- Article on making videos more accessible on blogs
February 26th, 2008
Problogger guest writer Stephen Hopson helps to champion accessibility in making video posts accessible to the deaf community with a step by step guide to adding subtitles to a video post. Check out the insightful article and the interesting reader comments and conversation at Problogger – How to Make Your Video Posts More Accessible.
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- 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 [...]
- The big picture – a site with great participation potential
January 22nd, 2008
I don’t usually write about my favourite websites, or websites that I think can really create ownership and participation with a big audience, but just yesterday a new website was launched that really deserves a mention.
The Big Picture is a project to create the biggest photo album in the West Midlands. Everyone can add their [...]
- Getting the most from social media for nonprofits: what would you recommend?
January 12th, 2008
The forthcoming Circuit Rider conference for ICT support and development workers here in the UK is being held at the end of February (see the conference page at Lasa’s website for further details). I’ll be delivering a session on Web 2.0 and social media for the nonprofit sector, along with David Wilcox of Desigining [...]
- Free screenreader software to assist the blind and visually impaired
November 19th, 2007
Over on David Wilcox’s Designing for Civil Society site, David recently reported about Roger Wilson-Hinds, who was demonstrating screenreader software at the e-democracy conference. The screenreader (known as ‘Thunder’) not only reads text out loud, but also can increase the text size for those that can see. It also helps with managing information, [...]
- Accessibility 2.0: UK newspaper websites featured in study
November 19th, 2007
Today, I was contacted by Laura Oliver who writes for Journalism.co.uk – a leading website for journalists.
Laura informed me that their site is launching a series of features and articles that will be published throughout this week on the accessibility of the UK’s main newspaper websites to blind and visually impaired users. They’ve [...]
- Snack Attack
November 4th, 2007
The Media Snacker Respect meme started by Jerimiah Owyang is now at my blog courtesy of Beth Kanter who tagged me. I’m not the biggest fan of meme’s but this one did make me stop and think as it’s made me aware of our shift into how we’re using social media tools to get [...]
- Netsquared coming to the UK
October 30th, 2007
A new UK initiative for web-enabled social innovation began last week with a discussion to set up Netsquared in the UK, loosely based on the US Netsquared conference and community, which has now led to a host of meetups and other activities through which tecchies and activists find common cause and do good stuff for [...]
- Using Twitter for conferences and consultation
October 30th, 2007
I first met Tim Davies, whilst completing the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge and also on Twitter. He regularly writes about his work in young people’s participation, non-profit technology and social change on his blog site.
Whilst completing the challenge, and connecting with other new friends also doing the challenge tasks, I learn’t [...]
- Will organisations use Facebook here in the UK?
October 29th, 2007
Newspapers and radio seem to be covering the growth of Facebook almost daily, the social utility networking tool which enables you to connect with friends and join in with interest groups.
How many voluntary and community organisations here in the UK are using Facebook as a tool to connect and share good practice with [...]