Breaking Out Of The Social Housing Bubble
Neil “We have to reach outside the sector” says the article stuck behind a registration/subscription page on a social housing related website. “The importance of working more collaboratively” says the session…
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Digital Inclusion and Digital Strategy
Are they essentially parts of the same whole? A few months ago, I was sat in a meeting with colleagues trying to put the finishing touches to the digital inclusion…
Revisiting A Framework For Innovation
Generating new ideas is the easy bit. Just over a year ago I started writing a post describing what a framework for innovation would look like for a small/medium non-profit…
Remote Working
Due to building work going on at home, I’ve needed the odd day of remote working here and there. It got me thinking about why remote working still isn’t the…
I Went To GovCamp Cymru And..
… All I Got Was This Awesome T-Shirt, A Brain Full Of Ideas And A Bunch Of New Contacts. This was the first GovCamp Cymru for me, despite following along…
Co-Working. Not Just For Trendy Freelancers And Startups.
Different places for different thinking. In case you’ve never heard of it, co-working is the practice of individuals or small teams working from shared office space. Aside from providing a…
What Is Your Mission?
Here’s a question posed by Esko Reinikainen that had me doing a lot thoughtful chin stroking this week. What is *your* mission? If someone asks you that at any given…
An honest appraisal of Yammer
(…and perhaps enterprise social networks in general) Over the last three years I’ve worked (sometimes unofficially) on encouraging the use of Yammer within my organisation. For whatever reason, Yammer and…
Organisational Change & Fixing The Right Problem
Consistently ace housing blogger (and fellow Neil enthusiast) Neil Goodrich posted an interesting piece about organisational change and dealing with the resistance that people can feel as a result. Go…
Organisational API
In our ever more connected age, I’ve been pondering that organisations need some sort of mechanism to open up to those on the outside. Or to use programming parlance, offer…