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This week has been another memorable. With a beautiful and relaxing start in Copenhagen to a very busy and work oriented networking event towards the end.
After coming back from Copenhagen it was time to get going again and define the goals for this week.
I achieved all of them with rewriting some of this website, making major changes to the PB Consulting website, progressing work on the future of the SustainabilityForum and getting as many new contacts at the networking event on Thursday.
Yesterday I finalised the website changes and Thursday was an amazing networking again thanks to the simple concept face-to-face communication. Sometimes the simplest and oldest concepts of communication create the best outcome. The modern social media helps but I think will never replace this type of networking.

Today we are going to visit a friend in one of the most beautiful places in the UK. It is his birthday and he is doing a barbeque. He lives in Bourton-On-The-Hill in the middle of the Cotsworlds (Picture shows a typical house in the Cotswolds).
We will be staying overnight as the drive back to London would be at least 2 hours. I just hope that it does not rain. Keep your fingers crossed.

All the best,
Fabian

I am just now sitting on my desk in Krefeld/ Germany. I am not really here very often but my business is based here because a good friend of mine offered me this desk, IT access and the business address free of charge. He is a very kind person and I owe it to him that I was able to establish PB Consulting GmbH in the first instance. Without him I would gotten nowhere.
Anyway I got a little sidetracked there!
I am in Germany (as said) the days of this week and fly back to London tomorrow late in the evening.
Today has been a very hectic day here. First I send 4 hours with my accountant, then had a lunch appointment and then discussed future business opportunities with this friend mentioned in the first paragraph.
Everyone has left the office for the day and I just turned on some music (James Blunt – 1973) to finally sit down and write some blog posts and catch up on my emails. This is the first, one on the SustainabilityBlog.org will follow.

Useful links of the day:
TubeMogul.com - TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed. - TubeMogul.com
The Sustainability Dictionary: The Dictionary of Sustainable Management is an open dictionary for business leaders and students of sustainability and business-related terms. - SustainabilityDictionary.com

All the best,
Fabian
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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 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

Hello. My name is Fabian Pattberg and thank you for visiting my blog.

I currently live in the UK with my lovely wife Anne and run my own business called PB Consulting GmbH (you can find more on what I do in the “My Consulting Services” section).

This blog is intended to be a central place for my thoughts, experiences, challenges and everything else that comes with this biggest change and challenge of my life so far. I left a very fulfilling job in December 2007 working as a Corporate Responsibility manager for a multi national utilities company to open up my own business.

I decided to take that step because my previous “hobbies” of being a domain broker and running the online forum SustainabilityForum.com grew so much in terms of workload and success that it just was not possible to hold a full time job, manage the online forum and my domain business in a way that was satisfactory to me.

Since then I have expanded the online forum and developed several other websites on topics of stakeholder engagement, corporate responsibility and Sustainability. You can find the list of my websites on the right-hand sidebar titled” My Other Websites”.

I am always interested in connecting to other people so please feel free to visit my professional network profiles shown on the right-hand sidebar and feel free to add me as a professional contact.

If you are interested in my professional background or would like to know more about the services of PB Consulting please feel free to get in touch via the contact form below. If you want to know what I am up to on a daily basis then simply follow me on twitter (What is twitter?) by following this link to my profile: twitter.com/FabianPattberg.

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