Those of you across the sector will more than likely know that Housing 2023 took place in Manchester last week. As a team, we split ourselves across the three days of the annual conference to catch up on hot topics...
I failed my first driving test on minors. I was a good driver, the examiner assured me as I tried to control my shaking jelly knees, but I was just too nervous to pass. Twenty years later, I sat...
Just because something is difficult, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing. But for a long time, labelling groups as “hard-to-reach” has shifted responsibility away from the organisations and comms teams who should have been doing more to engage with...
When we eventually reach the other side of this pandemic, we could find ourselves working within organisational cultures that have changed, and for the better. So, let's not completely go back to normal. Right now, we're all in this together....
Last summer, Silicon Valley giant LinkedIn made the surprise move of choosing Lincolnshire fishing town Grimsby as the location for a pilot project to help people find work and develop their careers. Four local people, including a café worker and...
Once upon a time, people would be content to turn up to work, do what they did, and wait patiently for the pay cheque at the end of the month. According to HR experts, those days are over. Now we all want...
If you follow See Media on Twitter, you may have already seen us talking about some of the discussions from this year’s Inside Housing Communications Conference. A number of themes emerged from the comms event and here, we’ve identified the...
As governments have come and gone, and ideas for national tenants' organisations have been exalted and faded away, thousands of residents have carried on regardless, working on behalf of their communities. Across the UK, these individuals put huge amounts of...
Five different ways housing associations can use Twitter As an Account Executive at See Media, the first thing on my to-do list when I arrive at my desk each morning is to monitor media coverage and Twitter activity on behalf...