Congrats to Pete Ashton from Created in Birmingham for winning a beautiful big blogging award from the Media Guardian. CiB is a shared endeavour with Stef and justified a glowing lead story on the BBC Birmingham website which encouraged the beeb to throw out some links to other Birmingham bloggers including this one. Thanks. Tis …
Podcast – cracking crime in Kingstanding, one fridge at a time.
There’s an established link between grime and crime, which is why Kingstanding Neighbourhood Forum is using public money to crack crime one fridge at a time. This podcast and the youtube video you can see here or here explain how the forum has been using £10,000 from an experiment called the Neighbourhood Performance Reward Grant. …
Podcast : residents controlling the cash in Sparkbrook
A short film and a podcast, all part of a series of four pieces on an experiment on in Birmingham which is allowing residents a more control over how public money is spent. Here you can see and hear Neville Davis of the Sparkbrook Neighbourhood Forum talk about the pro cons and a huge effort …
Orchestrating Leadership
[youtube]vtww4qUrFC0[/youtube] Benjamin Zander, Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, plays the audience at Davos. The job of leaders, he tells us, is to “awaken possibility in other people”. Hat tip.