- Turning a complicated plan into plain english
January 21st, 2009
Find local government consultations and plans hard to understand? Read how a group of bloggers have innovated by turning the Big City Plan for Birmingham into plain English so that residents can easily understand, feedback and comment on the plan. Head over to Parboo’s weblog to read Talking about the Big City Plan…
- Social Innovation Camp video
January 19th, 2009
The 2nd Social Innovation Camp took place in December. Head over to the site to see a 15 minute round up video of the event, meet the people who took part and see the evolving ideas that were developed to help with social change and to help make a difference.
- Nonprofits on the net for Blog Action Day
October 15th, 2008
Today is Blog Action Day – a day where thousands of bloggers across the world commit to write on the same topic with the aim of creating awareness around that issue. The topic this year is Poverty.
I work with a wide range of organisations on their communications, branding and websites. When working together on [...]
- Social Reporting Makes it to the Mainstream
October 13th, 2008
Integration of social media reporting working alongside mainstream media, with Reuters hosting an event with the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown discussing the current economic crisis. Christian Payne and Mike Atherton were given unprecedented access to the event and asked to utilise social media apps in order to facilitate conversations around the day. Qik, Twitter, [...]
- Information Overload? My name is Laura and I confess, I’m an addict.
October 8th, 2008
Information overload is one area of my work that is a constant. In the past recent weeks, I took some time away from the desk and computer with a pencil and big sheet of paper in hand. I hadn’t intended on blogging about it, but a recent message on one of my social networks [...]
- 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 [...]
- Video on how blogging has changed Glenda’s life
September 29th, 2008
Glenda Watson Hyatt, who lives with cerebral palsy, shares a video on how blogging with WordPress has enabled her to be heard by the world, increase her circle of friends and more. View it on her blog at Do It By Myself, or you can use the Easy YouTube viewer to watch the video.
- 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 [...]
- Using social media (Ning) to manage a social project
August 21st, 2008
Not from a nonprofit as such, but this interesting article gives an insight on how Ning was used as a project management tool and how it was used in such as way, that the CEO became the facilitator, rather than the more usual barrier for speed and safety. Read the upbeat article at Using social [...]
- AdWords-Style Widget Recommends Related Ways to Take Action
August 21st, 2008
Social Actions has launched a widget that recommends to readers of your blog or website related ways to take action.
The widget automatically identifies the keywords on any page and lists social change campaigns related to the stuff you’re writing about. These campaigns are gathered from social action platforms like Kiva, DonorsChoose, Change.org, GlobalGiving, Care2, Idealist.org, [...]