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BUILD COMMUNITIES OF INFLUENCE
ENGAGE AND EMPOWER PEOPLE
MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE
INFLUENCE & INFORM DECISION-MAKING
GATHER EVIDENCE AND FRESH INSIGHT
COLLABORATE AND SAVE TIME
IMPROVE AND CO-DESIGN SERVICES
EARN POINTS FOR PARTICIPATION
WORK SMARTER AND REDUCE COSTS
EVALUATE
AND LEARN
AND LEARN
HELP COMMUNITIES PULL TOGETHER
FEEL REWARDED AND RESPECTED
Together... we can
People Matters Network delivers greater evidence and insight through more engaged and empowered communities.
So far in just 12 months...
100s of communities engaged
50 new evidence banks now track and evaluate performance
100s of engagements deliver greater insight
1000s of people now making a real difference to service delivery
1000s of people empowered to influence decisions
So far in just 12 months...
100s of communities engaged
50 new evidence banks now track and evaluate performance
100s of engagements deliver greater insight
1000s of people now making a real difference to service delivery
1000s of people empowered to influence decisions
Latest News
38K views per month and growing – Croydon shows how
From now till the end of 2016, PMNet will be holding a number of ‘Show & Tell’ sessions to share examples of success and good practice when it comes to engaging and connecting with service users and stakeholders.
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From now till the end of 2016, PMNet will be holding a number of ‘Show & Tell’ sessions to share examples of success and good practice when it comes to engaging and connecting with service users and stakeholders.
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Growth and reach of @It’s yourWales is all about passion
Community involvement and the sharing of great Welsh inspiration and passion has all helped community engagement architects It’syourWales build exceptional reach across Wales and its communities.
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Community involvement and the sharing of great Welsh inspiration and passion has all helped community engagement architects It’syourWales build exceptional reach across Wales and its communities.
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Together Aberdeenshire - Young People Speak Out
Introduction of a highly effective, efficient and appropriate method of engaging with young people. The platform and solution, Together Aberdeenshire, is now ‘tried, tested and well received’ by both service users and service providers.
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Introduction of a highly effective, efficient and appropriate method of engaging with young people. The platform and solution, Together Aberdeenshire, is now ‘tried, tested and well received’ by both service users and service providers.
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Your Voice Wrexham – Going for Engagement Gold as a Public Sector Board!
As a finalist at the GO Awards for Wales to be held this October in Cardiff, Wrexham’s collaborative stance in engaging with communities as a PSB ticks all the collaborative boxes..
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As a finalist at the GO Awards for Wales to be held this October in Cardiff, Wrexham’s collaborative stance in engaging with communities as a PSB ticks all the collaborative boxes..
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Young People Speak Out
‘My Voice’ engagement with children and young people has been commended by the Care Inspectorate in Scotland.
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‘My Voice’ engagement with children and young people has been commended by the Care Inspectorate in Scotland.
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Engaging communities at Croydon
Katie Edland of Croydon Council recently rewarded for delivering the Get Involved system with immense dedication.
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Katie Edland of Croydon Council recently rewarded for delivering the Get Involved system with immense dedication.
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PMN Hailed as Good Practice by Welsh Government
People Matters Network’s People Matters Network’s community engagement platforms (Together) have recently been hailed as good practice by the Welsh Government in a paper produced by their Children, Young People and Families department.
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People Matters Network’s People Matters Network’s community engagement platforms (Together) have recently been hailed as good practice by the Welsh Government in a paper produced by their Children, Young People and Families department.
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ItsYourNHS and Together Healthier
The platform exists to engage, inspire and empower those people who share a passion for the provision of great healthcare.
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The platform exists to engage, inspire and empower those people who share a passion for the provision of great healthcare.
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Launch of the new
PMNet site! Here you can find learn about and get involved in a number of innovative collaborations between a number of agencies and organisations across multiple sectors. Together... we can make the difference!
Creative Skillset partners with PMNet to integrate the Together™ suite into their existing website to encourage engagement between creative industries for mutual beneficial gains.
Cwm Taf Citizens' Panel is almost ready for launch! If you live in the Cwm Taf region and want to make a real difference to your local community, visit the Cwm Taf Engagement Hub to find out more.
Together with Patient Opinion and over 500 patients and carers, PMNet can reveal how GPs, dentists, hospitals and pharmacists are getting engagement right
How does it work?
The Together™ solution
Engage and empower communities, gather fresh insight and build evidence for better decision-making. It's all part of the Together™ solution.
