Here are a few of this week’s “must reads” from our feeds:

Infographic on the Rise of Text Messaging
Texts are the communication medium of choice for teens everywhere (beating face-to-face conversation and e-mail in popularity) and surpasses all other uses of mobile phones in the US. Read More »

The Twittersphere exploded with hundreds of CSR professionals condemning and rebutting the expose written in the Wall Street Journal on August 23rd entitled: “The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility.”  The article penned by Aneel Karnani, associate professor of strategy at the University of Michigan, focused on the fact that executives owe a single duty in their particular job/company and that is to maximize returns for shareholders.

Here are a few highlights of those responses: Read More »

Fenton has been enlisted to help the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Foundation find a top-flight communicator to lead its communications and marketing activities as they move toward groundbreaking in October for a National Law Enforcement Officers Museum near the National Mall in downtown Washington, D.C. Read More »

What is CSR Communications?  Is it cause-marketing?  Is it the promotion of corporate philanthropy? Is it distributing a press release when your employees engage in a major volunteer program? Or is it the creation an annual sustainability report that showcases your firm’s environmental footprint, fair labor practices, and energy consumption, among other items.  Actually, it is all four and much, much more. Read More »