Posts belonging to Category appeals and campaigns
Posted by IngridK on June 25, 2011
This week I took my son to Deen City Farm. It’s one of a small number of city farms spread across London, helping little kids tell the difference between a sheep, a cow and an alpaca. I jest a little, because I’m a country girl. But I remember taking a university friend from Philadelphia up [...]
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Tags: campaign, communications, cuts, Deen City Farm, facebook, marketing, Merton, social media, twitter, Wimbledon | 
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Posted by IngridK on April 30, 2011
I’ve been having a fabulous time on my hols in America – and I am thankful to the happy couple for giving me an extra day off. I’ve mostly been hanging out in my hometown. It’s in Lawrence County, Tennessee and sits right on top of the Alabama border. I don’t know if you’ve seen [...]
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Posted by IngridK on January 17, 2011
Using online tools to turn protest into solution.
Categories: appeals and campaigns, current events commentary, socialmedia, tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on December 20, 2010
One of the citizens who participated in our first Local by Social event in Coventry was a young guy called Kieran Armour. I wrote about him here and how his current work community volunteering work was coming to an end and how he needed some help with another chance to help others – this time [...]
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Posted by IngridK on December 2, 2010
The Local by Social events were conjured up with councillors and officers in mind originally, but it was the citizen involvement that made the Coventry event so cool. It’s all very well to design more accessible ways of reaching the council or putting out information that’s meant to hold local government to account. But unless [...]
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Tags: citizen engagement, lbys, local by social | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on March 5, 2010
Charlotte Hayes is the project co-ordinator for my work projects. Yesterday we had a fantastic event London LocalGovCamp (link to my work blog) – the premiere event for those in local government using social media to engage with citizens, communicate messages and help local people do things for themselves. Many people were involved in getting [...]
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Tags: charity, fund raising, localgovcamp, marathon, work | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 18, 2010
via salvationarmy.org One of the sermons that has made the biggest impression on me was delivered by a member of the Salvation Army’s Caribbean territory to the non-denominational congregation we attended when we lived in Puerto Rico. They did some amazing, innovative and often counter-intuitive work there. For instance, they ran a jail. A jail [...]
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Tags: appeal, charity, earthquake, haiti, salvation army | No Comments »
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