The Most Popular Posts of 2011 - Part Two

A warm welcome to 2012

For the final post of a momentous 2011, I thought you might be interested to know what the most popular posts of 2011 were. Last week featured the 10th - 6th most popular and this week is the final countdown.

Best wishes to all for the festive season and wishing you an exciting and prosperous 2012. I'm almost certain the Mayans had it all wrong. We'll see...

5) Introducing Abodes Singles
A blog post introducing our innovative new product that seeks to connect single homeless people with properties, something that can be tricky to do.


4) Will This Be The Era Of Consumer-Led Public Services?
How will the huge changes in public services manifest be represented and (a common theme on this blog) how can we create a new measure of success that moves us on from purely financial metrics?

3) Do we really have to clamp down on welcome mats

Well, do we? It would seem given a later post on this blog that the answer is no. I'll report back in 2012 to let you know how our pilot scheme is going. 

2) Can you be innovative in housing? 

Inspired by a radio programme about pencils (read the blog and it does makes sense) I've been thinking about how we can create innovative products and services in housing. 

1) When social housing and social networking collide

Do you tweet? Facebook? Are you beginning to wonder whether to invest time in Google+? If you're wondering about the value of social media for social housing organisations then have a read of this. It would seem that many of you are, as it's been the most popular post of the year.