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"Voluntary Value Conference - FREE Event 14/11/2009 Preparing for the European Social Fund in 2010 - unlocking the potential for voluntary and community delivery Thursday 3rd December 2009 (9.30am - 2.00pm) at Somerset College of Arts and Technology Taunton. ***Limited places still available - book in whilst you can!*** This FREE South West Forum event is for organisations who deliver (or would like to deliver) ESF projects in the South West Competitiveness area, whether as a provider or a sub-contractor. The event will showcase good practice and champion the role of voluntary and community organisations in adding value to ESF funded work. It will focus on the value of partnership-working between providers and sub-contractors. Come and find out what the ESF can do for you in 2010 Download a flyer and booking form. (870 KB PDF)"

"SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE Analytics: The New Path to Value (free PDF) November 3, 2010 How the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform insights into action Some executives remain overwhelmed by the well-documented "data deluge" - 60% still say they "have more information than we can effectively use." But research now shows that leaders of the smartest organizations have moved past "overwhelmed" and are already capitalizing on increased information richness and analytics to gain measurable competitive advantage. How are they doing it? In what ways are top-performing companies exploiting data that their competitors are not? What pivotal new management practices are emerging as organizations figure out not only how to know more about their businesses, but how to act on those insights from the highest levels of strategy-making to the day-to-day front lines? To answer those questions and more, the MIT Sloan Management Review in collaboration with the IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a global survey of nearly 3,000 executives, as well as in-depth interviews with leading researchers. This MIT Sloan Management Review Special Report is the result."

Food for thought and methodology of how you could add value through use of web technologies to the customers/clients/communities you serve. Inspirational!

"2007-08 Citizenship Survey: Empowered Communities Topic Report 02/11/2009 Using 2007-08 Citizenship Survey data, this report provides an in-depth examination of community empowerment: whether people feel they can influence local and national decisions; whether they would like to be more involved in decision making; what would make it easier to influence decision making; and how people would influence decisions if they wanted to. It also looks at people's trust in institutions and what activities people actually take part in (civic activism, civic consultation, civic participation and volunteering). It is one of a series of annual reports from the 2007-08 Citizenship Survey. Other reports cover Volunteering and Charitable Giving, Identity and Values, Community Cohesion and Race, Religion and Equalities."

"'Work at Any Price' Not Working 09/11/2009 Work does not provide a guaranteed route out of poverty, according to research published this week by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. A study of the experiences and perceptions of work among residents living in six deprived areas in the UK highlights the fact that many are trapped in a cycle of 'poor work/no work' that fails to lift them out of poverty. A team from Sheffield Hallam University found that poverty-level pay can force those in employment to work excessive hours, harming the quality of their family life. For those out of work, this can act as a disincentive to leave benefits, it says. Many of those interviewed saw the value in working, in terms of increased self-esteem and reducing isolation, but gained little financially. Other issues that the research highlights include the tensions between work and parenting, with many low paid workers unable to pay for childcare and their jobs lacking the flexibility to fulfill parenting responsibilities. The research is part of a wider three year study called 'Living Through Change in Challenging Neighbourhoods'. The wider project examines the extent to which the place where you live makes a difference to your experience of poverty, and is following the lives of 180 people over three years from 2008 to 2010."

Humour & laughter: health, imune system, wellbeing, etc. follow links at bottom to more fab free PDFs. To be linked to emotional intelligence please! - my lovely charity chums our humour, EI & Social Intelligence will help us reach learners and service users more effectively. Long live fun & humour ;o) convert the toxic avengers!