Knowledge Peers

So far, my ‘sitting on both sides of the charity/corporate fence’ blogs have looked at finding the ‘click’ between your charity and big business and, in the absence of an obvious click, finding ways to get  individuals within the company on your side.

But what if those two channels don’t work? In this third and final blog, here’s some approaches to try when all else fails.

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Last month I was a panellist in a debate at NFPTweetup about the role of digital media and how it can help tackle the challenges facing the sector. (For those of you who haven’t been, NFPTweetup is a fantastic quarterly meet up for charity sector professionals with an interest in digital and social media). It was a really interesting evening and it’s le...

I'm having breakfast with Ed and Ken tomorrow morning (Monday 30th April). Seriously, I got invited yesterday and will have the chance to chat to them over coffee and croissants. All thoughts on questions would be very welcome, and I'll update this blog tomorrow once I've met them. We're even taking the KP video team along.

More from me later, but do add questions to this blog!

Stakeholder engagement can trace its origins back to the early participatory movements of the 1960s. People in environmental and community groups wanted to have a say in the way that their local areas were being changed. Governments and community leaders realised that they had to make sense of the process as neither the mechanisms of protest nor of public inquiries worked.

In particular the Sherry Arnstein, a town planner from the USA developed the Ladder of Participat...

Today we had a visit from Ed Miliband and Ken Livingstone. They had a tour of Kennington Park, owned, developed and managed by Workspace Group, home to lots of interesting, growing businesses. People seem to like working here and it’s a hub for sharing ideas, business and resources.

BCG predicts that the percentage of UK spending on online advertising (of all advertising) will increase from 28.9% in 2010 to 37.3% in 2016 - not a bad performance for a channel that simply did not exist twenty years ago.

According to BCG, SMEs who use the web effectively (“high web users”) grow and add jobs more quickly than those who do not.

Already 80% of “high web users” use Search Engine Optimization” (SEO). But only 16% o...

So Boris did it again...

We were however, delighted to meet with team Labour - Ken Livingstone and ...