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Daniel Benoni

Pro Bono Standards & Valuation - Pro Bono 101 - Resources - Lead Pro Bono - Taproot Fou... - 0 views

  • Pro Bono Standards & Valuation In partnership with the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), Taproot Foundation has developed standards for pro bono service to professionalize the field and ensure the consistent quality of services delivered to recipient organizations
  • Examples of Pro Bono Service HR team audits the HR systems of a nonprofit Finance team develops managerial accounting systems for a nonprofit Property development team helps a nonprofit secure and design office space Creative team develops a nonprofit's annual report Working as part of her company's pro bono commitment to a nonprofit, a professional tax accountant provides tax consulting to needy individuals in the community
  • Examples of Other Skills-Based Service (Not Pro Bono) Executive serves on a nonprofit board and gives informal advice Manager coaches high school student on a business plan competition An accountant independently provides free tax services to an individual in the community who can't afford tax advice Engineer designs a technology curriculum for an after school program Working as part of her company's pro bono commitment to a nonprofit, a software designer sets up staff computers (setting up computers is not within the core description of a software designer's professional expertise)
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  • Current Dollar Fair Market Valuation Pro bono work should be valued at Fair Market Value (FMV) and recorded as non-cash giving in CECP Survey Question 9.  FMV is the hourly or project cost that a paying client would incur for the same service. Companies are encouraged to use the three scenarios below to assist in determining the FMV of services rendered.  The dollar values in the scenarios below are based upon current U.S. salary data adjusted to account for geographic differences and typical fee-discounting practices.  CECP is currently unable to provide dollar-value assistance for non-U.S. pro bono service. Paid-release-time service that does not meet the pro bono criteria should be recorded at a dollar value that is appropriate to the skills involved in CECP Survey Question 22 (do not include pro bono hours in Question 22, as that would be double counting hours recorded in Question 9). When in doubt, the current Independent Sector rate is appropriate.
  • For companies with minimal pro bono tracking capabilities In the absence of employee skill area data and internal billing rates, CECP recommends using an estimate of $120 per hour for pro bono service projects. This is based on a rounded average billing rate for mid-level employees across disciplines, highlighted below. For companies with moderate pro bono tracking capabilities Companies that track the seniority level or skills deployed in pro bono projects should use the following chart to value pro bono hours if internal rates are not available.
  • For companies with robust pro bono tracking capabilities Companies should use their best internal billing information to determine the FMV of services rendered. These valuations should be adjusted to reflect billing differences by: geography, seniority level, rate discounting, employee skill area, etc. To do this, companies must track project metrics that affect billing rates so that an accurate, defensible valuation for pro bono contributions can be recorded. CECP strongly encourages companies to track pro bono to this level of specificity whenever possible.
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    GREAT INFORMATION. To read! - Use cases leads - "What to track in pro-bono" - References, etc. 
Aude-Olivia Dufour

Interactions Corporation Raises $12M More to Ease the Pains of Automated Customer Servi... - 0 views

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    Hum, yeah customer service needs to be improved. 
Daniel Benoni

How to effectively launch your new product or service | PressDoc Blog - 0 views

  • 1. Define the message you want to communicate and to whom If you’re launching your company, introducing a new service or making another important announcement, first ask yourself why people should care about it.
  • 2. Write your press release(s) Now you know who your audience is and what message to bring across, it’s time to craft the actual press release. Remember, the goal of the press release is to convince journalists, bloggers and other influencers that your story is worth spreading to their following. Writing a good press release warrants an entire different article, but the most important thing to remember is to tell a story.
  • 3. Create a list of PR contacts It’s time to create an overview of all the bloggers, journalists and influencers you want to reach. Let’s call them your PR contacts.
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  • 4. Optional: Determine which outlet gets the scoop In today’s media landscape, a story covered 15 minutes ago by another blog can already be considered old news. Therefore depending on the type of news and the market you’re in it might be wise to give one specific media channel the scoop.
  • 8. Distribute your press release In a previous step you set up draft emails for all your PR contacts, now is the time to send them.
  • 6. Write draft emails In the previous step you have probably only sent out the news to a handful of contacts on your contact list.
  • 7. Make the announcement When the day finally comes, you can publish your press release (or have it published automatically if you’re using the schedule option).
  • 5. Send personalized emails to journalists, under embargo If you decided not to give the scoop to a certain blog you can still let journalists know about your announcement before you actually make it public.
  • 9. Thank the people that covered your story Congratulations! Now that your press release is out in the open you should see some coverage happening. Be sure to enjoy all the free publicity your company receives and thank the people that cover your story via a personal email so you can start building a relationship with them for your future press releases.
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    couverture de presse, press release
Rachel Chaikof

