I found the intresting ‘Communities of Practice’ website; it’s for local government people, and most of the communities of practice are for fairly esoterically local government subjects, but there are a number of social care ones, some local and community topics.

Communities of Practice are an idea of a management guru called Wenger, who argues that people who work together learn together; in effect this iteration of it is a local government networking site. There’s no reason why non-LA people should not join, although you have to guarantee not to use information from it for personal commercial purposes. But social workers and hospices are all working in the public interest. Aren’t they?

This is the site: http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/welcome.do

In memory of a snowy trip to Stavanger, more pics this week of St Christopher’s in the great London snow; if we’re really only getting them every eighteen years, these will be historic scenes.

Snow pool