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Do you ever have the feeling that you're being lied to about just don't know what? That there's something wrong with the way society defines your success, but you just can't put your finger on it? Do you question that there has to be more to life than getting a job, making some money, working until you're sixty, then retiring to the country

I would like to introduce myself through my art gallery at www.ramech.com. These designs represent the long journey of my personal life in memory of my past, my home where I grew up in Ethiopia and family who were scattered throughout the world and in memory of my dad, including my daily life. I have been painting since I could hold a pencil but the designs became my way of expression in the recent past.

With escalating costs, worsening customer service and poor morale, many companies with call centres are heading offshore to “solve” the problem, rather than challenging their own beliefs, values and ways of working to address the root causes.

However, DTI research shows that UK consumers have a negative attitude towards offshoring, with “a significant minority” that have either moved or plan to move suppliers away from those organisations which provide offshore customer service.

Companies need to find a better way of working to address these issues – but focusing on the financial costs is not the answer:  managers need to address the increasing human cost of how they work!

Once again Seb - Client Relations Director at Ethical Media challenges our ideas about what constitutes good communications - especially for authentic businesses and charities and NGOs.

Paul takes an analytical and historical look at the benefits of collaboration at all levels and in all situations and comes to some revelatory conclusions about it's impact on our global society.

Meeting design is not something, which seems to get a great deal of recognition but it is something Neil Crofts came to understand during his time at Razorfish. "We had so many meeting and had such a lot to achieve in them that designing the meetings using specific activities and break out sessions to achieve particular outcomes and build towards a final objective became crucial. Since then I have learned far more about meeting design and we now offer it as part of the Authentic Guides service.

Seb Ross - Client Relations Director at ethical communications design supremos - Ethical Media gets passionate and challenging about the role and responsibilities of communications agencies.

Communication is pivotal to life. Perhaps communication could even form part of a definition of life, because things that do not communicate do not live either.

In our "developed" society the methods, tools and techniques of communication have developed too. We now have an astonishing array of specialised communication, which support our way of life.

Sadly the biggest users of communication are also often the biggest abusers of communication. Governments and big business have sponsored the development of communications thinking through the employment of advertising, PR and other communications agencies. These agencies have developed techniques for helping their paymasters conceal or invert the unacceptable to persuade us the buying and voting public to accept and even support things that poison us and disempower us.