Blogs and articles by Craig Dean
After more than two centuries it is probably a good time to ask, ‘Is the Chamber of Commerce still relevant?’ Businessmen in the last decade of the 18th Century were hardly worried about developing an effective social media strategy, or obsessing how their website would look viewed on an iPad. How could a Chamber founded …
Last night I found myself at the Bolton Lads & Girls Club. I had been invited for a tour of the facility by Claire Crossfield who is part of the team building a new youth zone facility in the heart of Oldham. The local young people have been very involved in this new centre’s progress …
Craig Dean is the new Oldham President of Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Chief Executive of Web Applications UK. The Oldham business community is a dynamic, thriving and overwhelmingly positive group of people which is unquestionably surprising to ‘outsiders’ considering the ceaseless tirade of negative punditry that surrounds the prospects for our economy and …