http://allaboutadvocacy.com Sun, 22 May 2011 17:27:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I guess you are sucessful when you see others doing similar surveys on advocacy. This one is definitely more fun than most because of its cool infographics. The study on brand advocacy was done with Dr. Kathleen Ferris-Costa at the University of Rhode Island, College of Business Administration. Some of ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2011/05/22/advocacy-feels-good/ I just thought this was interesting. An app for complainers. complainapp.com aggregates complaints about business and uses the power of advocates to tell companies when they are not doing their job. On the website they also have trending topics and complaints by industry. Their tag line is Let's Complain Together. That ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2011/04/20/complainers-united/ I just read an interesting article about badvocates. I love seeing how the concept of badvocacy has grown over the years. Weber Shandwick invented the term and it has taken off. The article was on Mashable and one of the pieces of advice on dealing with badvocates was particularly compelling. ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2011/02/26/using-avatars-to-combat-badvocacy/ The University of Arizona announced today Monday that it is forming an institute on Civility. The honorary chairmen of the National Institute for Civil Discourse will be former Presidents' Bill Clinton and George W Bush. The director said they "would focus on political disagreements from the grass roots all the ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2011/02/21/institute-for-civility/   Wanted to update everyone on some interesting research on advocacy we recently did on how social media can be employed to further corporate responsibility. We (KRC Research and the Social Impact team at Weber Shandwick) found that crowdsourcing plays a vital role in helping companies drive engagement for their corporate ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2011/02/19/crowdsourced-advocacy/ An interesting article surfaced last week on a wholly new corporate position -- Chief Good Officers (CGOs). The article mentioned our recent research on the impact of crowdsoucing on corporate social responsibility. The CGO would be the newest evolution of the CSR Officer. The idea is that this person would ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2011/02/18/chief-good-officers/ Female advocates complain less! Really. So says a study by Empathica about how men and women interact online with retail brands. According to the research, women are more likely to recommend a brand, product or service through social media than men -- 35% vs. 28%.  And they do this often...10+ ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2011/01/18/men-complaining-badly/  Maybe I am late to the party but I wanted to share this excellent idea where people can make a difference. Portland-based Seth Reams lost his job and he and his girlfriend wanted to do something meaningful with some of the extra time they had on their hands after searching ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2011/01/06/time-to-help/    I thought it would be worthwhile to post this quote from Admiral Thad Allen, the national incident commander for the Hoizon oil spill incident.  He is quoted in an interview in Harvard Business Review (November 2010) as saying: With social media and the 24 hour news cycle, there will never again be ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2010/12/24/person-of-the-year-the-public/ We take social advocacy seriously. Our Social Impact team just surveyed with KRC Research over 200 executives responsible for CSR type activities to learn how they were managing some of their challenges today. What did we learn? We learned how important impact actually is. Having an impact on critical issues is ... http://allaboutadvocacy.com/2010/12/04/socially-impactful-csr/