London Regional ICT champion

Hola! Another day in non-profit ICT….
Knowledgebase:

Check out the latest articles on Mac OS X server, Microsoft licensing and telecom suppliers.

Long-live the web:

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect has admitted that the PC’s reign at the centre of the digital home and office is over.  According to PC Pro, here.

Security:

A new version of AVG’s free [...]

Today we focus on security and privacy news…
Web 2.0:

We all use many collaboration tools for work and home – blogs, wikis, calendars, photo sharing, tagging, etc – and now Groups has created a service that lets you run all of your group’s collaboration tools from one Grou.ps domain using a single login.  More here.

BT and [...]

It’s been at least a week since the last round-up of ICT goodies, so….
Internet:

British broadband customers are paying hundreds of pounds in hidden costs, according to a PC Pro news report

Web 2.0 and video:

Interested in instructional videos to get you started on that ICT project? Look no further than 5min, Howcast, Expert Village and Instructables.

Mobile [...]

A new report surveying the adoption of web 2.0 technologies by non-profit organisations found that “blogging was viewed as a sure, effective way to reach net citizenry”, whilst non-profits were “less optimistic about the prospects of social networking technologies to help raise significant monetary or goods donations for their organisation.”
The report also found non-profits [...]

Interesting stuff over at Tom Slee’s Whimsley, which dissects a new report from the Linux Foundation, documenting how the world’s biggest open source project has shifted during its 17 year life from a volunteer effort to the realm of mega-bucks corporate development.
According to the report, just 4 companies -Red Hat, Novell, IBM and Intel – [...]

Thanks to a brutal regime of monitoring and evaluation we’ve seen more punishment than Frank Bruno’s gum-shield (for those of you who remember the great man), but hey! We’re back with another round-up and then some longer stuf that might contain an opinion or two.
Events are in the air:

25th of April 2008 – Abilitynet’s “Accessibility [...]

Another bag of goodies for you…
UK news:

Third Sector reports on a web brokerage service that donates 30% of each client’s fee to the charity of their choice, here.
The Rural Community Carbon Network riffs on the importance of ICT to rural communities, here.
The Broadband Reach Project in Scotland is working with the Scottish Parliament due to [...]

We were delighted when this abstract piece from the NTC New Orleans arrived in our post last week. Thanks to Hilary Garner of Superhighways Partnership for the great art – keep ‘em coming, Hilary.

Capacitybuilders has today launched a new web resource for the nine new national support services – which started running today.
For those who’ve already lost the map to the promised land of Destination 2014, Improving Support increases the number of programmes from 6 national hubs to 9 national support services, all on a slimmer [...]

It’s 1 April and we couldn’t make it up…..
UK news:

Institute of Fundraising Technology Groups’ conference is at LVSC on 14 May.  See the programme here.
CharityComms has just launched a benchmarking survey to gain information on how the investment that their organisation makes in communications compares to other similar organisations.
BT has issued details of the first [...]