The Top 50 Digital Power Players in #ukhousing

2014

During May , Paul Taylor and Shirley Ayres asked people with an interest in the housing sector to nominate people they regarded as digital influencers.

As well as votes we took into consideration influence measures PeerIndex and Klout and also online contributions through blogs and campaigns.

This is a list celebrating the diversity of people with an interest in housing who are using social media to connect , inspire and challenge.

This represents the new world of housing associations.

50

Steve Hilditch

The first of our bloggers – keeping the flag flying for the Housing

Left

49

Tony

Stacey

One of the first Housing CEOs to embrace Social Media

PlaceShaper

48

Jarrod

Williams

The face behind the social media nerve centre at Bromford

47

Kate

Davies

Blogging on fashion Tweeting on Housing

At Notting Hill

46

Caroline

King

Effervescent and thoughtful communicator at Helena

Partnerships

45

Matthew

GardinerBlogging

CampaigningDisrupting

CEO Trafford Housing Trust

44

Ailin

MartinezEver enthusiastic

Tech for Social GoodDigital CampaignsSouth Yorkshire HA

43

Boris

Worrall

Making Orbit fit for the futureSurfer on and offline

42

Mick

KentFlamboyant Social Enthusiast

Culture Coach at BromfordNot a Cat

41

Keith EdwardsLead Tweeter CIH CymruInfluential campaigner

40

James Pargeter

The social face of Deloitte Real Estate

39

Vicky

BannisterCampaigning against payday

lendersNoted blogger on dementia

38

Rae

WatsonTPAS Marketer

Tenant ChampionAll round nice person

37

Vic

RaynerSocial Housing

Care Support

CEO at Sitra

36

Brett

Sadler

Eternal Optimist (for Google+)North Wales HA

35

Tim

Pinder

A lot of music tweetsAnd housing

CEO Peaks and Plains

34

Lara

Oyedele

Prolific housing tweeterEquality

And shoes

33

Tom

MurthaStill reckons he’s a Twitter Novice

Chair of HACTPlenty of opinions

32

Tim

Morton

Prolific tweeter and engagerSocial Consultant

31

Alex

Marsh

Overlord of Housing Bloggerati Knows his stuff

30

William

ShortallMost social Board Member in

HousingNeed more like him

29

Aileen

EvansPoliticsPolicy

PassionHousing

28

Nick

Horne

Head Honcho at Knightstone HARebelmouser

27

Joe

HalewoodAcerbic blogger and commentator

Agree or disagree: you can’t ignore

26

Kathleen

Kelly

Influential commentatorPolicy and Research at JRF

25

Colin

WilesBlogger

CommentatorQuestioner

24

Alison

InmanSHOUTing for Social Housing

Received a lot of Power Player votes

23

Kate

ReynoldsVeteran Housing bod (in Twitter

years)Comms and Engagement at

Sanctuary

22

Lisa

PickardSocially Savvy CEO

Backing Real Life Reform

21

Ben

BlackHyperlocal

Comms and PRLeading the Welsh Twitterati

20

Matt

LeachInnovator in Chief at HACT

Loves a HousePartyMakes data sound interesting

19

Nick

DuxburyInside Housing

Housing Finance Social Scribe

18

Thom

BartleyPushing #ukhousing fast forward

Nominated for blogs (and Yoyo skills)

TEDxer Bromforder

17

Andy

JohnsonDigital and Social Learning Leader

Promoting the Bromford DNA

16

Michala

RudmanNew Kid on the (Power Players)

Block storms Top 20 Won loads of votes for

@councilhomechat

15

Shaun

TymonRunning

Social Enterprise#SocialCEO at Yorkshire Coast

Homes

14

Jules

BirchWriter on social policy

Inside HousingInfluential and prolific blogger

13

Jayne

HilditchThames Valley HA Tech Titan

#housingcampLikes a To Do list

12

Dan

SleeOracle of #LocalGov Comms

@Comms2Point0Generous social sharer

11

Giles

PeakerNew Power Player entryMaking housing law sexy

Noted blogger

10

Hannah

FearnHighest placed Power Player

journoEx Inside Housing now Guardian

Instagrammer

9

Julia

UnwinInfluential CEO

Spearheads superb online presence of @theJRHT and

@JRF_UK

8

Tessy

BrittonA Power Players debut

Pushing boundaries of system redesign

7

Asif

ChoudryUber marketer and Comms guy

Keeps himself to himself

6

Immy

KaurSocial Innovator Hub Birmingham

Perma networkedCool profile pics

5

Anne

McCrossanSuper Connector and Social

Influencer#ConnectedHousingSocial Biz Supremo

Founder @VisceralBiz

4

Michelle

ReidEx TPAS now CEO Cynon Taf

Passionate advocate for tenant voice

Joined the Welsh Power Players invasion

3

Nick

AtkinPoster boy CEO for #SocialMediaCrown Prince of #powerplayers14

Driving digital leadership in #ukhousing

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2

John

PophamKing Power Player

Digital Inclusion and #SocMed Guru

People focused storytellerLots of trains

#housingstories#dogwalking

1

Helen

ReynoldsThe Peoples Queen of Power

PlayersSocial and PR expert

Digital leaderEveryone loves the original

Comms Hero

The People’s Choice Awards

These people were noted for significant achievements by their

peers.

Best

Blogger

A very close run contest with some fabulous blogging this year – but Colin Wiles is the people’s

choice for his consistently insightful and challenging posts.

Super Connector

From #ConnectedHousing to the provocative posts of

@VisceralBiz , Anne McCrossan has challenged the sector to think

much more broadly about the nature of social business.

Social Superstar England

There could be only one.

Nick Atkin has emerged as the most influential CEO in the sector

for the way he has embraced innovation and challenged the

status quo.

Social Superstar

WalesWales has developed so many

strong social voices it could have had its own list.

Brett Sadler emerged as the peoples choice for his

enthusiastic support for the power of social to connect people

and communities.

Rising StarThe beauty of online influence is that anyone can become a power

player.

Michala Rudman made a huge splash on social media this year and impressed a lot of people

with her involvement with @councilhomechat

Digital Innovation

Thames Valley Homes has emerged as a leader in the

development of user focused technology.

The development of MyTVH – the online portal for residents – has been part of an integrated digital transformation rather

than a digital bolt on.

Jayne has generously shared her learning from the project.

Communications InnovatorYou must have been on Mars if

you missed the @CommsHero bombardment.

Asif and the guys at Resource have proved consistently

inventive in their use of social media to enhance offline

campaigns.

Asif has shaken up the tired old world of housing comms – and it’s

unlikely to ever be the same again.

Social Media Campaign

In a year when housing finally woke up to the power of online campaigns the runaway winner was Adrian Capon for starting it

all – with #HousingDay

Digital Innovator

Under the stewardship of Matt , HACT has emerged as the Innovation ‘Think Tank’ of

#UKHousing.

The sector has finally begun to realise the power of data to reshape services and that’s

largely down to Matt.

He also capped the year off with HouseParty – a genuinely

disruptive event for Generation C.

Thanks to everyone who took part

We’ll be back next year with #powerplayers15

The Top 3 – John Popham , Helen Reynolds and Nick Atkin