Meeting professionals’ social media feeds may be filled with good vibes Tuesday, April 23, 2019, as a worldwide effort to inspire 2 million people about the benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) events programming is set for a cyber blastoff.
The #CSRshareDay social media campaign by London-based Positive Impact Events is designed to inspire meeting professionals to make events more sustainable and CSR-minded with a 24-hour push hosted by sustainability experts around the world.
The effort, directly following Earth Day, which occurs on April 22, aims to accomplish the following:
- Share the stories of people who are making a positive impact on sustainability.
- Get more people talking about specific areas of sustainability that may not be discussed on a regular basis.
- Connect people through the conversation of sustainability.
- Share best practices, creative ideas and other strategies to inspire others.
There are nearly 20 volunteer host organizations that are staging #CSRshareDay time slots on Twitter this year during the 24-hour period to cover wide-ranging topics and tips related to sustainability and events. The posts will engage people to participate, share and follow throughout the day.
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“One of the most inspiring things about this campaign has been the volunteer hosts fueling it and demonstrating the power of social media and global collaboration to make a change by creating a conversation about ‘we’ rather than sharing about ‘me,’” said Positive Impact Events CEO Fiona Pelham.
#CSRShareDay 2019 Twitter Hosts
The 2019 #CSRShareDay hosts and times (in Greenwich Mean Time) are:
- Cerespo 01:00
- Sustainable Events Alliance 02:00
- African Agenda Conference 05:00
- Messukeskus 08:00
- Events Greening 09:00
- Terrain Firma 10:00
- ABPCO 11:00
- Italian Special Occasions 12:00
- Dolphin Destinations 14:00
- Kuoni 15:00
- Events Industry Council: 16:00
- Oregon Convention Center: 17:00
- Monterey County CVB 18:00
- Tourism Vancouver 19:00
- InterContinental San Francisco 20:00
- San Francisco Giants 21:00
- Streamline 22:00
- MPI 23:00
#CSRShareDay: Sustainability on a Global Scale
Since the #CSRShareDay campaign began in 2015, the Twitter chat has passed through cities around the world, including San Francisco, Copenhagen, Tokyo, London and many more. The effort has given event professionals interested in CSR and sustainability an opportunity to interact and converse with people they might not have been able to and learn best practices.
#CSRShareDay: Twitter Chat Trail, Credit: Scott Easton
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In 2018, the #CSRShareDay campaign reached nearly 1.7 million people, with more than:
- 1,500 tweets.
- 5,532,082 timeline deliveries.
- 1.12 tweets per minute.
How Can I Participate in #CSRShareDay?
Positive Impact Events is calling meeting and hospitality professionals to follow and share the conversation April 23, 2019, or start their own conversation with the hashtag #CSRshareDay.
Additionally, Meetings Today will be taking over Positive Impact Events’ Instagram account on April 23 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to spread the word on CSR and sustainability through tips and recent stories. Follow along and comment on our posts, if you are able!
Here are some ideas and tools from Positive Impact Events to help participate.
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