[caption id="attachment_742" align="alignright" width="143"] Con Carey[/caption] On Saturday April 1st 1978 in the Irish village of Brosna, Co. Kerry, a burial of a local man...
Read More[caption id="attachment_728" align="alignright" width="260"] Image taken from http://www.lostcrafts.com/Blacksmith-61.html[/caption] Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth (1758) wrote: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for...
Read MoreRecently someone asked me this question: "how can you use Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in communities to address a culture of worklessness?" Questions like this slip...
Read MoreThis week's post is a video blog. It's a recording of my presentation at the One Community Conference, convened by Aberdeen Council, (Self Directed...
Read MoreIn Ireland at this time of year, we ask each other: 'how did you get 'over' the Christmas?' To which the standard refrain is:...
Read MoreThe following blog has been written by William Lilley. “There is no such thing as strangers, just friends you’ve not met yet!” To this day I can...
Read MoreAre You Being Served? is a wonderful BBC sitcom from the 70’s, it follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, as...
Read MoreIn 1957, The Hidden Persuaders was published. It quickly gained national attention and launched Vance Packard's (the author) career. The Hidden Persuaders lays bare the...
Read MoreThe Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia....
Read More[caption id="attachment_3876" align="alignleft" width="300"] Jerome G. Miller, A Bone Fide Radical[/caption] In last week’s post I shared some thoughts on the habits of non-credentialed connectors....
Read MoreThe following post explores the challenges that Commissioners and folk who Procure goods and services for various Public Sector organisations are likely to encounter...
Read MoreIf you work with communities it is hard to get through a single day without multiple mentions of the term resilience. It is of...
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