October 2005 - Posts

• CSR and Human Rights Day Two

  Day two of the CBSR conference began with a pull-no-punches presentation by Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada . His message is simple . . . voluntarism in addressing human rights issues doesn't work; you need legally binding Read More... Posted 19 October 2005 19:17 by Boyd Neil | 2 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• CSR and Human Rights

  I am attending a conference in Toronto organized by Canadian Business for Social Responsibility called Human Rights: Everyone's Business . A two day conference, today's agenda included one panel on which three of the four panelists were H&K clients . Read More... Posted 18 October 2005 20:24 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Social Signals

  A friend of mine, Alexandra Samuel , who introduced some in H&K's Toronto office to the finer points of online discourse through something called "dialogue panels", has launched a new venture based out of Vancouver called Social Signal . The intended Read More... Posted 07 October 2005 08:30 by Boyd Neil | 19 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency

• Community Organizing for the Individual

  A new website has added an arrow to the quiver of individuals who want to organize a cause, a campaign, a social event, even a music gig. Yesterday, Dan Gillmor drew his reader's attention to Pledgebank which is a way to "aggregate pledges into a critical Read More... Posted 06 October 2005 08:01 by Boyd Neil | 0 Comments Filed under: CSR and Transparency