Make the difference... Together
Engage and empower communities, gather fresh insight and build evidence for better decision-making. It's all part of the Together™ solution.
Make the difference... Together
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For a closer look at the tools available please visit Together.Solutions.
Collaborative WorkSpace
Collaborative WorkSpace is the engine room of PMNet's Together solution. It is where you will find everything you need to work smarter, make your life easier, minimise replication and save time, effort and money.
Your space in a shared collaborative environment.
Collaborative WorkSpace is the engine room of PMNet's Together solution. It is where you will find everything you need to work smarter, make your life easier, minimise replication and save time, effort and money.
Your space in a shared collaborative environment.
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Engagement Hubs
Show people how they can connect, how they can influence, and how together they can make a positive difference. Use multiple channels to engage and empower your community.
The go-to place where communities connect
... its users, its stakeholders ...
Show people how they can connect, how they can influence, and how together they can make a positive difference. Use multiple channels to engage and empower your community.
The go-to place where communities connect
... its users, its stakeholders ...
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Communities of Influence
Connect people with shared interests and needs, engage and empower people, and through greater participation, realise the collective value and impact of a Community of Influence.
Communities connected through shared passion and shared intent.
Connect people with shared interests and needs, engage and empower people, and through greater participation, realise the collective value and impact of a Community of Influence.
Communities connected through shared passion and shared intent.
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Points for Participation
With PfP, recognise a contribution, however small, however large, and demonstrate the value placed on the individual and the importance placed on their opinions and views.
Everyone recognised. Every contribution appreciated.
With PfP, recognise a contribution, however small, however large, and demonstrate the value placed on the individual and the importance placed on their opinions and views.
Everyone recognised. Every contribution appreciated.
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Tea-Break Debates and Insight
Run debates, surveys, polls, groups, forums and recognise the busy lives people lead and take full advantage of the flexibility provided by PMNet's multiple channels for gathering insight, sharing evidence and making decisions, all within a collaborative environment.
Multiple-channel engagement and shared insight for maximum impact.
Run debates, surveys, polls, groups, forums and recognise the busy lives people lead and take full advantage of the flexibility provided by PMNet's multiple channels for gathering insight, sharing evidence and making decisions, all within a collaborative environment.
Multiple-channel engagement and shared insight for maximum impact.
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Where?
WITHIN HEALTHCARE
FOR INNOVATION
FOR SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ACROSS LOCAL GOVERNMENT
WITHIN NEIGHBOURHOODS
MULTI-AGENCY WORKING
WITHIN BUSINESS
WITHIN EDUCATION
Who?
It’"syourWales
A community of influence
A community of influence
It"s your Wales is all about achieving growth and success for Wales through the engagement and empowerment of people and their communities.
Launching spring 2017
BirminghamWeAre
A community of influence
A community of influence
A successful city is one that listens and responds to the needs of its many communities. At BirminghamWeAre, we engage with people, we are inspired by people and we want success for them, for their communities and for the city.
Launching spring 2017
It’sYourNHS
A community of influence
A community of influence
It’syourNHS gives people who care about the delivery of great healthcare far more opportunity to contribute to and participate in the successful provision of services nationally, regionally and locally.
Launching spring 2017
Aberdeenshire
Young people speak out
Young people speak out
A totally secure platform for children in care to engage with social workers in a friendly and highly personalised environment. The system has been praised by Scottish inspectors for including young people in its design, build and implementation.
Please visit Connect for more details
Croydon
Community engagement
Community engagement
The site allows users to look around for consultations, surveys, events etc using searches such as what is going on in your area, which council services you are interested in or the outcome from a past consultation.
Please visit https://getinvolved.croydon.gov.uk
Glasgow Council
Community engagement
Community engagement
Glasgow City Council is committed to listening to the views of its residents and stakeholders in order to ensure it delivers services of a high quality that are relevant to local needs.
Please visit https://www.glasgowconsult.co.uk
Cwm Taf Hub
Engagement and empowerment
Engagement and empowerment
The Cwm Taf Community Engagement Hub exists to provide those who work, live or deliver services across Merthyr Tydfil and RCT with the opportunity to have their say about local services.
Please visit www.cwmtafhub.com
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Consultation portal
Consultation portal
At Royal Borough of Greenwich, public facing engagement and consultation is totally integrated within the Council"s website saving considerable time and money.
