London Regional ICT Champion

This week saw NetSquared’s first London Net Tuesday Meetup – a gathering of non profit bloggers, techies, accidental techies and people wanting to know more about blogging – take a look at a head to head comparison of blogging platforms and blogging tips. Two things quickly emerged from the evening: Blogging platform of choice: (i) [...]

In previous posts I’ve been talking about video can help voluntary and community sector organisations get their message over – not just to their traditional stakeholders (service users and funders) – but also to a much wider audience who may be inspired to contribute in some small way, either through volunteering their time or donating [...]

I recently had the pleasure of meeting social media blogger Beth Kanter at the Circuit Rider conference in Birmingham, where we discovered a mutual interst in how to apply web 2.0 tools to the everyday tasks of non-profit organisations. The upshot of our dialogue was an interview on Beth’s blog, which you can read about [...]

I’ve been in correspondance with prolific non-profit/social change commentator and blogger, Beth Kanter, about the adoption of so called ‘web 2.0′ tools in the UK voluntary sector. The discussion came about as Beth and fellow blogger, David Wilcox, will be hosting a workshop on web 2.0 tools at the Lasa Circuit Rider Conference in Birmingam, [...]

I just love the power of blogs to take you on a journey of discovery. To illustrate this story and the growing power of blogs to make new and interesting links – rather like six degrees of separation, I’m going to take you through a recent lunchtime surf of the web that started with a [...]

Clearly the need for a ‘champion’ or ‘Buzz Director’ as Steve Bridger calls it, to promote technology to the community sector is one that many commentators – including David Wilcox, Nancy White and Beth Kanter (amongst others) – have been talking about. As Steve Bridger says: It’s a particular crusade of mine to encourage not-for-profits [...]

Since this project started, I’ve been evangelising blogs as tool for enabling voluntary sector organisations to communicate with their audience and each other. Whenever I’ve asked people about using a blog to promote their work to a wider audience, the reception I’ve got has usually been an expression of polite indifference. And then people start [...]

Advancements in new media now allow target audiences to be engaged in cost-effective and imaginative ways with demonstrably positive results. So why are so few charities making use of it? Read the full article at Charity Times.

Want to find out who else in the voluntary sector is blogging? Check out the excellent OpenCharityBlog for a list of charity or campaign blogs (’blogroll’) produced in in the UK, to raise awareness or cash, communicate with the public, volunteers or members.

Today I Cried! Read an IT managers experience of things in the USA non-profit sector. Their are times the London ICT Champion has been reduced to tears of howling frustration by technology, but on the whole we try to keep it positive and believe that technology hasn’t peaked with the sandwich toaster. One of the [...]