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		<title>Podcast: mediation services and our global context</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/podcast-mediation-services-and-our-global-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spoke at Mediation Yorkshire&#8217;s Annual General Meeting earlier this month. I&#8217;ve been associated with Mediation Yorkshire since I managed a community mediation service in York in 1996. As a freelance consultant I&#8217;ve worked several times with them, most recently on supervision skills training.
My talk touches on: trends in volunteering; the contribution that mediation services [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=209&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting the global commons: citizens do it better than economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners of this year’s Nobel prize for economics have rewarded research into effective governance which lies outside traditional economic models.
In particular, laureate Elinor Ostrom has shown how community-driven projects can be more efficient than privatisation or nationalisation. User-managed examples of common property – rivers, woods, lakes etc – derive better outcomes than predicted by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=206&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New contract published by York Council – closing date 12 June 1833.</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-contract-published-by-york-council-%e2%80%93-closing-date-14-june-1833/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted: Scavengers for the sweeping and cleansing of the streets.
A near-universal change in Western non-profit sectors has been a shift from grants to contracts for service delivery. Many Third Sector organisations are working out how – or even whether – to compete against their peers and the private sector. For many this has been a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=197&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Encouraging sustainable behaviour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What helps people adopt sustainable behaviours?
It has long been known that information is not enough when it comes to campaigns on obesity, smoking, teenage pregnancies etc – and the same is true for promoting efforts against climate change.
Research suggests that some messages work better than others (http://coinet.org.uk/news/2009-10-06/psychology-sustainable-behaviour). By way of summary:


People don’t worry about things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=191&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From parenting to management (5): Saying yes or saying no</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From parenting …
We have the patter of tiny feet here in the house – not another child, but a hamster in its cage. After four months of sustained lobbying, which convinced us that our daughter would bring the commitment to care for a pet, I gave in and we bought her one for her birthday.
Gave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=181&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring change: who decides what&#8217;s measured?</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/measuring-change-who-decides-whats-measured/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the summer and early autumn helping two organisations improve their ability to reflect on and learn from their experience. Both pieces of work have involved how to measure change in the real world.
The first was designing an impact assessment framework for International Service. They do capacity-building with local organisations in five countries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=177&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on collaborative working</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/more-on-collaborative-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I used the analogy of star-formation to discuss one aspect of consortia-building. I want now to turn to poetry as a means of highlighting another side of working in closer partnership.
Try these lines from an e.e.cumming’s poem (the lower-case letters are the poet&#8217;s conventional style):
love’s function is to fabricate unknownness
…
how lucky [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=167&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Star formation and partnership-building</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/star-formation-and-partnership-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 10:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My current desktop photo is an image of the Reflection Nebula, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The description from the www.hubblesite.org says in part: “The bright, young star left of center gives the nebula its brightness. The gas and dust of the nebula is left over from the star&#8217;s formation.”
I love the concept of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=156&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The future of the UK third sector</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/the-future-of-the-uk-third-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An NCVO Third Sector Foresight policy forum in January 2009 looked ahead to possible public policy agendas in 2014.
Using a range of drivers, and imagining a combination of two &#8220;critical uncertainties&#8221; &#8211; specifically, the length &#38; depth of the current recession, and whether a Labour or Conservative government is in power in 2014 &#8211; several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=152&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In-store book printing</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/in-store-book-printing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is a neat idea: a local bookstore-based printing machine that prints on demand from a catalogue of 500,000 titles. And that catalogue is just for starters &#8211; it will top a million by this September.
As The Guardian reports, the Espresso Book Machine offers a viable alternative to ordering books online &#8211; so long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=147&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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