2020 visitors
I’ve just had the report through for my 2020 visitors to this site. Over the past 12 months there were over 1,000 visitors from 88 countries! While maybe not too surprisingly over half of these visitors came from the UK, …
Category: My blog
Speaking with impact online
It is only a couple of months since I published my new book on public speaking, and I am already thinking that it needs a new chapter – speaking with impact online. When I wrote my latest book, I was …
Campaigning is a global language
Over the last few days I have run a couple of webinars which have shown me, if I needed showing, that campaigning is a global language. The webinars were held with colleagues in Tajikistan and Ukraine. Both sessions were follow …
Another way to communicate campaigning
Today I’ve launched another way to communicate campaigning. After my website, books and video courses, I am delighted to have done a new audio course on campaigning. I know myself that I gain a lot from listening from podcasts. And …
New Book on Public Speaking
Well, it’s been another labour of love but my new book on public speaking has just been published! Speaking with Impact: an Essential Guide to Public Speaking is based on over 30 years of me giving talks and speeches in public. …
Advocacy toolkit
I was delighted to see recently that the Climate Centre has published online an international advocacy toolkit. I worked on this toolkit for the International Federation of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent back in 2017. The advocacy toolkit is …
Great course on rhetoric
I recently came across a great course on rhetoric. Over the summer I had been doing some reading around Greek philosophy. Repeatedly I came up against how importantly they viewed the subject of rhetoric. It made me conscious that in …
Great leadership course
I recently came across great a leadership course. It’s run by the Open University’s Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership. I must confess that I started out on this course with a large dose of scepticism. I have done leadership courses …
Network Entrepreneurs
Recently I got back in touch with a colleague of mine now working out of Berlin. While we were catching up with each other, he suddenly said to me, ‘you know what? I think we are both network entrepreneurs!’ I …
How do we get the credit?
I was running a campaigning webinar recently with colleagues across Bulgaria, and I was asked – how do we get the credit? The point was expressed that you can do loads of campaigning work, develop evidence and policy, build support …