Archive for December, 2006

Win a Sony PS3 and support young homeless people

Sunday, December 10th, 2006 | 5 Comments »

I wouldn’t normally write about specific competitions or even gadgets, but Jane Slowey (once my boss for a few months) e-mailed me about a tie-in between her organisation The Foyer Federation and Dixons and I really want others to blog about it. After all it’s a huge improvement on reports that homeless people were paid [...]

Time to capture the Dark Matter

Sunday, December 10th, 2006 | 3 Comments »

David Wilcox has just put up a post which helps think about the relationship between formal and informal structures – whether in non-profit or profit organisations.

He cites a thought which popped into the head of Lloyd Davis at It’s Social Stupid. It occurs to Lloyd that creativity most often happens in the ‘shadows’ [...]

Money Matters - but not to success.

Friday, December 8th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I was reading parts of the draft of Charles Leadbeater’s new book We-Think. (well worth a good mooch – and you can comment before he publishes.) He’s grappling with a leadership dilemma part of which can be summed up as: if organisations and professionalism are so precious to us, why are modest online structures able [...]

Masood heads for The Hague - new programme on the Grassroots Channel Podcast

Monday, December 4th, 2006 | No Comments »

Masood Yasin travels from Washwood Heath in Birmingham to The Hague ( Den Haag ) in the Netherlands to meet active citizens in Holland. Find out what his thoughts are on new approaches to jobs and education to young people plus why he wants to bring a Dutch idea to Birmingham.

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