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Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 23, 2008

  Communities in Control: real people, real media.

Empowered people tend to be good at conversation, understand their place in networks, have experience of how networks help get things done. So it is very good news that the new Government Empowerment White Paper acknowledges that social media (the conversational web) will play a part in...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Mar 31, 2008

  Urban Obsessives or Civic Revolutionaries, they still look much like this…

Take a good look at this picture. It is full of what I would call ordinary folk. None of them appear to be super heroes, to fit the heroic mould we have created for our social entrepreneurs and active citizens. They are David Barrie’s fellow “bloody...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Mar 30, 2008

  Routes and barriers to citizen governance - a Joseph Rowntree Report from Birmingham and Wolverhampton

Good community leaders need to be connected, competent and of good character. That is one of the blindingly obvious conclusions of a survey in the West Midlands for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation . The researcher explains what they set out to do This study examined the realities of...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Mar 29, 2008

  Five new blogs - four from Birmingham one not - plus something new from Wordpress.

I just want to say hello to Andrew Hemmings who moved from lurker to blogger after last night’s mini Birmingham Bloggers meet in the Spotted Dog. (Don’t panic, it was an impromptu meeting for Joanna Geary who will miss the next one this Monday 7pm at Rooty Frooty in the Custard...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Mar 13, 2008

  Podcast: Solving a Stinking Mess in Bordesley Green

Click here for more video and audio from the Grassroots Channel. If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do? Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Programme Reward Grant (NPRG) –...... [view]

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