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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

We came back from Copenhagen on Monday evening and we had a great time.

The wedding was a typical Danish wedding with lots of speeches, hours of drinking (toasting), lots of singing, eating and finally some nice dancing.
Here are some of the photos.

So that is 1 wedding in August down 2 more to go.

On the business side of things this week will I intensify my lookout for a programmer that can help me with the redevelopment of the SustainabilityForum and my other websites. So if you know someone in the London area that has programming experience and is also “Sustainability Minded” then please get in touch.
I will be going to the London Coffee Meetup tomorrow but have no more external meetings otherwise. You can really tell that the holidays have started. This gives me more time to focus on some other work.

I also aquired a new nice domain name yesterday. EnergyHelp.net .That domain could make a good website for any kind of help or assistance on energy saving ,etc.

Al the best,
Fabian

This week has been an amazing week so far. Of course there is the weekend still to come.

These are the highlights of what happened this week:

• The Sustainability Writers Network (TSWN) is taking shape and I was able to recruit 10 more great writers. I will write more about this network next week.
• I have been to two great MeetUps here in London and connected to many great people.
• Connected to Kevin Long the COO of JustMeans. Great guy.
• Got another call with a request for a consulting pitch next week.
• The SustainabilityForum.com got over 60 new members in only a week with the best ever week in terms of traffic.
• My cooperation with AccountAbility21 kicked off.
• Bought a new domain with great potential: SustainableChina.com.
• Sold a domain after weeks of negotiation.
• My new design for this blog was finished and went live.

All in all has this been a very productive week and thank you to everyone that I met or that visited my websites.
Next week I am off to Germany for three days and back in the UK on Wednesday evening. I am going to the Entrepreneur Meetup on Thursday morning and have important meetings on Tuesday and Friday. Keep the fingers crossed for another successful week next week everyone.

I will provide an update when I am back from Germany.

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 not been writing for over a week now because I have been extremely busy to say the least. You can decide whether this is good or bad I guess.
This was my schedule in the last week and a half:
Fly back from Germany, stay one day, fly to Faro in Portugal, get a car to go to Sevilla in Spain, stay in Sevilla for 2 nights, get back to Faro and then fly back to London. And then back in London I am currently trying to drum up business for my consulting services, expand the CorporateResponsibility.Net website and network, network, network! 
Sounds like stress (which it is) but I LOVE IT!
I have some new development to talk about as well.
On the SustainabilityForum.com side have I now been able to use a new front page instead of a holding page. I used the Wordpress Content Management System and simply copied the style and colour from the forum to create a somewhat look-alike of the vbulletin software in order to have it blend in when people visit the front page and then the forum subsequently.
Take a look if you like: SustainabilityForum.com
I also now have the possibility to provide a space for partners of the SustainabilityForum.com. This has always been missing.
I also have exciting news around my CorporateResponsibility.Net website. I managed to kick-start an interview series with leader in the CSR field. This means that I will conduct interviews with a number of organisations and individuals around a specific CSR topic specific to that company. The interviews series will start in the next few weeks and hopefully be very useful to everyone interested in CSR.

This week seems to go quite good so far. I am off to have a lunch meeting with a company today and my wife and I have an interesting meeting tomorrow evening. We will see how these two meetings will go.

Until then all the best,
Fabian

Advance warning: It is already after midnight now so already apologies for my bad English, but I felt that I needed to write my next blog post before I am going to bed.

I have been in Berlin/Germany most of this week and helped out at the ILA exhibition where my parents had an exhibition stand to present the products they are selling in the aviation business. This meant that I was able to enjoy the great sunny weather we had here in the eastern parts of Germany where as in the western parts of Europe thunderstorms and rain pretty much ruined the week. This was a welcomed change to my regular business activities as well. But to be perfectly honest, I am also happy to get back to the things I love. And that is to build my consulting business and manage and develop my current websites.

This leads me nicely to the other developments of the week. After the exhibition today I went into Berlin City Centre to meet a pair of Wordpress Designer and Programmers to discuss the update of this blog and the SustainabilityBlog.org. These two are running the business called GoYippie. Kati and Christian (the two people running goYippie) are really nice and highly competent people as far as I can tell. We talked extensively about my thoughts of redevelopment, agreed a fee for the redevelopment of this blog and I am really happy to have found two people that share my passion for this kind of topic such as sustainability and the important role of the web to promote sustainability across the globe.
The time plan is to have the new blog ready in 6-8 weeks so stay tuned to see the new and totally unique new design of this blog.
Once we have finished this redevelopment we are looking to update the SustainabilityBlog.org by giving it a brand new look and add some nice new features.

All the best,
Fabian

The first meeting with members of the SustainabilityForum.com was very nice and productive Thursday.
The only thing was the venue. It was a little bit too noisy. So next time I will find a venue that is less crowded and where we have a better possibility to actually hear what the other person is saying and not have to shout in response.
I have also written several new blog posts.
The first is on stakeholder engagement and energy companies. That is a hot topic at the moment.
Here is the post:
Stakeholder Engagement and Energy companies

And the other one is on my top 5 environmental blogs on the web at the moment. These are my personal favourites and I usually visit these blogs regularly over the course of the week.
My top 5 environmental blogs

So have a good weekend everyone. Here in the UK we have a long weekend. Yippie!

Until then,
Fabian

I have uploaded two new pictures today. Thy are showing my lovely wife and myself. I just realized yesterday that I did not really have any pictures of myself on my blog. Silly me! 

Here they are:

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I am also going to go into London today to do two things.

Look at a MacBook. Yes, I am tempted to switch from a normal laptop to a MacBook. Just take a look. Isn’t it beautiful? MacBook. I will go into the Apple Shop and be really sceptic and see whether I still can not resist buying one. I won’t buy one today but maybe in a few months time. Who knows.
I will be staying in London for the evening because we have our first ever members meeting of people that are living in the London area and are registered on the SustainabilityForum.com. We will see how many people will turn up.

That’s all for now but I will keep you posted.

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

Dear readers,

I guess some of you know that I also run an online forum called SustainabilityForum.com. Every week I publish the new jobs and internships that have been submitted to the job forum via some online news groups and my other blogs.

I will now do the same every week on this blog. I hope you will find the information useful. Here are the top five jobs that where submitted to the SustainabilityForum.com job forum over the course of this week:

1. UK: Manager - Responsible Sourcing at John Lewis
2. US: Director of Socially Responsible Investing
3. UK: Sustainability & Climate Change Executives
4. UK: Traidcraft Business Services Coordinator
5. Costa Rica: Manager, Auditing Services, Sustainable Agriculture - Rainforest Alliance

These are only the top five (I rated them) but there are many more jobs in the job forum itself.

This is the direct address: Job Forum

Have a good weekend everyone.

Regards,

Fabian