5 days in Lesvos – The Situation
When I came home from our first trip to Slovenia I was an emotional wreck, all I wanted to do was cry. I wrote a blog to try and work through all the emotions...
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Using technology to make a difference
I’ve worked in the world of business collaboration for coming up 6 years. The holy grail of success is being able to answer the big question “what is in it for me” or WIIFM...
Networking 101
I read this (short) article today How to end a conversation any conversation gracefully – there isn’t much in the article that is new but it did remind me of a situation I found myself...
56 hours and 2000 miles Kim’s account of the Words and Warmth Relief Run
Until this week I had never been to Slovenia, until this week I’d met very few people from Syria. But all that changed over the space of 56 hrs. I’ve struggled with how best...
Kim’s Why…
A number of people have asked me why I am doing this trip…there are two reasons, one “because I can” I am very fortunate to work for a company (https://www.facebook.com/pearsonplc) that allows me to...
Guide to Volunteering Along the Refugee Route Through Europe
BRIEF MANUAL FOR VOLUNTEERS Many thanks go to the czech bunch: their original version is the main source of information for this one, we added just few details: What to take with you: Reflective...
Refugee Relief Run October 2015
A colleague and I are making use of our volunteering days at Pearson by driving to Austria with supplies for the refugees. We’re leaving on Saturday 24th October to drive a van-load of children’s clothing...
Listening to your community, part two focus groups…
The next step to really listen to our community was to dig a little deeper on the themes we had identified through the survey. When you cover a community of 40,000 people you need...
Listening to your community, part one create a survey…
Listening to your community is one of the most important tasks of a community manager. If you had asked me at the beginning of the year, “do you listen to your community?” I would...
Choice, variety and back to basics…
This week we’ve had the pleasure of having a student on work experience join our team, she’s 16 and has just finished her GCSE’s. We had a coffee and a chat and I asked...