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Three Reasons A Freemium Model Would Never Work In Housing 12 Jun 2013 | 01:00 pm
It’s been just over a fortnight now since I published a blog talking about the possibility of how a freemium model would work within the world of housing associations. Judging from the discussion it g...
Where's The New Site? 8 Jun 2013 | 01:23 am
A rather non-descript email from our host 34SP.com earlier hid the rather startling news that not only had they deleted the new blog and all previous posts, but they'd also found that the back-ups wer...
From Where I Sit Is Changing! 9 Jan 2013 | 02:00 pm
Just to update anyone with an old bookmarks that my new website can be found over at Housing Associations, so please take a moment to have a look at the new site and catch up on all the latest posts. ...
The End Of This Blog As We Know It 19 Dec 2012 | 02:00 pm
As 2012 (and, possibly, the world) is shortly to come to an end, I've been casting my mind back over my last year of blogging and found my thoughts going in two directions. Firstly, while the title of...
It's Cold, It's Christmas And It's Callous 12 Dec 2012 | 02:00 pm
Sometimes there are things you have to do that you know you are not going to enjoy. Like reading the latest DWP Impact Assessment for Universal Credit. I read it because I thought it might shed some l...
My Review Of The Northern Housing Summit 2012 5 Dec 2012 | 02:00 pm
The Northern Housing Summit organised last week by the Northern Housing Consortium #NHCsummit on Twitter was a good do (there's a good Storify from the NHC events team which rounds up a lot of the cov...
Are You Going To Disrupt Or Be Disrupted? 28 Nov 2012 | 02:00 pm
One of the most notable things about the housing sector is that right now everything is changing. If history has taught us one thing it's that at a time when everything changes there are people who wi...
So How Do We Actually #killwonga? 21 Nov 2012 | 07:49 pm
There’s a well-known philosophical conundrum: if a tree falls in an empty wood – does it make a noise? Well, I'm sorry to reveal to any navel-gazers out there who have been pondering this question for...
Kill Wonga: Or How Could Housing Associations Work With Community Organisers? 14 Nov 2012 | 02:00 pm
I might have mentioned previously that my time working on the National Housing Federation has come to an end. I hugely enjoyed the six years I spent with the organisation and I’m sure – in fact, I kno...
How Technology Can Re-invent Housing Part Two 7 Nov 2012 | 02:00 pm
The future? Following the first part of the rundown on how new technology could influence housing this week's post compiles a top five - although really there's no "order" as such. In fact, if you lo...
