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Plan ahead and expect the unexpected
Very often we do an admirable job of dealing with normal. When things carry on, the same today as it was yesterday, we’re happy and can cope. Occasionally, though, circumstances combine and a situation occurs that isn’t routine.
We have a local recycling point. It’s about a mile away from home, so we store up the [...] -
Why is, ‘You can do it’, so hard to say?
It was late last night when Tany and I almost fell into the trap of watching a TV programme about teenagers who appeared to have swapped their lives in the UK for a place in a school in South Africa. That was what I took to be going on but as I didn’t see the [...]
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Volunteered Personal Information (VPI) – A charity’s blessing or curse?
Alan Mitchell has noted a change in information gathering for companies. Data is no longer something we have to go out looking for, quite often our customers are more than happy to provide the information for us, he calls this Volunteered Personal Information (VPI).
The reason we are suddenly quite happy to provide businesses with our [...]Aug 13th, 2009 | Filed under marketingTags: management, marketing -
UK Church Administrators Network (UCAN)
A friend has passed me details of the UK Church Administrators Network (UCAN), to share. It’s simply a group for people who are working in church administration to join and network, with the possibility of some organised training in the future.
For everyone from senior manager, through PA and secretary, to project co-ordinators, this is really [...]Apr 20th, 2009 | Filed under UncategorizedTags: church, management