William Perrin, Talk About Local

William PerrinFounder

Talk About Local

• William Perrin TAL

Innovation supporting wellbeing

Peabody London Wellbeing Conference 2012

William Perrin – william@talkaboutlocal.org@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

hello@talkaboutlocal.org

Competition for funds and support intense and vicious

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Loud voice and strong presence

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