Kind Readers: On Monday, June 15, the NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. stock exchange announced that it had developed a new index of stocks meant to track corporate sustainability performance. Called the ' The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 Index ' (TNOCGS50I), the index tracks the triple-bottom line of 50 global companies. I read this and thought: I need to develop a stock index of companies that do cause marketing. But first I need a name. So you'll notice at the top of the column to the right a poll to help name the cause marketing index of stocks. I've listed basically the first four ideas that came to me: The first is a play on the standard-bearer of stock indexes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The DJIA... aka 'the Dow'... is named for two of the founders of the Wall Street Journal ; Charles Dow and Edward Jones. Since my name is Paul Jones the first option is a sort of guerilla marketing play on the DJIA, only nicknamed 'the Paul.' The second is ...
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