IDEO.org | When the Bran... - 0 views

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    They use branding based on services
Daniel Benoni

Dan Shapiro » Vesting is a hack - 1 views

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    Startups are a lot of work!  He quits AcmeCorp and takes a cushy executive gig at a fortune-500 tech firm.  Jill's left solo. Years pass.  Jill first works without salary, then pays herself a pittance.  She bootstraps the company, starting with consulting and moving on the develop a highly successful web service.  As she brings on staff, she issues stock to new employees, ultimately handing out a half-million shares of the company.  Eventually she's the CEO of a 50-person firm, pulling down a respectable $200k per year as the CEO; nearly as much as Jack's pulling down at his gig (not including his benefits and bonuses).
Daniel Benoni

Des points «Air Miles» pour la qualité de vie | André Dubuc | Finances person... - 1 views

  • Bien tannés de consacrer vos précieux week-ends à la taille de la haie, au lavage des vitres ou à la corvée d'aspirateur? Une entreprise privée de Québec donne l'équivalent de points Air Miles à ses employés pour que ceux-ci les échangent contre toutes sortes de services qui embellissent le quotidien, comme des services d'entretien ou des week-ends de détente.
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    We should offer something like that to potential employees.
Aude-Olivia Dufour

Zoetica Media » Services - 0 views

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    possible partner to do the marketing research behind connecting our clients with the right charities, they use social media 
Aude-Olivia Dufour

Pricing - Signup for your free trial of Zendesk - Help Desk Software - 0 views

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    interesting for customer service
Daniel Benoni

Tufts fraternities partner to maximize community impact and philanthropy - Jonathan M. ... - 0 views

  • Last month, Tufts Inter Fraternity Council, made up of representatives from all the fraternities on campus, launched a partnership with Tisch College to strengthen their capacity to have a positive and constructive impact on campus, in the local area, and in the global community.
  • As I worked on that and heard about the fundraising and volunteering that other fraternities were doing I started thinking about the impact we could have through collaboration
  • philanthropy summit for organizations to share fundraising resources and tips, and found that other fraternities were looking for ways to collaborate as well
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  • each of the ten fraternity chapters on campus agreed to sign on and to collaborate on a philanthropic endeavor this semester and in the future
  • all fraternities will collaborate philanthropically around an agreed upon theme, sharing resources and co-sponsoring fundraising events together
  • Because fraternities at Tufts are already so busy with their individual chapter philanthropic activities, it was initially challenging to get all the chapters to sign on
  • However, once everyone came to the understanding that this was not intended to be a burden but rather a supplement to their ongoing activities, things began to develop well.
  • ollaboration really has great potential for better utilizing our manpower to maximize the effect we can have
  • hopes the partnership will help change some of the stereotypes about fraternities.  “While the point of this project is to increase the philanthropic activity of chapters, it is also very much to improve recognition of the philanthropic work chapters have been doing for a while now,
  • reek chapters participate in or host multiple philanthropy events a semester and the campus doesn't always hear about them, so by bringing all of the chapters together it is hoped that awareness of fraternity charitable activity will increase.
  • that people often have misconceptions about fraternities and don’t hear about the good work fraternities do - even though that is the bulk of what they are about. “I actually came to Tufts partly because I thought it didn’t have a strong Greek presence, which was something I really wasn’t interested in,” he explained.  “But when I got here I found positive role models in upperclassmen fraternity members and I was particularly impressed with the goals of Delta Tau Delta.
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    Partership between different fraternities and how they want to improve their brand image.
Daniel Benoni

Why Top Brands Are Investing So Much Time In a Social Media Leaderboard - 0 views

