony, Anton got up announcing that the collection would go to Choki Traditional Arts School in Bhutan on betterplace.org. Amongst his group they had discussed various [...]
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Use your cognitive surplus
The cognitive surplus of the web and how we can use it for make the world a better place. Recently I have seen the speech of Professor Clay Shirky held at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on 23th of april 2008. He brought up a good example to picture what is happening with [...]
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Social Design on Osocio.org
Osocio, the highly entertaining and eye-opening website for social advertising and non-profit campaigns from all over the world, currently presents the Social Design Video in which betterplace also has a part. Together with the team of the Social Design Site we are planning a film festival for autumn 2008 in Berlin with films, dealing with the design of social [...]
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Welcome Linus Behnke!
From one moment to the other he went completely pale. Till and Annika were on their way to a business date in Hamburg. They had just boarded the ICE train in Berlin and had been travelling for barely 15 minutes. When Till’s phone rang. It was Svenja speaking. She explained to her man that their [...]
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Tags: annika, baby, deutsche bahn, ICE train, ludwigslust, till behnke
Islam and Corporate Social Responsibility
Hanniah Tariq, in an interesting post on Social Edge, asks, what role cultural differences play with regards to CSR. She writes: Clearly expectations with respect to business vary from region to region and developing countries in particular provide a socio-economic, religious and cultural context for corporate responsibility, which is in many ways different from developed countries. Hence it is [...]
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Tags: CSR, Culture and Public Action, Culture matters, Islamic Banking, Timur Kuran
Thanks, Magazin. Thanks, Springer and Winckler
As a money saving start-up, office furniture is not something we have invested in. As a recent article about betterplace in jetzt.de stated: “The office furniture consists of a few wooden tables … the employees sit on excercise balls” Now, thanks to Matthias Dietz and Stephan Dornhofer and Markus Steber from Magazin we have at least 3 [...]
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