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Are you getting your share of happiness?
How much happiness should you expect? Are some people in some parts of the country happier? How do we know? Does it matter? Well the government thinks it does and believes happiness can...
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Blair McPherson
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24 Gorff 2012
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This is how racism takes root
Great article in todays Guardian. The different ways the media covered two cases of men grooming children for sex show how shockingly easy it is to demonise a whole community ...
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Blair McPherson
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23 Gorff 2012
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Stuck in the middle
Getting that promotion can stress you out but not getting that promotion can give you a heart attack according to recent research. As budgets were cut, services reduced and staff made...
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Blair McPherson
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20 Gorff 2012
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The art of conversation
I’m fed up with jargon. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know I have been guilty of using jargon myself in the past, but I’m trying to make a conscious effort not to. When I started this job just...
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Liz Copeland
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19 Gorff 2012
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Becoming a Jedi Master. The secret art of cultivating online communities
This is a nicelittle slidepack from Luis Suarez who's a Community Builder and Knowledge Manager. Not the Liverpool centre forward. There's some great stuff in here and covers all the...
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Michael Norton
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19 Gorff 2012
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Few racists but a lot of racism
I have come across very few racists in Local Government but both at work and socially I have heard racist comments and inappropriate “jokes”. I explain this by the fact that people...
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Blair McPherson
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18 Gorff 2012
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How well is this country doing? The Happy Planet Index and Costa Rica
How well is this country doing? We're in a double dip recession. We know that because GDP fell by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012. So if it had risen by 0.1% would we have been...
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Adrian Barker
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16 Gorff 2012
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Public sector closet racists
In the public sector racists aren’t skin heads who shout vile abuse and threaten violence. They are middle aged men and women in suits who are charming and intelligent but who have no...
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Blair McPherson
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15 Gorff 2012
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Death in a hostle
There was a time when Social Services inspected their own Homes, a time before whistle blowing procedures, a time when complaints from relatives were trivialised. The absence of damming...
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Blair McPherson
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12 Gorff 2012
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What if you are a racist and just don't know it?
John Terry England and Chelsea footballer says he is not a racist he gives money to charities in Africa which is as convincing as saying some of my best friends are black. JT was upset at being...
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Blair McPherson
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11 Gorff 2012
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Sound advice from Tom Riordan at Leeds City Council on social media and the resilience of local government
I was delighted to meet Tom Riordan (Chief Executive of Leeds City Council) for the first time at the LGA's 2012 Annual Conference and even more pleased that he agreed to give an interview. ...
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Sarah Jennings
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10 Gorff 2012
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Outsourcing the only game in Town
Recently the Times news paper ran a pullout section on the current big thing in business which in case you didn’t know is outsourcing. This is not new I hear you say and you’re right, small scale...
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Blair McPherson
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10 Gorff 2012
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Police stop and search figures proof of racism?
Is it fair to site the Police stop and search figures as proof of racism? Police forces are up to 28 times more likely to use stop and search powers against black people that white people. Is...
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Blair McPherson
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09 Gorff 2012
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Uptake of social media amongst councillors - interview with Cllr Tim Cheetham
I had the pleasure of catching Cllr Tim Cheetham at the LGA's 2012 Annual Conference to talk about progress in the uptake of social media amongst councillors since last year. (He also gave me...
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Sarah Jennings
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05 Gorff 2012
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Maintenance release 6.3 scheduled for tonight
I thought an update on what would be included in tonights maintenance release would be useful for those who are interested. In terms of email: message notifications will be...
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Michael MacAuley
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05 Gorff 2012
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How should the community safety manager role change post-PCC?
One of the benefits of having a national role is the opportunity to spend time with some of the best thinkers from across the sector. In the past couple of days I’ve met with two women who are...
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Chris Williams
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04 Gorff 2012
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Organising a zoo?
Last night I attended and hosted one of David Gurteen’s Knowledge Café. If you have not been to one, its well worth the evening and it’s free to attend. The facilitator for the session...
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Michael Norton
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03 Gorff 2012
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LGA's annual conference in numbers
The LGA's Annual Conference is over for another year and we're all exhausted but elated with how it went. We're particularly pleased with the online elements which make us even more positive...
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Sarah Jennings
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02 Gorff 2012
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Review: PCC Day at the LGA Conference
Yesterday saw PCC Day at the LGA Annual Conference, where close to 50 PCC candidates joined around 1,200 delegates in Birmingham for the final day in local government’s yearly jamboree. Below is...
