Through my day job, I’m involved with lots of amazing people, but one group in particular stand out. They provide brilliant guidance and support for parents, often playing a vital role in turning situations around before things deteriorate to the point where children can end up being taken into care.
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The cycle to work scheme is a great way to get a new bike, but what else needs to be in place so that people will actually ride their bikes to work?
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Being a relatively new convert to cycling, 2012 is actually the first time I’ve ever taken an interest in the Tour de France and followed it on telly. And of course, it’s been wonderful to watch Wiggins and Froome dominate, although my cycling club buddies assert it was even more fun to watch when everyone [...]
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I recently helped organise a conference which was attended by 120 professionals from across Health, Social Services, Education, the Police, and various vol orgs. Compare this group to the average Joe Public, and you’d probably see a higher level of education, higher earnings than the local average, and better access to things like smartphones. OK, [...]
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Remember years ago when Tomorrow’s World (BBC TV) told us how amazing the future would be, that we’d all have robot cleaners and loads more spare time because computers would handle everything for us? It all seemed, and still seems so far away. Computers have largely resulted in people spending a massive proportion of their [...]
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We’ve all been there. Dull conferences, where row upon row of plastic seats face plastic speakers intent on reading their slides verbatim, turning their backs to the audience at intervals, inadvertently producing the effect of one of those old fashioned rotating Leslie speakers. We have to resort to minor forms of self harm just to [...]
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I recently blogged that I’d signed up to participate in some workshops to develop the customer service team of the local authority in which I live. Read the intro in this post. I’ve since received a very formal email thanking me for my interest but regretfully informing me that due to a lack of interest, [...]
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Anyone who has ever worked in a large organisation knows that one problem raised at almost every brainstorming session about anything is – Communication. It’s always there, and nobody is ever surprised by its presence. It’s the elephant everyone’s ok talking about, because everybody knows internal communications suck. Corporate centres continue to cling to traditional [...]
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RT @VeloViewer: Can't hold off any longer! Lots still missing but have a go of VeloViewer V3 Beta here: http://t.co/UJ9BuKs0vv @StravaRT @WilliamNB: OK, I got another 4 people to sign the cycling petition. If we ALL managed that it'd be over 250k! http://t.co/dWYn0SbIAL
RT @StravaTips: Ha, love this. MT @RibbleCycles Should have this displayed on all billboards heading into towns and cities. http://t.co/Z35OgGJRjc
@StravaTips of course it works, a quick look down and away you go....
Every Strava addict should have one
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