william perrin, talk about local
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Presentation by William Perrin, Founder of Talk About Local, during the last plenary 'Well-being in Social Housing - Where next?' at the third London Well-being Conference.TRANSCRIPT
William PerrinFounder
Talk About Local
• William Perrin TAL
Innovation supporting wellbeing
Peabody London Wellbeing Conference 2012
William Perrin – [email protected]@willperrin
Talk About Local Ltdhttp://talkaboutlocal.org
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Voice Place Jobs
With thanks to Juliet Michaelson NEF Centre for Wellbeing
Voice‘connecting’
With thanks to Juliet Michaelson, NEF Centre for Wellbeing
59% of people who participate in local websites feel able to influence local
decision making
Networked Neighbourhoods/London Councils research 2010
36% of people in population at large feel able in influence events in their local
area
Citizenship Survey 2009Arts and Humanities Research Council project imminent new academic study into hyperlocal websites and media
Neighbourly relations change as a direct consequence of using local website
Online networked neighbourhoods study – Flouch, Harris 2010
Place‘The world around you’
With thanks to Juliet Michaelson, NEF Centre for Wellbeing
‘In an important change to the planning system communities can use neighbourhood planning to permit the development they want to see - in full or in outline – without the need for planning applications. These are called 'neighbourhood development orders.‘
Localism Act Nov 2011
BUT – communicating spatial development is hard – risk property developers will win
+Free, easy to use online tools allow you to have new informed conversations about
spatial planning
And then print it in 3D
JobsDerive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Recruiters
77% said they used search engines to find background data on candidates
35% admitted they eliminated a candidate because of what they found online.
(Execunet, The Guardian 12 April 2011)
Job applicants
82% of candidates expected recruiters to check out their names on a search engine
33% only searched for information on themselves, to see what their prospective employer might find out.
(Execunet, The Guardian 12 April 2011)
netWorkalpha
Help your jobseekers understand how they appear online to an employer
Coming Soon from Talk About LocalSimple training to help people manage their online identity, geared to C2,D,E jobseekers
Obstacles...and overcoming them...
‘The people i work with aren’t online’
People don’t read much – but you’ve been producing leaflets and posters for years
People lack confidence for meetings – but you keep on having them
Half empty
Control is so yesterday
Even Alastair Campbell says so
This argument slowly being exposed for its true absurdity
Control ‘Are you seriously suggesting that we set up a site attached to our brand that residents can say what they want?’
Housing Assn Comms Manager (anon.)Sept 2011
Grass roots web training, based in civic action specialising in deprived neighbourhoods
UK wide
www.talkaboutlocal.org
Competition for funds and support intense and vicious
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Loud voice and strong presence
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