Talking with the man from Coca-Cola

A face-to-face meeting has now taken place between Simon Berry and senior representatives of Coca-Cola at the firm’s European HQ in Brussels regarding the aid distribution idea.
Simon has written up a full account of his meeting here.
Yet more positive outcomes and the momentum Simon has built up via Facebook, his own blog and other bloggers [...]

Coca-Cola aid campaign - its good to talk

Yet more encouraging news from Simon Berry, who is spearheading the campaign to get Coca-Cola to use their distribution muscle to provide basic aid to communities in developing countries.
Simon has held a conference with senior representative of Coca-Cola and received some positive feedback.
The next step is a planned face-to-face meeting between Simon and the company’s [...]

Social networking - friend or foe?

Nine out of ten people want specific guidelines for the media on the use of personal information published online.
According to the study carried out by the Press Complaints Commission, 89% of those questioned believe clear regulations were necessary and would help them more easily seek redress if material is wrong or intrusive.
Concerns about the amount of [...]

Coca-Cola aid campaign - sing the song

Yet further news from Simon Berry regarding the campaign he launched to persuade Coca-Cola to start delivering aid along their bottles of fizzy pop.
Eve Graham, who sang the original I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing which was subsequently used in Coke’s worldwide TV ads, has rewritten the lyrics to fit in with the [...]

The man from Coca-Cola says: “Let’s chat”

Excellent news from Simon Berry, the man who has set up the Facebook group calling on Coca-Cola to use their distributions channels to get basic medical aid to developing countries.
The company’s Global Director for Stakeholder Relations has suggested a “chat” with Simon regarding the idea.
No promises, no bold pledges. But that was never likely.
A foot in [...]

Could Coca-Cola aid idea be the real thing?

This simple but clever idea comes via Nick Booth’s podnosh blog, but the credit goes to his friend Simon Berry with a nod to Annie Lennox’s recent appearance on Desert Island Discs.
The full story is explained in Nick’s post, but the basic idea is to encourage Coca-Cola to create a “life-saving compartment” in each of the [...]

Employers banning Facebook…again

You would think IT managers would know better.
Well, at least I would think that.
But, according to IT Week, a new survey of IT managers shows a majority in favour of banning Facebook and other social networking sites in the workplace.
I can well imagine situations where personal use of computer systems is a bit iffy - [...]

Do you and me need another social networking site?

Another social networking site goes live on April 14 with ambitions to become the largest in the UK.
Youmeo.com is being developed out of the Coventry-based PPLparty site set up by 19 year-old Calum Brannan and aims to prove to companies and large organisations that social networking can be their friend too.
The new site is looking to challenge [...]

Freedom of speech denied in the not so civil service

Large public and private sector organisations have continually got their knickers in a twist in recent years over the rise of the blogging and social networking.
Whether it is banning personal internet use during working hours, or sacking employees who set up critical (and not so critical) blogs or websites, they have been running scared of such [...]

MP calls for Facebook lessons

Schools should set aside time each week to give pupils lessons on the responsible use of Facebook, other social networking sites and the internet in general.
That is the view of Madeleine Moon, the MP for Bridgend who was so quick to indulge in some bandwagon jumping when news first started to break about a number of [...]