Great leadership is always well rewarded
I met a really inspirational Leader last week – Jack Hegarty, Managing Director at Wychavon District Council. And his leadership skill has recently been rewarded by his staff, when they gave him a 78% positive score for "Employees have a great deal of faith in the person leading the organisation" question, in The Times Best Councils to Work For Survey 2007.This, combined with the fact that he knows each of his 300+ workforce by name, often gets ‘back to the floor’ and meets each new recruit for a chat, led him to be named the ‘Best Leader’ by The Times. This comes hot on the heels of the Council winning the coveted Local Government Chronicle ‘Council of the Year’ 2007 title.
When I asked Jack for his secret, he told me that he believes in doing the simple things well and good communication is at the top of his agenda. Having clarity of vision and ensuring that everybody in the organisation knows what the objectives are and their role in achieving them is paramount. Being highly visible, inclusive and approachable are what makes Jack such an effective leader. We should all take a leaf or two out of your book, many congratulations!
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Facebook – the UK's top social website
Facebook seems to be garnering more column inches in the press than the England Rugby Team at the moment. The latest rumours are that Microsoft are negotiating with Mark Zuckerberg, the 23 year old founder of Facebook, to buy a minor stake in the company that would value it at $10 billion.
I guess it’s not that surprising, given that across the world more than 24 million people regularly use Facebook and they are joined by over 100,000 new users a day.
Facebook arrived in Britain little over a year ago and now claims more than 6 million users. Figures released in September, showed it overtaking MySpace to become the UK’s most popular social website. In the US, MySpace has three times as many users as Facebook, but the young upstart is growing five times faster.
According to the research conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings and published in The Sunday Times, the top UK and US social websites are:
UK
- Facebook – 6.5 million users, growth rate 541%
- MySpace – 6.4 million users, growth rate 20%
- Bebo – 4.4 million users, growth rate 64%
- Windows Live Spaces – 2.3 million users, growth rate -1%
- Friends Reunited – 2.1 million users, growth rate 1%
- BBC Communities – 1.5 million users, growth rate 27%
- Flickr – 1.3 million users, growth rate 20%
- Piczo – 0.9 million users, growth rate -40%
- Yahoo! Groups – 0.8 million users, growth rate -1%
- WAYN – 0.7 million users, growth rate 80%
US
- MySpace – 60.3 million users, growth rate 23%
- Facebook – 19.2 million users, growth rate 117%
- Classmates On line – 15.4 million users, growth rate 9%
- Windows Live Spaces – 8.8 million users, growth rate 7%
- AOL Hometown – 6.9 million users, growth rate -23%
- Reunion – 4.5 million users, growth rate 4%
- LinkedIn – 4.4 million users, growth rate 163%
- Club Penguin – 3.9 million users, growth rate 250%
- Buzznet – 3.8 million users, growth rate 405%
- AOL People Connection – 3.8 million users, growth rate -36%
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New 'tourism' podcast for Wyre's Coast & Countryside Team
This week saw the launch of a new website for one of our clients Wyre Borough Council – a integral part of the new site is a section dedicated to podcasts and we produced the very first show for them that you can check out here Wyre Coast & Countryside Podcast
The show was great fun to produce and highlights how easy and flexible podcasting is as a way to promote almost anything in business you care to think of.
Have a listen and give us your feedback – I’ll pass it on to the team at Wyre.
If you’d like to find out more about how podcasting can help promote your business, drop me a line jon.coulter@prizedpeople.co.uk
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Prized People are the North West region’s Blog and Podcast Production Specialists, to find out more visit www.prizedpeople.co.uk
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