http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/ Social media, active citizens, podcasting, neighbourhoods and more. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:02:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-142995 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:48:10 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-142995 [...] If you want to prepare yourself listen to the sometimes tearful story of why she does what she does please listen to this podcast from the Grassroots Channel.    No Pay Makes You Powerful [13:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download [...] [...] If you want to prepare yourself listen to the sometimes tearful story of why she does what she does please listen to this podcast from the Grassroots Channel.    No Pay Makes You Powerful [13:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download [...]

]]> http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-135329 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:19:04 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-135329 [...] Ally Sultana works with women in Balsall Heath and has been developing a podcast project – she’s already explored some social media.  Audrey Miller helped create the Jubilee Debt campaign which put so much pressure on the 1998 Birmingham G8 to cancel debt to Africa. Serena Malone works with Rural net, and again is someone who may be able to teach as much as she learns. the there’s Gary Smith from firstlightmedia,  working with young people, Colin Kerrigan of the charity Stage 2.  Then there’s Linda Hines from the Witton Lodge Community Association in Perry Common, who’s also a community champion for Be Birmingham (I recently worked with Be Birmingham on simple podcasts and material for their youtube channel and flickr.) Stephen Brook is coming along from the educational charity excell3. Other community champions might join, as might community groups who’ve worked with Groundwork in Birmingham and members of the Third Sector Assembly. [...] [...] Ally Sultana works with women in Balsall Heath and has been developing a podcast project – she’s already explored some social media.  Audrey Miller helped create the Jubilee Debt campaign which put so much pressure on the 1998 Birmingham G8 to cancel debt to Africa. Serena Malone works with Rural net, and again is someone who may be able to teach as much as she learns. the there’s Gary Smith from firstlightmedia,  working with young people, Colin Kerrigan of the charity Stage 2.  Then there’s Linda Hines from the Witton Lodge Community Association in Perry Common, who’s also a community champion for Be Birmingham (I recently worked with Be Birmingham on simple podcasts and material for their youtube channel and flickr.) Stephen Brook is coming along from the educational charity excell3. Other community champions might join, as might community groups who’ve worked with Groundwork in Birmingham and members of the Third Sector Assembly. [...]

]]> http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-67887 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:23:01 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-67887 [...] Recently I met two women who run the Witton Lodge Community Association in Perry Common. It’s a resident run business which has been driving the communal and physical regeneration of this Birmingham neighbourhood.  “Being unpaid makes us powerful”, they told me. Why? For a number of reasons, but one it the freedom it creates to do what is right, rather than what the paymaster requires. Come off it…business is about money.  [...] [...] Recently I met two women who run the Witton Lodge Community Association in Perry Common. It’s a resident run business which has been driving the communal and physical regeneration of this Birmingham neighbourhood.  “Being unpaid makes us powerful”, they told me. Why? For a number of reasons, but one it the freedom it creates to do what is right, rather than what the paymaster requires. Come off it…business is about money.  [...]

]]> http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-58514 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:04:08 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-58514 [...] 4. Does no Pay Make you Powerful? Linda Hines and Michelle Ashmore of Witton Lodge Community Association on how people power is transforming Perry Common. [...] [...] 4. Does no Pay Make you Powerful? Linda Hines and Michelle Ashmore of Witton Lodge Community Association on how people power is transforming Perry Common. [...]

]]> http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-38933 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:02:49 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-38933 [...] Sue Beardsmore talks to Mary Harvey and Sheila Barker of the Witton Lodge Community Association. Also of interest will be this pdf briefing on neighbourhood policing plus earlier programmes on the volunteers running their local police station and how demolition in Perry Common planted the power in the hands of the people. [...] [...] Sue Beardsmore talks to Mary Harvey and Sheila Barker of the Witton Lodge Community Association. Also of interest will be this pdf briefing on neighbourhood policing plus earlier programmes on the volunteers running their local police station and how demolition in Perry Common planted the power in the hands of the people. [...]

]]> http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-30779 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:14:16 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-30779 [...] The residents have also transformed many of their communal areas.  Chris is standing in front of Anderton Gardens, a new garden named after a police sergeant who worked with them. (created with help from Groundwork Birmingham) The pragmatic approach of Chris and others in the Birmingham South West residents group reminds me of so many others we’ve spoken to on the Grassroots Channel, especially the people of Perry Common and Masood Yasin in Washwood Heath. [...] [...] The residents have also transformed many of their communal areas.  Chris is standing in front of Anderton Gardens, a new garden named after a police sergeant who worked with them. (created with help from Groundwork Birmingham) The pragmatic approach of Chris and others in the Birmingham South West residents group reminds me of so many others we’ve spoken to on the Grassroots Channel, especially the people of Perry Common and Masood Yasin in Washwood Heath. [...]

]]> http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-1016 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:41:58 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2006/07/27/does-no-pay-make-you-more-powerful-grassroots-channel-programme-21/#comment-1016 [...] He cites the Seti project (using pc downtime to search for ET), Wikipedia (the online collaborative encyclopaedia) and Linux, the open source software built by volunteers. He also says that the efforts of millions of amateurs can threaten those of the professionals. Wal Mart’s biggest competitor – he argues – are the legions who sell on eBay. Linux is a threat to Microsoft’s market share: These new non-organisations pose a huge challenge to the established organisational order and the professions and managers who design, control and lead them. They embody a new ethic of collaborative, shared effort, often not motivated by money. Recently I met two women who run the Witton Lodge Community Association in Perry Common. It’s a resident run business which has been driving the communal and physical regeneration of this Birmingham neighbourhood. “Being unpaid makes us powerful”, they told me. Why? [...] [...] He cites the Seti project (using pc downtime to search for ET), Wikipedia (the online collaborative encyclopaedia) and Linux, the open source software built by volunteers. He also says that the efforts of millions of amateurs can threaten those of the professionals. Wal Mart’s biggest competitor – he argues – are the legions who sell on eBay. Linux is a threat to Microsoft’s market share: These new non-organisations pose a huge challenge to the established organisational order and the professions and managers who design, control and lead them. They embody a new ethic of collaborative, shared effort, often not motivated by money. Recently I met two women who run the Witton Lodge Community Association in Perry Common. It’s a resident run business which has been driving the communal and physical regeneration of this Birmingham neighbourhood. “Being unpaid makes us powerful”, they told me. Why? [...]

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