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18.09.08 | Colin Adamson

September Re-entry (September newsletter) Clients, Local Involvement Network, Management & Innovation, NHS, Social networking | (0)
The title of the newsletter would sound better in French: 'la rentrée' - a season in France when the State re-awakens after its long summer off and the supermarkets are filled with bargain notebooks and pens - the ones that are all squares and no lines. It is much more than 'back to school' and money off school shoes. On Leadership & Management in Business Shoes are on my mind because I have been reading the latest book by John Timpson of Timpson Shoe Repairs. The book talks about the reasons for the survival of Timpson Shoe Repairs when so many other larger and equally well-established companies have gone to the wall. The high street is a pretty spooky place if you think about it filled with the ghosts of retail chains - ou sont tous les magasins 'd'antan'? as François Villon would have put it looking at the C15th retail scene. ...
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26.08.08 | Colin Adamson

Insert your LINk link now - the NHS is on Facebook Local Involvement Network, NHS, Public Involvement, Social networking | (1)
The lead article in the HSJ of 18th August looked at how NHS organisations are using this Web 2.0 social networking site to connect with patients, staff, Government ministers and the public. Some are using it to tell people more about the personal side of their lives. We are told that the Health Secretary Alan Johnson "is taking his excellent staff out for a very liquid lunch". Hmm - rather inviting comments from the alcohol units police but we get the point - Government ministers are human and have humans working for them. Andrew Duggan of the Countess of Chester Hospital Foundation Trust wants to use Facebook to engage with young people and is quoted as saying that "an important objective for us at the moment is engaging with younger people; our staff, patients and (foundation trust) members of the future". He acknowledges the fact that this group is traditionally difficult to engage with. This is the ...
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