When unfriending is the friendly thing to do
I'm not a great social media junkie; I think I have a Tumblr account, somewhere. I don't have an Instagram account or use Reddit, and whilst Blackberry Messenger is (apparently) installed and availab…
Tagged: community-building
Today you, tomorrow me
The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is feed the cats, then make tea, then sit and allow some of my higher brain functions to come online, usually whilst browsing Facebook. There then co…
Dandelion Breaks and how to avoid them
I have always been a great fan of Berke Breathed's cartoon strip 'Bloom County'. For those of you whose life is as yet incomplete, lacking reporting from the strange world of Bloom County, I refer you…
To Peace....
...and before everyone leaps up, glasses and coffee mugs in hands, and shouts 'To Peace' back to me, I'm not offering a toast here! I'm thinking that it's about time we made 'peace' a verb. Henri Nouw…
The Birth of a Brand
As some of you may know, I'm on the Board of the Hillsborough Forum, a group that works for the economic regeneration of the Hillsborough area of Sheffield, and also coordinates other activities in th…
A 21 hour working week? Earth calling nef....
I don't like to admit it in public, but I kind of like my work. I'm self-employed, in IT. I probably do around 35 hours a week 'client facing' work and probably about 10 hours a week grubbing up new…
John Healey - Caring, sharing New Labour - repossessions can be good!
Unsurprisingly, repossessions are at a 14 year high. It would have been unthinkable for the recession to have had any other impact on householder finances, as is indicated by this report on the BBC w…
Sheffield Sevenstones - Public funding for private gain?
What a surprise - Sheffield City Council and Yorkshire Forward are planning to chip in £20 millionstowards helping kick start the stalled £600 million 'Sevenstone' retail quarter in Sheffield City Ce…
The Social Media Numbers Game
I'm old enough to have used an address book and still have a Rolodex on the phone table. When I actually sit down and think about the people with whom I have reasonably regular 'quality' contact in a…
In the long run....
...we're all dead, so goes the old joke. I've found myself thinking of 'the long run' increasingly often over the last year, and I'm not sure why. I think partially it's due to having children around…