About
About Laura
Laura Whitehead is a creative web and print designer specialising in the use of new and innovative technologies to further the development of effective communications for the nonprofit sector. She is passionate about participation, inclusion and accessibility for all. Working in the sector for over 15 years, Laura has also supported a wide range of organisations and communities with their knowledge and information development, and their collaborative partnership working.
About this blog
This journal, aims to provide a notebook of my thoughts and observations, findings on the net, sharing of good practice and is aimed at a wide audience from non-profit organisations and charities, to other designers and developers and myself.
My useful links page lists a wide assortment of links and resources for all, listing some of the sites I visit often, plus some useful tools that can help. Take a look!
If you like what you read, you can subscribe easily to my RSS feeds. If you are unsure about what RSS is, do take a look at my ‘What is RSS‘ page. As well as an explanation to RSS, I’ve included a short video produced by the excellent Commoncraft team so within minutes you’ll see just how easy it is to stay up to date with your favourite websites and blogs.
It’s easy to subscribe to the feeds from Laura’s Notebook. I have two feeds available:
RSS Text Feed, RSS Audio Feed, or you can Receive Updates by Email.
What does Popokatea mean?
This is a question I get asked lots. When originally deciding on a website name, the words ‘Whitehead’ or ‘Laura’ weren’t that inspiring to play with. I stumbled a real creative block with what name to choose. It’s easy being creative for others with suggestions for names and titles, but for my own site I spent many months trying to come up with names and concepts that would work typographically too. I needed another word for Whitehead. Being wildlife sort of people, and liking birds lots too, I discovered that there is a New Zealand bird known as Popokatea, the Whitehead. (Mohoua albicilla)
Not only a beautiful little bird, but also a beautiful word with great shapes for letters that flow and work together nicely. I like having a name that works so well with different fonts in different forms and still looks great!
All content on this blog is is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
See more about my work at my main website at www.popokatea.co.uk.
See Laura in action -
Coming Up Soon -
NCVO Information 2.0 Conference, London - 24th November 2008
'Ways to collaborate and share knowledge using social media tools'
Laura will be running two seminar sessions with Beth Kanter joining in via Skype and Amy Sample-Ward at the forthcoming NCVO national conference for information, knowledge and web producers and workers.
Could better knowledge sharing and closer communications inside your organisation create stronger relationships, efficiency, insight and effectiveness? In this workshop you will discover how the latest tools for online collaboration and sharing can offer opportunities to improve the way you work. Social Media tools such as wikis, social networking sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, using Tagging and RSS feeds can enable organisations of all sizes to best use and build on its existing collective wisdom and innovation.
Find out more and how to book at the NCVO Events page for the conference at - http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/events/latest/?id=10800.
