Corporate Social Responsibility and the Corporate Meeting

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This is a guest post from Maureen Santoro from Atlas Meetings + Incentives.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an emerging segment of corporate meetings that is likely here to stay. There is a good deal of debate among corporate managers over whether companies should engage in CSR.  Although altruistic as well as a good PR move, there is a cost associated with performing a CSR volunteer activity both in terms of money and risk management. Besides being one more line item in the meeting budget, there are risks of possible injuries that might be sustained during some of the volunteer activities.  However, the sense of pride and accomplishment experienced by the volunteers, as well as the good press generated, means that CSR is quite worth exploring for your next meeting.

Planning a Green Meeting

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This is a guest post from Maureen Santoro from Atlas Meetings + Incentives.

Across the country, companies large and small are putting “best practices” policies into place. One such resolution concerns measures that a company can take to mitigate the environmental footprint that their actions have on the planet as a whole and on their small corner of the world in particular. Also known as “green policies”, the targeted outcome is to prevent, reduce, or mitigate harmful effects on natural resources.  But what does “green” actually mean?  As the event manager charged with following said policy, how do you make sure that you are doing everything possible to be “clean and green”?

In the simplest terms, being “green” means creating an event that has as minimal impact on the environment as possible.  While that may seem a formidable task, there are steps you can take to plan accordingly:

The New Face of Corporate Meetings

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This is a guest post from Maureen Santoro from Atlas Meetings + Incentives.

There was a time when corporate meetings were the definition of elaborate. Opulent hotels were booked, big-name entertainment flown in, and extravagance seemed the norm. For better or worse, those days are long gone. With the economic crisis, companies are looking for new things to do when they plan a corporate-wide meeting. And it’s often the already overburdened administrative professional that gets tasked with making the arrangements.

Administrative Committees Can Help When You Need It Most

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An interesting thing happened to me today.  One of the managers that is going to be moving into our offices from another location asked me if I could do her a small favour.  Of course, I wanted to help out.  She asked me if I could hunt down an iPad charger for her, as she left hers in her office and needed to give it a little boost for a meeting that she was having later today.

Is Your Internet Browser Slowing Down Your Research?

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You're working on some research your manager asked you to do. Things are going well, but you notice that your Internet browser is running really slowly, especially, when trying to load pages with quite a bit of content.

Has this ever happened to you? It has many times for me. Personally, I think that using Internet Explorer is not the way to go. I've tried using Google Chrome, but it lacks stability. I have to admit that it's super-fast, but it keeps crashing, even after researching details on how to get fixes.