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Did B1G1 team loose the energy and momentum? - Absolutely NOT!

We were touring in Australia and New Zealand covering 7 cities in total. And our main blogger and social media writer Paul Dunn was the centre of all these events this time.

Paul's fun, engaging, inspiring and insightful talk, "WOW - Standing out in 2010" created great energy and interest toward B1G1 in every city we visited. Some of the events attracted so many more people than we expected that we did not even have enough seats (RYDGES in Auckland for example ran out of all spare chairs and we had to 'steal' more from the restaurants!).  Many people were standing at the back of the room enjoying every moment of the evening until the very end. 

If you are one of them who missed the opportunity to be there, make sure to watch out for the next round because we had so many people saying that the event was full of amazing values that they could not believe it was free (thanks to the generous sponsors for each of the event) and some people even came from other cities driving hours to get there. 

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In a radio interview a few weeks ago, the host told me how he’d actually cross to the other side of the road if he saw a charity group ahead of him ‘rattling a tin under everyone’s nose’.

And a senior executive in a major corporation told me how the way the giving worked in their company was essentially like this: ‘we figure out what the profit is and then we decide how much of that we can give away – taking into account tax breaks of course’.

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Customer Social Responsibility supersedes Corporate Social Responsibility

Just before Christmas Paul Dunn, one of the co-founders of Buy1GIVE1™, was interviewed by Alicia Wong from the Singapore TODAY newspaper after he spoke at the Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR) in November 2008. Paul Dunn was not only rated one of the best speakers by participants he also introduced a new catch phrase to the world of CSR.

You can see the flurry of blogs entries from Google that sprung up from the one article in TODAY within a few days of posting. If you Google on

What is CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility?

CSR was a buzzword created in the early 1970's although it was seldom abbreviated back then.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR, also called corporate citizenship , corporate responsibility, responsible business and sometimes corporate social opportunity) is a concept whereby a business organisation considers the wider social and environmental effects that it has as a trading entity outside of its direct trading environment. For example, a mining company destroys the natural landscape when mining so part of its social responsibility

Sometimes, we may feel that our individual and everyday activities don’t make much of a difference.

But what if they did? What if people around the world set up their businesses so that every single transaction made a positive difference? What a world that would be; and that is actually the world of Buy One Give One. And it’s now becoming a global movement.

This transaction-based giving movement is now inspiring and transforming our world. It is a new and immediately effective form of philanthropy, serving the worlds poor with practical gifts from every sale.

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Paul Dunn from Buy1GIVE1 got rated as the number 1 presenter at the recent CSR forum in Singapore. Business people around the world came to this recent conference to explore the latest CSR topics.

He was also interviewed by a reporter (Alicia Wong) from 'Today' newspaper after his presentation.

Read the article here .

Buy1GIVE1 transaction-based giving is now being recognised as one effective way to create more synergy and energy in organisations.