London Regional ICT Champion

Want to make your organisation strong, successful and sustainable? Collaboration can do it! But how do you make it happen? How do you get people together to discuss meeting shared needs? And how do you turn that talk into action? NCVO is hosting a one-day workshop that promises to show you how to create and [...]

Twitter starts with a deceptively simple concept “What are you doing now?” Answer on your phone, IM or right here on the web!” According to Twitter’s own blurb, “Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter to [...]

Last week I finished off an expanded version of the ‘Great Web Office Experiment’ article for the ICT Hub Knowledgebase – which talks about practical reasons for using web tools to collaborate with colleagues and the tools you could use to do this, even replacing desktop applications. To recap, some of the benefits of using [...]

One of the themes of this blog has been to talk about the potential to use ICT for collaboration between voluntary sector organisations and their stakeholders. Two new reports from NCVO’s Collorative working Unit (NCVO is a partner of the ICT Hub) expand on this and aim to inspire organisations to see collaboration as a [...]

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 stumbled across an interesting post on screen sharing on Robin Good’s site. The Robin Good site really functions like an aggregator of new technologies for those interested in the business of marketing and promotion. Don’t be put off by it – as we’ve said before on this site, it’s those organisations which understand and [...]