Social Responsibility

Tanya Goodin

Tamar is Agency of the Year – a 1st for a UK Search agency

27 November 2009 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEO | Analytics, Experience Design, Search, Social Media, Social Responsibility, Tamar, Tanya Goodin, Technology
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I am over the moon that last night we were named Agency of the Year by the Financial Services Forum at the spectacular Guildhall in London. It was a nail-biting effort by Team Tamar to get there involving a flat tyre, a motorbike rescue dash and a pair of black-tie suit trousers being rescued from [...]

Nicky Rogers

How to fundraise for charity

25 August 2009 | Posted by Nicky Rogers | Head of Talent | Social Responsibility, Tamar

Ok, so sorry, I don’t actually have the definitive answer to this difficult question, however I wanted to share our experiences of successful fundraising and also some brilliant ideas I’ve seen work for others.
We raise money every year for a number of community projects that we get involved with; the money goes towards materials, equipment and [...]

Nicky Rogers

Back to school!

28 July 2009 | Posted by Nicky Rogers | Head of Talent | Social Responsibility, Tamar

This weekend Tamar’s own Barrie Bowles visited Oak Lodge School in Balham, the location of our 2009 UK Charity project. It was the first time that anyone has visited since we completed the project in June, so we have to admit we were slightly apprehensive of how everything was looking – had the grass seed grown; [...]

Simo Sam

My second year at St Cyprian’s

14 July 2009 | Posted by Simo Sam | Social Responsibility
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It’s my second year at St Cyprian’s school, and I’m still loving every minute of it. St Cyprian’s is not just a school for
girls but its also home to every single girl that attends the school and that includes our lovely staff. Being a St Cyprian’s girl is a great honour and I am very [...]

Aaron Williams

Privacy and the economics of self regulation

30 June 2009 | Posted by Aaron Williams | Director of Technology | Social Media, Social Responsibility
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What do social networking companies care more about? Money or users privacy? Personally I believe they are all there to try and make money (and why not), however this primary objective means that when it comes to a choice between protecting consumers privacy or making a profit, consumers will most likely lose out. [...]

Nicky Rogers

CSR – the final verdict!

30 June 2009 | Posted by Nicky Rogers | Head of Talent | Social Responsibility
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So we’re at the end of another year’s CSR week and I wanted to report back on the final results, what we’ve gained from the experience, and where we go from here!
This year was our first year spent with Oak Lodge School, London and our third year with Vuyani Pre-Primary School, Cape Town. There were many new challenges this [...]

Aaron Williams

Employers phishing on Facebook

19 June 2009 | Posted by Aaron Williams | Director of Technology | Social Responsibility, Technology
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There have been countless stories in the press of employers monitoring staff behaviour on social networking sites, however this practice now seems to be hitting a new low.
t was recently reported on the Yahoo! Sports network that some teams in the NFL have started creating fictional profiles to trick would be future players into adding [...]

Chloe Temple

CSR Project 2009 – Day 4

12 June 2009 | Posted by Chloe Temple | Search Campaign Manager | Social Responsibility, Tanya Goodin

And so we come to Tamar’s final day of the 2009’s community project at Oak Lodge school. With the school’s art exhibition scheduled that very evening, the pressure was on to get our projects complete and clearing away the mess we had created, ready for the evening’s visitors.
The main tasks of the day were to [...]

Andre Wilkinson

Tamar TLC – Gugulethu Day 4

12 June 2009 | Posted by Andre Wilkinson | Social Responsibility, Tamar
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Our final day at the school was mainly occupied by tying up some loose ends and saying farewell to the students and teachers.
We furnished the ‘outside classroom’ with a bed of tires for climbing about on, that can also double up us seating in front of the blackboard we installed on the wall.
We also installed [...]

Alex Schlagman

CSR Project 2009 – Day 3

10 June 2009 | Posted by Alex Schlagman | Social Responsibility
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For once Tamar was most definitely lost for words.
 
Split into 3 groups, we were given practical, interactive lessons that ran sequentially through this morning on the basics of British sign language (BSL). 
 
Led by one teacher with the able and enthusiastic support of two oak lodge students, the rules were clear…
Don’t talk, stay attentive and follow [...]