  • Why Top Brands Are Investing So Much Time In a Social Media Leaderboard
  • Massive brands like Intel, Audi, Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, Toyota and AT&T have also invested in EA and are quickly rising up EA’s business leaderboard. The real-life success of a company seems to directly correspond with EA’s scoring algorithm. The Fortune 500 ranks public companies by the most after-tax revenue for the year, but how does EA determine its scoring? “We really look at the following: Activity (how much and what you do), audience (who’s listening) and engagement/interaction (how are people engaging you),” Dups said. “So if you can break down any network in that way, you can figure out what we listen to.”
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  • So if brands aren’t necessarily going by their EA network score to judge their return on investment, how do they know if their time is well spent? Robert Scoble thinks it’s too early to say whether brands will see a major return on their EA investment. “It’s something fun to play around with, but that’s all I’d be doing right now if I were a company,” Scoble said. “That said, you could get a lot of PR by playing around with services in early stages of the game. Everyone remembers [the companies that were early to] blogging and Twitter. No one cares about the 3,000th one there.”
  • Intel is seeing results from being an early adopter. “As one of the first Fortune 50 brands on EA, we got first-mover credit,” explained Rhoads. “People noticed we were participating and were able to interact directly through the game with a very active, pre-existing community. It’s very satisfying to invest in that community and I think gratifying and perhaps surprising when a brand re-invests back in you. As far as results are concerned, it’s hard to tell.”
  • While larger companies are always among first adopters for new social networking sites because they have more resources and staff, the true test will be if smaller companies will flock to EA as they have to Facebook and Twitter. Most companies will likely need harder evidence of return on investment in order to justify getting into the game
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    Potential partner, they could use our score in their algorithm, we could ask them some question about their algorithm, we offer them a social value in their score and they drive us really interesting traffic and brands! To check soon!
Daniel Benoni

Responsabilité sociale: un facteur d'attraction pour la génération Y | Iris G... - 0 views

  • Responsabilité sociale: un facteur d'attraction pour la génération Y
  • La génération Y représente déjà le quart de la main-d'oeuvre au Québec. Un chiffre qui ira en augmentant. Les entreprises doivent donc en tenir compte dans la course au recrutement et pour retenir les meilleurs talents. Du coup, celles qui se soucieront de responsabilité sociale et environnementale pourraient mieux réussir que d'autres.
  • Marc-Étienne Julien, président de la division Recrutement de Randstad Canada, une entreprise spécialisée dans les services en ressources humaines, nul doute que les sociétés qui s'arrimeront aux valeurs de la nouvelle génération sauront mieux se démarquer.
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  • La jeune génération a été élevée avec ces valeurs et l'implication sociale est une notion qui gagne en importance pour eux, dit-il. Ils reconnaissent la valeur que ça ajoute à une entreprise
  • S'il est bien de redonner à sa communauté ou de se préoccuper de questions environnementales, les entreprises doivent faire attention de rester en accord avec leurs valeurs.
  • Il faut rester cohérent avec l'image de l'entreprise, sinon c'est du mauvais marketing. C'est bien beau, mettre de l'avant de belles valeurs sociales, mais comment cela se traduit-il au quotidien dans l'entreprise? Les jeunes voient clair là-dedans et ne sont pas dupes devant ceux qui essaient d'en profiter!
  • Si, en tant qu'employeur, vous cherchez une façon de vous engager socialement, M. Simard suggère de d'abord faire l'inventaire de ce que vos employés font déjà par eux-mêmes bénévolement et de s'associer à une démarche qui semble leur tenir à coeur.
  • Par exemple, au Québec, Randstad est partenaire du Club des petits déjeuners et les employés peuvent servir bénévolement le déjeuner aux enfants avant le travail.
  • Nul doute, toutes ces initiatives nous aident sur le plan de l'attraction des candidats. Les gens sont fiers de travailler pour nous, ils sont motivés et reconnaissent la valeur que ça ajoute à leur travail de pouvoir être engagés dans leur communauté»
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    How CSR is shaping recruitment for organizations
Daniel Benoni

Quebec 'certifies' firms for work-life balance - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

  • new business certification as an innovative way to put the province at the forefront of the work-life balance movement
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  • e message that Quebec promotes the right balance between work and family
  • So far there has been lots of interest from companies and public organizations
  • McMaster University business professor Nick Bontis said he’s not aware of any other government certification programs similar to Quebec’s
  • “We’ve been doing it on our own for two years
  • “We view it as an investment.
  • erformance rewards system that allows staff to trade points for such services as child care and house cleaning.
  • This is still a hard sell to corporations.
  • This is a program for companies of all sizes and in all sectors,
  • think this is amazing. It sends a signal to the rest of the world that Canada is pushing the envelope
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