Please visit https://consultations.royalgreenwich.gov.uk
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Community engagement
Community engagement
Vital Messages is where people who live in Kensington and Chelsea can voice their opinions. Here they can find out what consultations the Council is currently undertaking or has planned, and obtain details on how they can get involved.
Please visit https://www.consultation.rbkc.gov.uk
Gateshead Council
Stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder engagement
By actively engaging its stakeholders, Gateshead Council continues to take full advantage of PMNet"s Together suite of tools to collaborate on all research and engagement activity, saving itself and its partners both time and money.
Please visit https://consultation.gateshead.gov.uk
Southend-on-Sea
Community engagement
Community engagement
Community engagement and empowerment at Southend-on-Sea is about working with local people to come to joint decisions, guided by local priorities and a shared sense of what matters locally. At Southend, communities, councillors and partners all work together to achieve shared outcomes.
Please visit https://consult.southend.gov.uk
Wrexham
Community engagement
Community engagement
Your Voice - Wrexham provides those working, living, receiving or delivering services in the county with an opportunity to have their say and influence local services.
Please visit http://www.yourvoicewrexham.net/
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Jonathan together with...
Application Architects
Developers & Programmers
Web Designers
Digital Experts
Social Researchers
Application Architects
Developers & Programmers
Web Designers
Digital Experts
Social Researchers
Where it all started...
People Matters Network was started by Jonathan Bostock in 2012 following his 25 years at market and social researchers BMG (Bostock Marketing Group).
Ever since he first launched BMG, Jonathan's real passion and interest has been in the engagement and empowerment of communities. Jonathan has always been fascinated by what exactly empowers people to connect and stay connected. What is their common bond? Couldn't this be used far more effectively by providers of services and products?
During his time at BMG, Jonathan became aware of just how much time, energy and money was being spend by organisations on gathering fresh insight and replenishing huge banks of existing evidence.
Significant efficiencies and huge savings could clearly be made.
Surely, people could be empowered to share and exchange their opinions, particularly if they knew their views would be taken seriously and result in better services, better products and better facilities for themselves, their family, and their friends. In a nutshell, people could become real 'communities of influence'. Imagine the savings, imagine the efficiencies, and imagine the returns.
Couldn't greater gains also be made if the providers and commissioners of services were prepared to work together? Rather than feeling uncomfortable about sharing information, why not make collaboration the norm.
And so, PMNet was launched
After 25 years, Jonathan left BMG and set up People Matters Network (PMNet)
By bringing together people from a research and engagement background with those skilled in digital marketing, developing software, designing websites and building applications - the offer from PMNet is focussed on delivery and outcomes.
At PMNet, our focus is on ensuring that what we produce is what will be used. Yes, it is largely about keeping pace with change, but it's also recognising that people are different, with some slower to adopt and adapt than others.
New applications must function in new environments on the latest technology of choice, and both new and traditional channels of engagement must work effectively together.
Connect with Jonathan
Email
m: 07432 637322
T: 0121 410 5520
People Matters Network was started by Jonathan Bostock in 2012 following his 25 years at market and social researchers BMG (Bostock Marketing Group).
Ever since he first launched BMG, Jonathan's real passion and interest has been in the engagement and empowerment of communities. Jonathan has always been fascinated by what exactly empowers people to connect and stay connected. What is their common bond? Couldn't this be used far more effectively by providers of services and products?
During his time at BMG, Jonathan became aware of just how much time, energy and money was being spend by organisations on gathering fresh insight and replenishing huge banks of existing evidence.
Significant efficiencies and huge savings could clearly be made.
Surely, people could be empowered to share and exchange their opinions, particularly if they knew their views would be taken seriously and result in better services, better products and better facilities for themselves, their family, and their friends. In a nutshell, people could become real 'communities of influence'. Imagine the savings, imagine the efficiencies, and imagine the returns.
Couldn't greater gains also be made if the providers and commissioners of services were prepared to work together? Rather than feeling uncomfortable about sharing information, why not make collaboration the norm.
And so, PMNet was launched
After 25 years, Jonathan left BMG and set up People Matters Network (PMNet)
By bringing together people from a research and engagement background with those skilled in digital marketing, developing software, designing websites and building applications - the offer from PMNet is focussed on delivery and outcomes.
At PMNet, our focus is on ensuring that what we produce is what will be used. Yes, it is largely about keeping pace with change, but it's also recognising that people are different, with some slower to adopt and adapt than others.
New applications must function in new environments on the latest technology of choice, and both new and traditional channels of engagement must work effectively together.
Connect with Jonathan
m: 07432 637322
T: 0121 410 5520