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Please welcome Michael Briggs as a founding member of the International Social Marketing Association. Michael has more than 20 years’ experience in creating and implementing social marketing solutions for government, corporate, and nonprofit clients. Michael provi...

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wayman as a new founding member of the International Social Marketing Association this week. Jennifer Wayman has worked in social marketing and health communications for more than 19 years and currently heads the Washington, DC ...

Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki, FinlandSalary: approx. 30.000€ per annum Aalto University School of Economics (Aalto ECON), Department of Communication, invites applications from highly-motivated and intellectually-ambitious aspiring strategy-as-...

  According to Slavery Footprint,  (www.slaveryfootprint.org) about 60 slaves work for me worldwide. Which is quite disturbing, the more I think about it. Based in Oakland, California, the Slavery Footprint team works to engage individuals, groups, and ...

In this uncertain economy, many individuals and organizations have become hyperfocused on survival.  Few of us are investing as much as we probably should in developing new social marketing processes and systems, or even updating old ones. So now is your time ...

  Here are my ideas for becoming an awesome social marketer this year.  After you read them, I'd love to know yours. 1. Learn everyday Admit you know less that others think you do, and encourage your inner curious child. Open minds catch better ideas. ,...

The University of South Florida Social Marketing Conference (13-16 June 2012) enters its 22nd year with a renewed commitment to social marketing’s robust capacity to influence complex or “wicked” social problems. Social marketing has potential applications in a wi...

Our friends at the National Social Marketing Centre in the UK proposed this profile of a social marketing trainer for occupational standards in the UK. Social Marketing Trainer Role Profile Review and interpret the results of social marketing activities and the...

This is from the wonderful folks at the National Social Marketing Centre in the UK.  They were tasked with developing occupational standards for social marketing. The entire standards are available in our resources section: Social Marketing Occupational Stand...

The Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS) invites you to attend our Capitol Hill Briefing: Health of the Nation: The Importance of Increasing Hispanics in the Health WorkforceDate: Tuesday, November 1, 2011Time: 11:00 am to 1:30 pmLocation: The Raybur...

Call for Papers: Association for Marketing and Health Care Research, February 29-March 3, 2012 in Park City, UT Deadline December 5, 2011   Michael Weber, Mercer University, Program Chair, and Karen Hood, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, co-chair invi...

Source: www.devex.com   Women in most countries around the world are still subject to gender bias despite progress made in removing legal and regulatory barriers that prevent women from fully participating in their country’s economy, the World Bank in a new rep...

U.S. Senate appropriators have passed a fiscal 2012 state and foreign operations spending bill that provides $44.64 billion in discretionary funding to the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development and other international programs.

 

The approved funding level is $6 billion lower than the $50.70 billion requested by U.S. President Barack Obama and approximately $1 billion less than the enacted budget for fiscal 2011.

 

source: Devex (http://www.devex.com)

The Senate allocation, however, is $5 billion higher than the state and foreign affairs budget approved earlier this year by House appropriators. Members of the U.S. development committee have expressed support for the Senate version of the 2012 budget and said they hope Congress would adopt it over the House version.

 

The Senate and House bills need to be reconciled before a final bill is voted on and sent to the president for signature.

Penn, Good & Associates, a social and health marketing firm, located in Washington, DC.  (www.PennGood.com)  is in the process of soliciting resumes to fill  a Market Researcher position.  Please review the information below and if you or someone you know is interested, please forward resumes to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  They are looking to fill this position ASAP!

Thought this would interest social marketers and environmentalists alike.

As we move toward acheiving the vision of iSMA as a vibrant organisation, the topic of nationality has become a point of discussion among the currently active builders.

The position of some is that the iSMA should limit its activities to the international arena. Specifically,  they feel that we should advocate and support the development of national or regional social marketing associations, whose leaders would then become representatives on the Board of Directors of the iSMA.

The position of others is that the iSMA should think globally, but act locally, encouraging the formation of microgroups within walking/driving/public transport distance of each other.  This group envisions an organic growth of the association as these microgroups ultimately link up and carry out collaborative activities.