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Title: We First
Subtitle: How Brands and Consumers use Social Media to Build a Better World
Author: Simon Mainwaring
Narrator: John Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-13-11
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Business, Marketing
Publisher's Summary:
A social media expert with global experience with many of the world's biggest brands - including Nike, Toyota and Motorola - Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases. These innovative private sector partnerships answer perhaps the most pressing issue facing business and thought leaders today: how to practice capitalism in a way that satisfies the need for both profit and a healthy, sustainable planet. Mainwaring provides case studies from companies such as P&G, Walmart, Starbucks, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Toyota, Nike, Whole Foods, Patagonia, and Nestlé as well as a bold plan for how corporations need to rethink their strategies.
Critic Reviews:
"Social media-viral, borderless-is the perfect vehicle to promote "contributory consumerism," and Mainwaring has fascinating suggestions for technological innovation and systemic change...the author's enthusiasm and evidence make an excellent (and counterintuitive) case for big business's ability to make major strides in creating a more equitable world." (
Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Purpose-Driven Leadership
Simon Mainwaring is going to be a speaker at our regional conference soon. I decided to read one of his books to get a fuller sense than one gets from a YouTube video. This is a very thoughtful treatise on how consumers are changing their interactions with corporations and how corporations are adopting purpose-driven outcomes that better society, instead of just going for bottom line profits. The job isn't done. I am impressed, however, of how Mainwaring links the historical basis of consumerism with the social media movement. Definitely worth a read.
Great book!
This was a great book for marketers, consumers, and people interested in sustainability. I read this book for a marketing class and I will definitely reread the book because it is packed with valuable information.
Short-sighted
The author glazes over challenges of social organizing by focusing simply on rebutting critiques of weak ties made by Gladwell and ignoring contentions uncovered by the latest academic studies of social media.
The author's solutions rely on a great leap from the current state of social networks -- where a select few influencers in media and celebrity lead discussions and users only communicate in like-minded bubbles--to the idealistic flattened democratic community of open-minded socially conscious global citizens.
Finally, the ultimate solution is a geopolitical nightmare of organized concentrated power which I hope never comes to fruition.
Don't Waste Your Time
This book is a frustrating mess. He contradicts himself so often, I cannot believe an editor would let it be published. I was disappointed because I strongly believe that there are methods for businesses, governments, and consumers to work in harmony to innovate and create an improved world. He has a few good concepts that are crowded out by his anti-business agenda. Simon paints a picture that capitalism is the root of all evil. I think the more constructive approach is to put forward methods where we can work together to solve societal issues.