Month: January 2019

WordPress.com Celebrates 14 Entrepreneurs, Writers, and Nonprofits for the 2019 ‘Anything Is Possible’ List

Stuart Mitchell

A coffee co-op owned by its farmers, a sewing community empowering people of all body shapes and sizes, and a 12-year-old journalist are among those named in WordPress.com‘s first-ever “Anything Is Possible” list for 2019, celebrating 14 extraordinary people and organizations who are using the web to make the world a better place. This year’s inaugural Anything Is Possible list features nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, and writers who will be featured in a series of profiles at WordPress.com throughout January. It’s a great list though I can’t help notice at least one…

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Beyoncé, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Reese Witherspoon, and Troye Sivan Among Those Named to DoSomething.org’s 2018 Celebs Gone Good List

Stuart Mitchell

DoSomething.org, the largest not-for-profit exclusively for young people and social change, announced its 10th annual Celebs Gone Good list, which celebrates stars who have used their influence to change the world in 2018. Here are a few of the highlights! Beyoncé used her enormous star power for social change and earned a spot on the Celebs Gone Good list. The Grammy winner continued her mission of good this year, bringing attention to cancer and disease research with her performance at the City of Hope Gala and helped raise funds for the WACO…

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Paws and clause: Avoiding an advertising cat-astrophe when featuring animals

Stuart Mitchell

The CAP have released a post which talks about “Paws and clause: Avoiding an advertising cat-astrophe when featuring animals”.  I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. As a nation of animal lovers, featuring animals in ads is a sure fire way to stir consumers’ emotions and encourage them to engage with a product or brand, but when marketers depict or imply any kind…

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BBC’s new voice-activated VR experience lets you follow in the footsteps of the suffragettes

Stuart Mitchell

An empowering new virtual reality experience from BBC VR Hub puts viewers in the shoes of the suffragettes. Released on 7 December for free on the Oculus Store, Make Noise uses a combination of VR and voice technology, and encourages viewers to follow Emmeline Pankhurst’s advice and “make more noise” – as they hum, sing and shout to change the virtual world around them. Inspired by the suffragettes, who a century ago spoke up for a woman’s right to vote, Make Noise transports viewers to a series of colourful and…

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Wilmar Leads Palm Oil Industry to be Deforestation-Free

Stuart Mitchell

Wilmar International Limited (Wilmar) issued a Joint Statement with Aidenvironment and supporting consumer goods companies. The Joint Statement details Wilmar’s new supplier monitoring and engagement programme that willaccelerate its efforts towards a deforestation-free palm oilindustry. The programme was developed to step up the effectiveness of its current No Deforestation,No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy while also intending to provide remediation for past deforestation by its third-party suppliers.Wilmar will be supporting efforts by Aidenvironment to develop a comprehensive oil palm supplier group mapping database under the latter’s Supplier Group Compliance Programme,…

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