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Chris Williams
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29 Meh 2012
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Co-production in health and social care
Do you think there's a need for people to seek to work more closely with those responsible for health, the providers of social care and the deliverers of other services? And by 'those...
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Adrian Barker
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27 Meh 2012
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Local Government Challenge 2012 – the final challenge
The Local Government Challenge, now in its third year, is designed to give staff with the drive and determination to reach the top, the opportunity to demonstrate their individual and team...
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Liz Copeland
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27 Meh 2012
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Local Government Challenge 2012 – the final challenge
The Local Government Challenge, now in its third year, is designed to give staff with the drive and determination to reach the top, the opportunity to demonstrate their individual and team...
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Liz Copeland
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27 Meh 2012
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From bonsai trees to biscuits – how do we create healthy organisations?
It’s a good question and one that was addressed by key private sector business leaders Brian Dive, Managing Director of DMA Consultancy and Anthony Thomson, Chairman of Metro Bank this morning. ...
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Liz Copeland
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27 Meh 2012
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The Health of the Nation – Plenary 2
This morning at the LGA conference I attended the plenary session on how councils can make the best of the reforms in the NHS. A new LGA report was published on the LGA webiste in tandem with...
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Michael MacAuley
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02 Gorff 2012
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The Health of the Nation – Plenary 2
This morning at the LGA conference I attended the plenary session on how councils can make the best of the reforms in the NHS. A new LGA report was published on the LGA webiste in tandem with...
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Michael MacAuley
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02 Gorff 2012
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Local leadership, better health – public health workshop
Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive Designate of Public Health England, began the session on the local government’s new public health role by saying that he had come to the conference in listening...
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Alyson Morley
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26 Meh 2012
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Local leadership, better health – public health workshop
Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive Designate of Public Health England, began the session on the local government’s new public health role by saying that he had come to the conference in listening...
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Alyson Morley
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26 Meh 2012
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Talking it over - why CSMs and PCCs need to start chatting now
Across the country the PCC campaigns are starting to properly swing. Last week Labour announced its 41 candidates, and seemingly every day new Conservative candidates are being announced, to join...
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Chris Williams
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26 Meh 2012
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Over worked and over tired
Do you wake up refreshed and energised or do you struggle out of bed following another restless night tired even before the day has started? You are not alone a new study by Vielife involving...
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Blair McPherson
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21 Meh 2012
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IRISS.FM - Internet radio for Scotland's social services
IRISS has launched a new service, IRISS.FM. Right back to 2006 IRISS has been recording talks of interest to the Social Services sector in Scotland. ` We feel the time is right to widen the...
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Lesley Duff
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25 Meh 2012
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Connecting with communities through conversations
Did you know...? More than two thirds of online adults are connected to one or more social media platforms. Half of Facebook’s 30 million UK users log on every day. 70 per cent of...
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Liz Copeland
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19 Meh 2012
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Re Branding
I visited my mother in law recently in her sheltered housing scheme and I noticed her Housing Association had changed their logo again. This seems to be the fashion in the public sector as...
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Blair McPherson
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19 Meh 2012
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The Public Sector is the real thing (Charlie Chaplin)
Apparently Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest! How could the real thing be rejected in favour of a lookalike? Why would anyone chose a poor imitation over the...
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Blair McPherson
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14 Meh 2012
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How to blatantly promote your group on the Knowledge Hub
How to blatantly promote your group on the Knowledge Hub Are you a facilitator of a group on the Knowledge Hub? And you’re not a member of the Online Facilitators Community; well...
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Michael Norton
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12 Meh 2012
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The Good and the Bad in our Leaders
Leaders risk not realising their full potential if they don’t develop insight into the effect their behaviour has on others. The very qualities that make some individuals outstanding leaders...
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Blair McPherson
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11 Meh 2012
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Social media, digital inclusion ... winds of change ....
With just over two weeks to go until the LGA's Annual Conference in Birmingham, things are getting mighty busy in the communications department here. Last year we experimented with...
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Sarah Jennings
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08 Meh 2012
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A provocative appiontment
Naming a civilian as the Governments preferred candidate for the post of Chief Inspector is provocative. After all he has already had the police marching through the streets of London in...
