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Voice Over IP & Why It’s Better For Your Businesses
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP for short, is when you use your Internet connection instead of a traditional phone line to make your calls. Now we know what you’re thinking, but why would it matter how my call is transmitted as long as it works properly? There are a few reasons to use VoIP instead of a traditional phone line. See why VoIP is the better call for your business.... -
Using Tech at Work to Be More Sustainable
Image courtesy of Pixabay As a certified B Corporation, it’s important to us as an organization to continue to find new and innovative ways to improve. Being a sustainable organization means continuing to lessen our environmental impact while still providing meaningful and useful services. How can you make a difference in your office?... -
Our Five Promises
Here at BetterWorld Telecom, we pride ourselves on being good to the environment, our communities, and to our customers. Unlike other companies, our priorities are the way they should be, leaving profits at the end of the list. Take a look at the five promises we make to every single one of our customers. If you decide to partner with us you can expect the same treatment!... -
How to Recycle Your Old Electronic Devices
At BetterWorld Telecom, we care about the people we serve and the world we live in. That’s why we focus on sustainability and have been tested and certified as a “For Benefit” company by B Corporation. Despite our efforts, there can never be enough involvement for helping our planet. That’s why we like to encourage you to give back to the environment as well. Learn how you can recycle your old electronic devices and keep our planet greener today and for future generations!... -
Why Non-Profits Should Use Sustainable Companies
Non-profits benefit immensely when they partner up with BetterWorld Telecom, and that’s because our business practices are the perfect fit for non-profits. We set high standards for ourselves, so we can go above and beyond for our customers and our community as a whole. Take a look at a couple of the reasons your non-profit’s relationship with BetterWorld Telecom would blossom beautifully this spring.... -
What B Corporations Do for Our Communities
The concept of a business is simple. A business owner supplies his or her community with a product, a service, or any combination of the two. In exchange, the customers pay the business owner monetarily. This is what a for-profit business does. Business is a wonderful thing since the owner or owners make a living, while the customers are provided a beneficial product or service. However, this is only a win-win situation as long as businesses are doing more good than bad for the community. For instance, a business with factories that are severely polluting the air to manufacture a product causes more harm than good.... -
Market Street Forum with David Chiu
BetterWorld recently co-hosted the first Market Street Forum, a new quarterly gathering of Bay Area leaders, with a focus towards the intersection of the broadband economy + future of work + the resulting benefits for our society and environment. In collaboration with Varsity Technologies and the American Sustainable Business Council, BetterWorld launched Market Street Forum with featured guest speaker, President of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, David Chiu. ... -
San Francisco Steps up Big for B Corps – Board of Supervisors President, David Chiu, Proposes Incentives for CA B Corps
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President and SF Mayoral Candidate, David Chiu, today held a press conference at the Hub SoMa and laid out his plan for San Francisco to become the beacon and capital of Social Entrepreneurialism, starting with a plan for the City to provide contract bid preferences to CA B Corps or Benefit Corporations. BetterWorld has stood by Supervisor Chiu through this process, which began at a Silicon Valley Leadership Group event a few months ago and culminating recently in a roundtable with Supervisor Chiu with many SF Access Economy and B Corps leaders, including Jeff Marcous of Dharma Merchant Services, Brian Back of Sustainable Industries, David Brodwin from the American Sustainable Business Council, Alex Michel from the 5M Project and others.... -
BetterWorld Telecom 2010 Signpost
As is our annual BetterBlog tradition, we mark the passing of each January 1st with some reflection and highlights of the previous year. As we make the turn into 2011, the BetterWorld team is excited as 2010, on almost every front, was our best to date – from new partnerships, to customers, expanding our mission and furthering our efforts to provide a concrete example and direction for how the telecoms industry can be a social and environmental leader, our pathway has never been more clear.... -
Sustainability Up and Down the Left Coast
This past week, the BetterWorld team was fortunate to attend some great events and meetings up and down the west coast, seeing many familiar faces as well as many new ones. Here are some quick highlights of all the great customers, partners and new orgs that we met and saw: B Corp Portland and San Francisco Events: PremGroup’s hip HQ office was the scene last week where many existing Portland-area B Corp companies and some prospective B Corps gathered to share their own stories and learn more about the history and foundation of B Corp from co-founder, Jay Coen Gilbert.... -
Our Visit with Care2
Last week we had the pleasure of catching up with Randy Paynter, CEO an founder of Care2, a long -time BetterWorld customer and fellow B Corp company. Care2 and Randy require little introduction but in case you have been trapped under a rock for the last 10 years, Care2 has over 12....
