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Yesterday Anne and I came back from our holiday. 12 days without the noise and traffic of the London area. What a pleasant experience.

We had a great time and did not really want to leave. We went to the lovely little island of Fanoe on the west cost of Denmark. Wikipedia on Fanoe

It was pure relaxation in a nice summer house with direct views of the beach. Much better then the Caribbean in my opinion and less travel hassle of course.

I even had a very fast internet connection which I only used 30 minutes every day (otherwise you could not consider it a holiday in my opinion).

Anyway back to business. No time to waste.
There have been some interesting developments on CorporateResponsibility.Net in that I am now looking for people that are interested in writing blog posts, articles or news items on the topic of Corporate Responsibility. So if you are interested or you anyone that is please get in touch. More information can be found here:  Write for us

All the best,
Fabian

I have had interesting two days and got a lot of work done.

Here is a quick wrap up.

Yesterday I have started using Twitter just out of curiosity and to my surprise found it really fun and a great way to connect with people in my network and to share news and ideas. So I decided to stick to Twitter and start building my network there, engage with global environmental/Sustainability twitter community and add my bit to the discussion. I found that there are a lot of people I know from somewhere on the internet already which makes it easier to start. I have also integrated my twitter dialog box on the top right hand corner of the blog for everyone to see what I doing at the moment. This is called twittering! I know weird expression.
This is my direct Twitter URL if you would like to join my Twitter network as a ‘follower’ i.e. read and get updates on what I am doing.

On my business side is it quite likely that I am getting my first job shortly. This might involve some consulting work on Corporate Responsibility. Lets hope it works out I will keep everyone informed.
I have also rewritten a lot of the PB Consulting website so why not take a look. My business concept has finally reached a stage where everything seems to fall in place and makes it easy to communicate what PB Consulting is all about.

Today has been really been a good day until I found out that Feedburner is having problems delivering blog updates to email subscribers over the last two days. I was starting wonder why my subscriber levels dropped by 50% yesterday on Sustainability.org and over 70% on CorporateResponsibility.net.
It seems that I am not the only one though and Feedburner is aware of it trying to fix it. Hopefully everyone will be able to receive blog updates starting from tomorrow again. Apologies for the inconvenience everyone.

At last the weekend is near and I am really looking forward to spend the time with my lovely wife Anne after she has been travelling non stop for the last two weeks.

All the best,
Fabian

I have written a post on SustainabilityBlog.org about the current discussion on whether to call Corporate Responsibility now Business Sustainability instead.

A ridicules discussion in my opinion and that is the message really of that post. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Corporate Responsibility or Business Sustainability?

Oh yes and I bought the domain GreenTalk.org yesterday. Sounds like a great discussion forum name in my opinion.

Take care.

Fabian

The week has nearly come to an end and I am again on my way to Germany. This time to visit my grandparents in law. This will go until Monday. I will then travel to Düsseldorf where I will spend the rest of the week.

So far the week was very successful. These are the highlights in my view:

• I started the CorporateResponsiblity.Net news portal.
• I got another forum sponsor for SustainabilityForum.com on bord
• And found at lot of interesting news websites on the topic of Corporate Responsibility

This is the list of the useful Corporate Responsibility News websites I found up to this point.

1. CSRNewsEurope.com
2. CsrWire.com
3. Edie News
4. Environmental News Network
5. Mallenbaker.net

But my new CorporateResponsibility.Net is the ultimate corporate responsibility news resource of course!

Have a good weekend everyone.

Fabian

I have just compiled a top 5 of the most interesting jobs posted on SustainabilityForum.com,the online forum I run if you are interested in finding a job in the Sustainability/Environment field.

Top five jobs:

1. UK: Sustainability Reporting Manager
2. UK: Senior Sustainability Consultant
3. UK: 2 jobs at Ethical Consumer Magazine
4. US: Environmental Protection Specialist, ENERGY STAR
5. UK (London) Internship at Social Business VC and Research Company

Please visit http://www.sustainabilityforum.com/forum/job-offers-internships/ for the complete list of current job and internships offers.

Alle the best,

Fabian

I am finally where I set out to be three months ago.

Three months ago I set myself the goal to build a news website, a website on stakeholder engagement topics and my own personal/business blog to complement the websites I already have. Yesterday I finally went online with my corporate responsibility website called CorporateResponsiblity.Net.

The purpose of this website is to be a place for news all around Corporate Responsibility. I know that there some websites out there but I always struggle to see what value a lot of these news stories have. For me personally 70% of all the Corporate Responsibility news that come out on a daily basis is corporate spin, a pure publicity tool and do not really have a lot informational value in my opinion. The news and press releases that are on CorporateResponsibility.Net are only news items I came across personally and considered news worthy.

Back to the topic.

I now run two online forums, three blogs, one information/news website and my own company website, so seven altogether. I think this is more then enough for me now!

So my aim for the next 6 months is to establish each of these sites to be regarded as:

1. Providing first class information on the particular topics all related to sustainability,
2. Easy to read and founded within best practice and
3. most important to help promote sustainability via the internet.

Obviously this is a lot of work but to be perfectly honest. I have always dreamed of doing something like this and I feel very lucky to finally be able to start realizing my dream.

All the best,

Fabian