- Amy’s here to get Netsquared up and running here in the UK
October 15th, 2008
Amy Sample Ward who works with NetSquared helping non-profits get the most out of technology, is setting up Net Tuesdays in London, bringing together social changemakers of all kinds to discuss social media with the first one starting on November 4th. I hope that we can see lots of Net Tuesdays springing up across [...]
- In the Pink 2008
October 1st, 2008
Regular readers will have noted a drastic colour change today on my blog.
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From politicians, to the public, to the press, it is a time when focus on breast cancer is at its very highest across the world.
Pink is the colour during Breast Cancer Awareness Month hence the new look to [...]
- Breaking down the barriers between disabled users and the social web – Scripting Enabled
September 29th, 2008
“Nobody likes to think of themselves as disabled – lots of people ignore content aimed at disabled people because they want to use what everybody is using” – one of the quotes from the conference day at Scripting Enabled.
I recently attended Scripting Enabled, which was a two day event held in London on 19th and [...]
- Blog Action Day on October 15th – have you signed up yet?
August 15th, 2008
Last year, over twenty thousand bloggers participated in the first annual Blog Action Day. Blog Action Day is an event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. Last year [...]
- It’s a wrap!
June 3rd, 2008
Photo – Alexandra Samuel from Social Signal, in the Bringing Your Community to Life (with lots of fun chocolate to encourage participation!) session.
Last week over 300 people came together for the NetSquared Conference in Santa Clara, California. This years conference was all about the N2Y3 Netsquared Mashup Challenge where 21 projects competed for cash prizes [...]
- Ideas and innovators for social change needed
February 20th, 2008
NetSquared Mashup Challenge
Over on the other side of the pond, NetSquared is inviting you to take part in the Mashup Challenge. If you have an idea which can make a real difference to create social change with your unique mashup, you could also have an opportunity to win cash prizes and attend the NetSquared [...]
- Women Who Tech – a TeleSummit for Women in Technology
February 12th, 2008
Any woman with a telephone who works in technology at a non-profit, a political campaign or is interested in technology is invited to participate in this free, live event on March 31, 2008 from 11 am to 6.15 pm EST. (We’re five hours behind here in the UK, so equates to to 6 am – [...]
- Social media workshop update
February 12th, 2008
Back in January, I asked readers of this blog, and others on my many other social networks what we should include on the session on social media that myself, David Wilcox and Nick Booth (along with the participation of others too!) could present to Circuit Riders at the forthcoming UK Conference for Circuit Riders being [...]