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When Will the Lessons Stop?

Fiona McQueen looks at what the CERN Hadron Collider, Charles Dickens, and Robert Francis QC have in common, and asks some difficult questions after the publication of Robert Francis’s report into the failings of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. When

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Parent bloggers and The Lullaby Trust

This week Louise Brown shares news on how a national charity engaged with parent bloggers as part of it’s promotion and awareness raising campaign around a name change – from Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths to The Lullaby

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Never Underestimate the Importance of Briefs for Patient Safety

Laura Graham, first-time contributor to Weekly Blog Club, writes on the new Dumfries and Galloway Health blog about a core multidisciplinary team using briefs and debriefs to make prescribing better. The Dumfries and Galloway Health blog is inspired by the @Ayrshirehealth blog set up

Posted in communicating, construction industry, health, health services, internal communications, setting goals, Third sector, working practices

Doodle for charities

Louise Brown explains how useful Doodle can be for charities, and explains how to use it to arrange meetings. Doodle for charities by Louise Brown.

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Subtle differences: how to identify creative collaborative activity

Do you know your chiffchaffs from your willow warblers, just by sight? Lorna Prescott considers what creative collaborative activity is, and what it is not with examples of the small differences between two pot luck dinners. Subtle differences: how to

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Inspiring youngsters + research, resilience, randomness

It became clear when going through the Week 11 contributions that inspiring youngsters was a theme that had emerged over the previous few days. Sometimes themes emerge organically, with one post sparking off an idea for another one. This one

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Questioning Y

A reflective blog from Phil Jewitt, questioning why more women didn’t pitch a session at CommsCamp13, but also considering how if an idea is such a good idea why others haven’t picked it up before. Questioning Y by Phil Jewitt    

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Posted in communicating, democracy, gender, local government, public relations, public sector, storytelling, Third sector, unconferences

Google Alerts for charities

A really great blog by Louise Brown this week looking at Google Alerts. Louise explains what they are, how to set them up and how they are a very useful tool in ‘listening to the web’. Google Alerts for charities by Louise Brown  

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Anarchists in the Boardroom

This week Lorna Prescott shares with us a review of a few chapters of a book she is supporting in getting published. The book is called Anarchists in the Boardroom by Liam Barrington-Bush. The book looks at how organisations can

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Comms, cake, camping and chat

One Saturday recently, it became clear that my tweetstream has a lot of public sector people for whom communicating is a key part of their job because so many of them were attending CommsCamp13 in Birmingham. Of course, I had

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