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.
2. Innovation
supporting wellbeing
Peabody London Wellbeing Conference 2012
William Perrin – william@talkaboutlocal.org
@willperrin
Talk About Local Ltd
http://talkaboutlocal.org
• William Perrin TAL
5. Voice
Place
Jobs
With thanks to Juliet Michaelson NEF Centre for Wellbeing
6. Voice
‘connecting’
With thanks to Juliet Michaelson, NEF Centre for Wellbeing
7. 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 2009
Arts and Humanities Research Council project
imminent new academic study into hyperlocal
websites and media
8. Neighbourly relations change as a direct
consequence of using local website
Online networked neighbourhoods study – Flouch, Harris 2010
12. ‘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
13. +
Free, easy to use online tools allow you to
have new informed conversations about
spatial planning
15. Jobs
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from
illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
16. 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)
17. 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)
18. Help your jobseekers understand how
they appear online to an employer
Coming Soon from Talk About Local
Simple training to help people manage their
online identity, geared to C2,D,E jobseekers
alpha
20. Half empty
‘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
21. 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
Control is so
yesterday
Even Alastair
Campbell says so
This argument
slowly being
exposed for its true
absurdity
22.
23. Grass roots web training, based in civic action specialising in deprived neighbourhoods
UK wide
www.talkaboutlocal.org
hello@talkaboutlocal.org
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25. Competition for funds and
support intense and
vicious
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imagery/456201675/sizes/o/in/photostream
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26. Loud voice and
strong presence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteaylward/5426747110/sizes/l/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60866864@N05/6512942299/sizes/o/in/photostream/