My new agency for worldchanging communications, ON:SUBJECT, has seen the light of day last month. You’ll find me blogging over there from now on…. Continue Reading
My new agency for worldchanging communications, ON:SUBJECT, has seen the light of day last month. You’ll find me blogging over there from now on…. Continue Reading
I can’t say it often enough: If you are working for a small, cash-starved, well-meaning nonprofit, please resist the temptation to have your website custom-built. Do yourself a favour and go open source. Even if you might have the money today to pay for someone to programme all the bells and whistles you might want… Continue Reading
One of the problems with a blogging schedule is that you postpone the post until last minute and then you get sick. Or decide to watch Tatort. Or both. A friend of mine is deeply involved in setting up a sustainability scheme for restaurants here in Belgium. One of her problems: Restaurants touch upon so… Continue Reading
“We’ve become very good at inviting the right people and making them feel good in conversations,” explained U. “But when it comes to taking action, hardly anything happens.” The European Commission clearly is a difficult beast to change. Together with a group of likeminded officials, U. had hosted a series of events and conversations to… Continue Reading
Last week, I had a conversation with Adam Kahane, author of the book “Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change”. He had related his impressions from witnessing the Copenhagen climate change summit to a group of social entrepreneurs at the Hub in Brussels by describing two opposed camps: Those that focus on… Continue Reading