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Blair McPherson
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08 Meh 2012
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UnCivil Servants
It’s nothing to do with pensions or pay freezes we just think our colleagues are incompetent, appointed for their political affiliations not their ability and our ministers are blinkered...
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Blair McPherson
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07 Meh 2012
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The numbers are what counts
The officer was making a presentation on the performance in the third quarter. The chair interrupter with a series of rhetorical questions which highlighted an area where performance had...
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Blair McPherson
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06 Meh 2012
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Truth, Trust and Twitter
It was great to see social media high on the agenda for day one of this year’s LGCommunications conference in Birmingham, which I attended on Tuesday. Indeed the first publication I picked up...
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Liz Copeland
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31 Mai 2012
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Call yourself a manager
Management covers a range of activities, managing budgets, managing information, managing buildings and equipment. But you are not a proper manager unless you manage people. People are...
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Blair McPherson
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28 Mai 2012
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Commissioning - what PCCs will need to know
Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the ACPO Conference, in a session entitled "Making Sense of Commissioning" on the PCC day of the event. Given the close links with...
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Chris Williams
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29 Mai 2012
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Hire and Misfire
I would have sacked a lot more people if I could have got away with it. If this government has its way then in the future managers will be able to fire at will. Under a raft of proposals...
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Blair McPherson
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24 Mai 2012
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Chillaxing
Chillaxing is a new word combining chilling as in chill out and relaxing. It is being used in relation to leadership to describe someone who doesn’t let work issues worry them unduely and finds...
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Blair McPherson
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22 Mai 2012
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The Human Factor in PM
Reading research on HCC's PM approach. Implication for successful outcomes result from choice of project manager! So in your organisation do you look for people who understand power...
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Roger Barrett
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22 Mai 2012
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e-learning for PM
New e-learning package launched internally to support PM skillset and ensure those benefits get delivered! If interest is sparked please get in contact.
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Roger Barrett
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22 Mai 2012
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The fall of Rome
The opening scene of the film The Fall of the Roman Empire pans steeply up to the top of a high viaduct. Along the top, lined up shoulder to shoulder, on the very edge looking down at...
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Blair McPherson
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21 Mai 2012
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Are you a knower?
I have written a guest blog for Progression Partnership and it is available here http://www.progressionpartnership.com/are-you-a-knower
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Paul Summers
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21 Mai 2012
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PCCs - the big question for CSPs!
In this age of austerity, the question on the lips of many partnerships is - "What will happen to our money next year?" Places have been used to having percentage reductions in grant funding...
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Chris Williams
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18 Mai 2012
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The numbers can't hear you
The officer was making a presentation on the performance in the third quarter. The chair interrupter with a series of rhetorical questions which highlighted an area where performance had...
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Blair McPherson
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16 Mai 2012
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Bounce- back ability
I don’t recommend getting the sack as a way to advance your career. But if you have never failed, never been out of step with colleagues and never refused to compromise then you probably...
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Blair McPherson
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11 Mai 2012
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The Knowledge and Information Management for the Public Sector Group needs you!
The Knowledge and Information Management for the Public Sector otherwise knows as (KIMPs) has always been more of a knowledge stewarding community. With it’s large collection of...
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Michael Norton
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10 Mai 2012
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Why don't we do what works?
In her new book “Delivering public services that work” Charlotte Dell gives case example after case example of public sector organisations that have found a better way of doing...
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Blair McPherson
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10 Mai 2012
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It’s not all over for the sweet toothed web - Cookies and Privacy
Today I attended one of DCLG’s Local Direct Gov ‘Really Useful’ sessions on Cookies and Privacy. This was to discuss the consensus approach to the forthcoming EU Electronics Communications...
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Michael MacAuley
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28 Mai 2012
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Plugging the gaps
In a recent survey of 50 local authorities by the RCA a third reported achieving budget savings by cutting a little from every budget where as the majority were cutting costs by setting up...
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Blair McPherson
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07 Mai 2012
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Ever wondered how much the BBC pay for Recruitment Advertising?
Here's a link to a PDF of a FOI request made for that exact information for the periods 2007, 2008 and 2009. http://alexkavel.s3.amazonaws.com/BBC_spend_on_recruitment_advertising.pdf
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Douglas Shirlaw
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27 Ebrill 2012
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myjobscotland - Android App now available
Further to the preview of the new Android App at the last SuperUser day in March, the app finally went live on the Google Play store yesterday. Using the same functionality as the...
