Monthly Archives: March 2014

Serious selfies, spring, and sensations

Thank you very much to all the contributors to Week 12’s 15 posts. Since I am behind on summaries, I hope that this brief summary will be enough to lead you to explore these posts. I found them all well worth

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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, architecture, blogging, communicating, communities, digital games, health, health services, leadership, learning, local government, management, natural environment, politics, public relations, setting goals, social care, social media, society, storm, universities, working practices

Leaving, changing, starting, springing

Despite the date on this summary, I am writing it a month after it should have been written (I have been very busy, mostly with voluntary work for a community group), so I will attempt the briefest summary I have written

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Frank Sidebottom, 150 Swedish tax inspectors and some physio

Thanks very much to everyone who contributed Week 10 posts – and apologies for my tardiness in writing the Week 10 summary. There was a strong health theme to the posts, not least since we had more healthcare professionals than usual

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Churchill, Lemons, Lists and Sunshine

Well, well, well, you have been busy this week. What a bumper crop of blogs you’ve kindly submitted for the rest of the world to enjoy, it’s really rather kind of you. Thanks. A couple of our bloggers took up

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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, beaches, blogging, budget cuts, charitable trusts, communicating, communities, cooking, cultural heritage, culture, data, fashion, food, health, health services, leadership, local government, open data, painting drawing, patient care, photography, public sector, radio, working practices, workplace

Lists, writing and memory

A wonderful post from Karen Hart this week, who writes about how Ray Bradbury used lists to spark off creative thinking through word association. Karen uses this technique and the [entirely optional] theme of colour to share with us some highlights

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Posted in culture, painting drawing, setting goals, storytelling

Boundaries . . .

A blog from Anne Marshall this week who looks at how to overcome the discrepancy between wanting to deliver a five star service on a one star budget. Anne suggests that we still want to see the best treatment and

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Posted in budget cuts, finance, health, leadership, local government, patient care, public sector, working practices

Winston Churchill and the ‘fight them on the beaches’ Pie Chart

A brilliant post from Chris Bolton this week who shares with us how Winston Churchill’s famous speech might have been received differently if he’d have used PowerPoint and pie charts. Chris is encouraging us all to deliver big messages face

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Posted in communicating, digital technology, film/video, humour, leadership, local government, media, working practices

Happy World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day, Dawn Reeves blogs about one of her favourite novels which surprisingly has local government at the heart of its plot. The story looks at communities, public/private schemes, flood plains and budget cuts – and was

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Our radio debut!

This week we hear from Sarah at Participation Cymru and her experience of being on the radio for the first time. The team were asked to take part is Diverse Cardiff, a radio show which gos out on the community

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Bring in the meningitis b vaccine

Nic Davis Uley tells us this week that meningitis kills more under 5s that any other infectious disease, and which on average kills 2 children a week, yet there is a vaccine available. Nic has joined a campaign by Meningitis Now to lobby

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