Book Club: Engagement from scratch
New for 2012 on Birds on the Blog is the Birds on the Blog Book Club. We’re really excited about this and we’d love you to join us in reading, reviewing and discussing a wide variety of books over the coming year. We’ll also be interviewing authors, and inviting them to participate in Q&A sessions [...]
12 Days of Christmas: 5 Managers
I volunteered for this post in the Birds’ 12 Days of Christmas series, and it wasn’t long before I found myself wishing I’d volunteered for something else! I soon realized that choosing 5 managers was going to be trickier than I’d thought. It’s not that there aren’t many notable managers to choose from, quite the [...]
Illegal Immigration: would you report your neighbour?
Always a favourite hobby-horse of politicians and journalists, it seems that immigration, and illegal immigration in particular, is rarely out of the news these days: barely a day goes by without someone fanning the flames of fear and suspicion for their own ends. UK Prime Minister David Cameron recently gave a speech about his plans [...]
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
What’s one of the main reasons for suffering caused by violence? In this world of ours, violence is all too common across gender, country, culture, society, age and status – so why should there be a day specifically marked for raising public awareness of and eliminating violence against women? The facts are these: [...]
World Toilet Day: health, dignity, and well-being
I’ve written a few posts about World Days for Birds on the Blog, but perhaps none quite as bizarre-sounding as World Toilet Day. At first glance it seems a little comical in nature, with maybe even the potential for engaging in a little bit of clever toilet humour, but there’s a much more serious side [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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