Corporate Social Responsibility News: Seventh Generation and Kaplan EduNeering Launch Sustainability Institute; CorporateRegister.com's CSR Report Tally and Voting for 2010 Awards
Film dramas "Precious" and "The Last Station" earned five nominations each, including best feature, on Tuesday for Independent Spirit Awards, the leading honors for movies made outside Hollywood's major studios.
Also among the best film nominees for the awards that often foreshadow indie movies competing for Oscars were romantic comedy "(500) Days of Summer," "Amreeka" and "Sin Nombre."
Now that all submissions are closed to our App star Awards, we'd like to shed some light on some of those apps although we have not revealed yet the 30 pre selected.
We just pressed the send button. All the developers who submitted an App to the App Star Awards will now receive a confirmation email that their app was submitted.
There are only nine weeks left for CR stakeholders worldwide to evaluate entrants and vote in the third annual CR Reporting Awards (CRRA`10), the only independent global annual awards for corporate responsibility (CR) reporting. Through Friday, 29th January 2010, registered users of CorporateRegister.com can vote online at http://www.corporateregister.com/crra. Other interested stakeholders are welcome to sign up free of charge at http://www.corporateregister.com in order to vote in the awards.
The CRRA'10 solicited reports published over the last year between October 2008 and October 2009. This year, 130 leading international reporting companies from over 40 sectors entered reports across nine categories:
-Best Overall Report
-Best First Time Report
-Best SME Report
-Best Integrated Report
-Best Carbon Disclosure
-Creativity in Communications
-Relevance & Materiality
-Openness & Honesty
-Credibility through Assurance
Voters may select up to 5 choices in each award category and those with a first choice for each award category are eligible to enter the Voters' Prize Draw and win cash prizes (totalling £2,500).
The CRRA is managed by CorporateRegister.com, the CR resources website and provider of the world's largest online directory of CR Reports. The CRRA identify and acknowledge the best CR reports and reward quality disclosure as a contribution to the raising of global reporting standards.
Have you ever heard the term hairography? I heard it for the first time last night while watching Glee, a wonderful show about a group of misfits who find common ground through their fledgling glee club.
In this episode, the glee club gets a sneak peak at their competition who put on a very entertaining show. They start to worry that they're being outmatched, but one of them declares that it's just hairography: basically, whipping your head around a lot to place the focus on your wild hair and distract the audience from your lack of actual talent.
Isn't that true of a lot of marketing campaigns and websites? Maybe there's some snazzy animation, or maybe they're using the latest social media tool, but in some way the focus is on how cool the work is so as to distract you from the lack of substance.
It's something to think about next time you're reviewing the winners of a particular award show or the portfolio of a particular agency. Is there real substance? Talent? Are they meeting real business objectives? Or is it just hairography?
