Social media expert Mitch Joel recently spoke to a business lunch audience here in Burlington, and one big point he made may have burst a little bubble for many a company considering a jump onto Facebook or Twitter because … Read on >

With a foot in both the academic and business worlds currently – I find myself intrigued that a lot of colleges/universities are taking such a lead in committing their facilities and community to new journeys in sustainability, while corporations are lagging way behind.   Some companies may be ramping up  … Read on >

New “Shared Responsibility” research from Cone LLC finds that companies are failing to engage consumers in their social responsibility efforts. Has your company already begun to address this, or is it one of the slow starters?   What, praytell, are you waiting for?

Some of the Cone numbers that prove … Read on >

Updated: Noon, eastern time, 3/10/10 – this poll has closed.

Thanks to plentiful submissions, we now have a big list of incredible women who have made their mark in sustainability.  Because the polling widget I’m using limited us to 64, I left off some names that seemed to represent more … Read on >

Perhaps I’ve not been clear enough lately.  Just as marketing to women really should not have been some hugely new concept when it started getting noticed a decade ago, so too should marketing to the sustainable consumer NOT be considered a whole new, hard to learn, concept.  In both cases, … Read on >

These days “the next big thing” apparently matters a lot less to consumers, and this cultural shift should certainly influence the way brands develop products and marketing strategies for the near future.  Consider what Nancy Koehn writes in a Harvard Business Review article entitled “American Consumption and the New … Read on >

A few years ago, the trend predictions were that consumers and businesses would start to go “green.” How true it was! Today, “green” has morphed into “sustainability,” and that concept is by no means a short term trend, but a much longer term movement.  Because of that, many brands (but … Read on >

As stereotypes and many scientific interpretations of brain gender would have it, there are all sorts of reasons why women are just better at being “social.” We could leave it at that, or… consider other angles.  And, because it has some pretty significant implications for today’s business world, I thought … Read on >

A few trends are aligning that have already and individually been making a difference in the world of marketing.   They have to do with consumer gender, corporate responsibility and values-based humans (as consumers and employees).  While addressing these will be challenging for marketers, I believe it will be worth … Read on >

Since about 2001, this marketing to women path I’ve been on has been an interesting ride.  Where I expected to get more and more focused on the ‘business” end, I have instead gone broader and broader with the “whys” of gendered consumer behavior.  If I think about my background and … Read on >