Archive for July, 2007

VoiceThread - a great new tool for pictures and voices

Beth Kanter has come up trumps again on her blog and discovery of tools that can help non-profits and others tell their story. VoiceThread is an online tool which you can use for a variety of purposes and is free and enables a slideshow with voice and sound too. It's amazingly simple to use, and can involve wide participation which makes it so great.

In my circuit rider role, over the last few weeks, I've had an increasing number of requests from people looking to do the following: make a tutorial for their volunteers; find a creative way to let others know the work of their organisation, but not wanting to keep up with the maintenance of a blog; provide something real and live for potential funders and supporters to show the work they do, and also a group of young people wanting to collate their knowledge and share a project they've been working on together. VoiceThread may be able to help.

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Posted on July 7th, 2007 | Posted in: Nptech, Social Media, Tech.
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Finally using an RSS reader

Well, practice what you preach. Hmm...taken me a little while on this one. As an information addict who looks at lots of sites and blogs regularly, it was time to pull all my feeds into one place. I'd been using Thunderbird for some, and live bookmarks for others, so it was high time to get my house in order as it were.
So, this morning I spent a while having a play with quite a few options to choose from. Bloglines, which I've used a bit in the past, Google reader and others too.

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Posted on July 6th, 2007 | Posted in: Tech.
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Top Telly - Damon and Jamie’s Excellent Adventure

I couldn't have been more surprised and overwhelmed with joy the other evening when settling to watch abit of late night telly and flicked over to BBC1 just in time for the fabulous Imagine documentary with Alan Yentob with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett as they embark on their new creative endevour for the opera Monkey, Journey to the West which showed in Manchester this week.

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Posted on July 6th, 2007 | Posted in: Music, Personal.
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