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Dotherightthing.com – Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility
Another link to Andy Beal’s blog, this time a post about a service that is to corporate social responsibility what Digg.com is to funny/quirky,techie stories.
dotherightthing.com
Dotherightthing.com lets people post commentary and links to content about the actions of companies. Others can then vote on the content and decide whether the issues discussed have a negative or positive impact.
It’s very interesting for reputation management, but what has me thinking is the potential for something Irish. But with one big difference. I think the Irish version should be based not on corporate social responsibility but on the actions of politicians and political parties.
Set it up, publish commentary about Irish politics (think about some of the recent furores) and let people decide on the impact. I think a collation of political commentary and facts (unbiased) that people could vote on would be a fantastic resource.
I’m not into politics, but one thing that annoys me is how much we complain and how little we change. We seem to have a national talent for crying foul one minute and singing the praises of those that arse things up the next.
I suppose politics is a strange beast. It seems there is never a tipping point in Irish politics. Now I wonder if some of the political bloggers might agree with me and set this up…
If you build it, I’ll give my full support to it and I’m sure many more would as well. I’m just wondering would something like this turn into the usual political squabbles between the various fanboys. I find that most people who have are political tied to any one party will never say their party fucked up. But yes, big thumbs up.
Comment by Damien Mulley — January 30, 2007 @ 10:14 am
[...] Richard has an idea to measure the impact of political decisions. It is modeled on the new site Dotherightthing.com, which as Richard describes: lets people post commentary and links to content about the actions of companies. Others can then vote on the content and decide whether the issues discussed have a negative or positive impact. [...]
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Damien
I wish I had the time to do something like this at the minute. It might be something that could be hacked from pligg – I’m not sure. I have to add it to my long list of ideas…
But I think as an idea it might be how political activism and social networks could/should converge. Could be the ultimate focus group if enough people made use of it.
Rgds
Richard
Comment by Richard Hearne — January 30, 2007 @ 10:55 am