The archives of my blog contain notes, articles and ramblings on design, social media, non-profit technology and just a bit about my life. You can find the most recent entries on the home page.
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How to use the date archives: You can click on the Month title to bring up the summaries and details of all articles throughout the month, or look through the list of articles posted in each month. You can click on individual titles to take you directly to the full article.
- 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- Download podcasts and transcripts from Accessibility 2.0
- AdWords-Style Widget Recommends Related Ways to Take Action
- A video tour of accessibility
- What happens when an organisation chooses not to engage?
- Using social media (Ning) to manage a social project
- Designing the Online Newsroom
- Deafness and the User Experience
- Blog Action Day on October 15th - have you signed up yet?
- Silverback - new usability testing software
- Scripting Enabled
- LowBrowse - helping make the web a better place for those with vision loss
- Stand up and be counted: The Survey, 2008
- Building a Collaborative Workplace
- Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom
- Common Craft: Podcasting in Plain English
- CSS Naked Day
- Building Community Around Your Blog
- Google for Non-Profits
- Twitter in plain english from Common Craft
- Visualising information for advocacy: An introduction to information design
- Web Office 101
- Effective technology advising with John Kenyon
- Circuit Rider 4.0 Conference Round Up
- Article on making videos more accessible on blogs
- Photo Dropper plugin - finds Flickr Creative Commons images within Wordpress
- 40 web based online tools for design
- Politics 2.0 co.uk
- Search engine optimisation for novice nonprofits
- Join the pack! The Nonprofit Twitterpack
- Ideas and innovators for social change needed
- Women Who Tech - a TeleSummit for Women in Technology
- Social media workshop update
- NTEN's Love Your Techie Day!
- 21 Days of Wiki Adoption
- Latest tools from Google
- Remember accessibilty when using widgets on your website
- Google releases it's Social Graph API
- The big picture - a site with great participation potential
- The basics of data portability
- Using social media to meet others before an event
- Using images in fundraising
- Getting the most from social media for nonprofits: what would you recommend?
- Circuit Riders Conference: 28th and 29th February
- Get the picture
- Should your organisation use social networking sites?
- Common errors with web accessibility
- Lessons Learned: Nonprofits and Social Media
- Organisations learning how to get a presence on Facebook
- Free screenreader software to assist the blind and visually impaired
- Accessibility 2.0: UK newspaper websites featured in study
- Consultation on accessible government websites
- MODx, the most promising CMS of the year!
- sNews - an easy and simple web publishing tool for non profit organisations
- Snack Attack
- Will organisations use Facebook here in the UK?
- Using Twitter for conferences and consultation
- Netsquared coming to the UK
- Wired Fundraising - technology making fundraising 'good to go'
- How our information and knowledge management has evolved
- Women working in non-profit technology - are we visible?
- New resource to help use the media to find your volunteers
- Video's of assistive technology in use
- My Environment - Blog Action Day
- Bristol Wireless technology travels far...
- Free tools to test your site for accessibility
- Choosing and Using Free and Open Source Software - new guide available
- Success with the law on accessible websites
- Free Burma!
- A different and free way to make a website - use a wiki
- In the pink!
- Let your readers be in control: Text resizing
- Google Presentations
- CommonCraft's latest - Google Docs in Plain English
- Are we nearly there yet? Charities versus Technology
- Nominations for IT Volunteer Awards open
- Modx makes it to finals - vote for it to win!
- Suffering from RSS overload?
- Online Giving and Fundraising Moving Foward
- 31 Days to a Better Blog: The final days
- Working towards a new world of Interoperability and Accessibility? It's not here yet...
- Podcamp is coming to the UK!
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 21: Make a reader famous!
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 22: Getting new readers up to speed, and a special welcome
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 20: Run a reader survey
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 19: Respond to comments on your blog
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 18: Create a sneeze page
- Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
- Helvetica the film, available to pre-order
- Grantmaking 2.0
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 16: Create a heatmap of where readers click on your blog
- Adding an Audio Feed
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 15: Stickify your blog!
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 14: Analyse your blogs competition
- Staying Creative and Motivated
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 12 & 13, and an update on progress...
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 11: Dig into your Site Statistics
- Resources on blogs, social networks and tags for non-profits
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 10: Declutter your sidebar
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 9: Advertising on your site...how can this work for non-profits?
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 8: Comment on a New Blog
- Check out Jing!
- Social Bookmarking in plain english
- Fixing the web
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 7: Plan a schedule for the week ahead
- Twitter and Facebook, will they change the way we connect and communicate?
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 6: Email an 'Old Time' Reader
- Latest from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange
- Some useful links for usable websites, blogs and contented readers
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 5: Audit your 'About' page
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 4: Interlink your posts
- Fascination with fonts in an unlikely place
- Easy ways to learn and understand GIMP
- My Latest Gadget!
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 3: Search for and join forums. How can non-profits preserve their image?
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 2 continued...
- 31 Days to a Better Blog - Days 1 & 2
- Link to Podnosh about a podcasting project with young people.
- Beth needs your help in getting to Cambodia!
- Vote for Modx
- Toolbox of 100 open source resources and templates
- Webcredible article on improving accessibility for motor impaired users
- 50 of the best with the Helvetica font
- Getting YouTube code to validate (updated)
- Oli - the pop star!
- HBO's amazing new multimedia project
- iPhones and mobile media
- VoiceThread - a great new tool for pictures and voices
- Finally using an RSS reader
- Top Telly - Damon and Jamie's Excellent Adventure
- Basebox launched - tools for non-profits
- A taste that took me back to being a kid again
- Free CSS and XHTML courses
- Article on Google Analytics
- Moving it over to Wordpress...
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Subject Archive
Click on a category to see summaries and details of all the posts in that category.
- Accessibility (27)
- BB31Days (21)
- Blog Action Day (2)
- Events (5)
- Foss (12)
- Free Burma (1)
- Frustration (2)
- Fun (9)
- Mac (2)
- Multimedia (7)
- Music (1)
- n2y3 (2)
- n2y3con (2)
- Nptech (87)
- On the web (44)
- Participation (23)
- Personal (23)
- Side Notes (54)
- Social Media (61)
- Tech (6)
- Typography (3)
- UKriders (14)
- Web (7)
- Web design (26)
About the archives
Welcome to the archive for Laura's Notebook, an online journal on design, social media and non-profit technology. Have a look around.