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Douglas Shirlaw
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27 Ebrill 2012
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How far should a local authority go to get what it's owed?
Not everyone pays their bills. A local authority has a duty to ensure public money is properly managed and this means chasseing up those who don’t pay their council tax, their rent or...
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Blair McPherson
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03 Mai 2012
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Involving people to get their input to groups and partnerships
A familiar, difficult and critical issue came up at our Healthwatch development group recently. Basically: 'it's great having all you people round the table – we've accepted any offers...
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Adrian Barker
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24 Ebrill 2012
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New stuff to play with
Well it seems only a blink of an eye since I wrote the last post but so much has happened. There's been lots of social and messaging functions added to the platform and we finally delivered...
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Michael MacAuley
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24 Ebrill 2012
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Headhunters,Beauty parades and Trial by Sherry
My personal experience is that the process of filling senior management posts is complex and drawn out over several days. Is this the best way to get the right person for the top...
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Blair McPherson
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25 Ebrill 2012
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Does transparency of data need comparability?
The National Audit Office have released today a report on data transparency. I think they have slightly misunderstood the nature of transparency when it comes to discuss local government (see...
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Neil Wholey
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19 Ebrill 2012
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Updated Local Councils' Innovation Framework available now
A new version of the Local Council’s Innovation Framework is now available. It has been updated in response to the sector consultation. Chief executives, or other senior managers, can use the...
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Joan Munro
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15 Ebrill 2013
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Relax don't do it
Relaxed about the budget, relaxed about the restructuring, relaxed about the prospects of the service being outsourced we may have got it wrong about all those stressed-out public sector...
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Blair McPherson
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25 Ebrill 2012
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The only reward for hard work is more work
When you read that statement did you think, yes, the more I do the more they give me to do? As a manager it is very tempting to pile on the work to someone you know will do a good job as...
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Blair McPherson
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16 Ebrill 2012
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Recipe for success…how to cook up a day of public sector digital goodness
Serves: 16431+ Preparation time: as long as it takes Cooking time: a day or so Ingredients 60+ digi types (a high quality mix from 14 local authorities and 16 public...
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Lesley Thomson
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14 Ebrill 2012
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Recipe for success…how to cook up a day of public sector digital goodness
Serves: 16431+ Preparation time: as long as it takes Cooking time: a day or so Ingredients 60+ digi types (a high quality mix from 14 local authorities and 16 public...
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Lesley Thomson
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14 Ebrill 2012
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Ricky Gervais a legitimate target?
Ricky Gervais a legitimate target? It‘s always risky getting up to go to the bar or toilet during a stand up comics routine especially if you are on the front row. So I suppose I should have...
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Blair McPherson
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13 Ebrill 2012
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The Secrets Google Analytics is Dying to Share
I came across a great article from Martha Iring. With more and more people just starting to use Google Analytics to view metrics from the groups on the Knowledge Hub. This is...
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Michael Norton
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05 Ebrill 2012
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The state of community management and much more
I thought I would try out Scoopit as a way to content curate regarding online facilitation. This is my first attempt. I hope you can see it.
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Michael Norton
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04 Ebrill 2012
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What we did in March
Ah, year end; that mythical time when finance people get shirty, business plans get spewed out, and everyone desperately waits to see how much budget they’ll be allocated for the next FY. Or...
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Chris Williams
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04 Ebrill 2012
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KM mini-interviews with Edward Rogers (CKO Of NASA)
I picked this up via David Gurteen who mentioned that Ankur Makhija of eClerx Services have recently uploaded a few more KM mini-interviews to their YouTube channel. The latest are...
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Michael Norton
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02 Ebrill 2012
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Mea culpa
Well, what's done is done is done. Migration of all content and people from Communities of Practice is finished. We have migrated some 1,000+ communities and 100,000 user accounts. CoP...
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Michael MacAuley
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01 Ebrill 2012
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Youth Work degree at Napier University
Dear colleagues, Napier university are recruiting for their work based youth work degree programme. This course offers a flexible, practice based and Scottish policy context route to...
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Gavin Crosby
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27 Mawrth 2012
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Yes we do talk about you
My colleague on the senior management team seemed surprised even shocked. “Do you mean to say you talk about me and members of my team in your meetings? As if this was...
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Blair McPherson
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22 Mawrth 2012
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