Well earned gongs for North West’s best

I was entertained by former colleague John Quinton-Barber’s tweets from the CIPR’s North West PRide awards last night, with IPB looking like they were having another good night. Cracking gold win for @ipbcomms at #pridenw http://t.co/idd2EpI2— John Quinton-Barber (@johnqbarber) November 23, 2011

Former colleagues win recognition for crisis work

My former colleagues at IPB Communications have built a reputation over the last 10 years for being the people you would want in your team when the going gets tough. So I was delighted, but not surprised, to learn from their newsletter which landed in my email box today that they have been shortlisted for [...]

Twelve months that have passed like a train

In what has been a varied and challenging week at work, I’d forgotten until today that it has been a year since I left my old job at IPB Communications. Maybe it’s a measure of what has happened in that time (the hectic end to the last financial year, followed by an election, new Government [...]

Links I like 11.01.11

‘Social enterprise has found a new home in housing’ – Guardian Professional The Guardian’s Social Enterprise Network ran a piece yesterday about how social landlords are finding different ways to deliver better homes and stronger communities. My HCA colleague and director Colin Molton is quoted, alongside a number of organisations who have at one time been clients [...]

Another year survived: five reasons to remember 2010

By any measure, 2010 has been a hell of year. On a personal level, it saw me relocate, switch jobs and get to know a new part of the country. For the sectors in which I work and the country at large, it was a year that saw a shift towards a new ‘reality’, sometimes at [...]