Hi Everyone,
After 20 years at Oxfam (how did that happen?), it’s finally time to move on. I’m leaving at the end of this month. Dexit is dawning – had to happen some time, I guess.
What’s next? As befits my advanced years, I’ll be doing a few consultancies like the one I’ve just got back from in Papua New Guinea, and will be spending more time at the LSE, where there are lots of requests to expand our training work on influencing and advocacy, along the lines of the Global Executive Leadership Initiative I’ve been running there, with Tom Kirk. Let me know if you want to join the fun. But the most exciting/scariest prospect is looking after my first grandchild, who arrived just before Christmas. She’s gorgeous – just have to prise her away from her parents…..
The future of FP2P: tell us what you think
But enough about me, what about the blog? Clearly it – and my role in it — will be changing and we need to work out how. So over the coming days, weeks and months (hey, this is Oxfam remember), we’ll be consulting with readers about the future of the blog (lots of ideas kicking around already). By all means get stuck in now with suggestions in comments, but we’ll be putting up a proper survey to canvass your views in a day or two – please take a few minutes then to help shape what comes next.
Meanwhile, FP2P still welcomes your contributions. Please send them to Amit Srivastava in the Policy & Practice team at asrivastava2@oxfam.org.uk, who will be helping me to post content in this transitional phase.
The end of an era after 15 years running FP2P
After 15 years of blogging and curating FP2P as an Oxfam staffer, this does mark the end of an era for me. So expect a flurry of activity over the next few weeks: final musings on how things have panned out over the last two decades, plus guest posters trying to squeeze in one final blog before I head off into the sunset.
To kick off that process, a few random stats about the blog:
- 3,357 posts to date (I reckon that means at least 4 million words – definitely monkeys and typewriters territory)
- 16,236 comments (for the mathematically challenged, that’s an average of 5 per post)
- Reader numbers are complicated by Google Analytics moving the goalposts, but in the past 7 years, 2,147,000 people (‘unique visitors’) have visited on one or more occasions. Since the blog began in 2008 there have been: 6,710,200 visits (not sure these numbers add up, but that’s GA for you).
- Busiest year (unsurprisingly) Covid Year One (2020) with everyone stuck at home and a little help from Bobi Wine
Meanwhile, If you want to stay in touch with me, best to switch to d.j.green@lse.ac.uk. Despite the enshittification of twitter, I’ll keep tweeting on @fp2p, at least til something better emerges. And there’s always good old LinkedIn. I’ll keep updating the pick of my outpourings on my website.
Look out for more on the blog in the very near future. But for now, I’ll leave you with Vinnie Jones (click on expand if WordPress mangles the frame).