Why should leaders blog?

That’s the question thrown my way by Simon Peters at Common Purpose as this international leadership charity sets out to start it’s own blogging experiment. So why? Leaders need followers and followers need to know if they can trust you. A blog helps establish how trustworthy you are. It is a patient process, but, over …

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Martin gets his Graffiti Festival.

Social Media can lead to Social Action. You may remember this Youtube film from Martin Mullaney which prompted a torrent of abuse from taggers in his Birmingham ward of Kings Heath and Moseley among the 500 or more comments from 46,000 views: [youtube]hVf1AP6EBW4[/youtube] The resulting conversation has helped establish some local action on tagging, as …

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