From the monthly archives:
Here at Learning Pool we get about a bit, travelling up and down the country to workshops, events, conferences and visiting customers at their offices. Getting out and about is always interesting and stimulating plus we tend to pick up great material for our blogs on the way!
I’ve stayed in many hotels over the years whilst on company [...]
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Accents are a wonderful thing, aren’t they? They remind us that we’re all different, with different backgrounds, experiences and geography. Here at Learning Pool you can hear accents from all over the world (hey Sam!).
But it can sometimes be hard deciphering what your neighbour is saying if they have a particularly rich and broad way [...]
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Birmingham is now well and truly on the digital map via the creation of it’s new virtual world, ‘Birmingham Island’.
Virtual Birmingham will promote the use of virtual technologies such as 2D/3D mapping, web 2.0 and virtual worlds for the benefit of visitors and businesses alike.
Visitors will be able to browse Birmingham’s tourist atrractions, transport links, hotels and car parks [...]
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Any of you who know me well will know that I’m a big fan of US television chat show host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
I knew that Jimmy had done some crazy commuting this time last year as he spent a week dashing between LA and New York, guest hosting in the evening for Live with [...]
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The IDeA has been running a campaign encouraging the use of plain English in local government and they’ve got some excellent case studies and features from councils.
The latest is about the creation of a style guide from North Lincolnshire Council which makes very interesting reading. The author, Stacey Dickens, talks about how, historically, local government has communicated [...]
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