London Regional ICT Champion

With the UK economy in recession and further substantial cuts to public funds looming,  the government’s forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR 2010) is set to make grim reading for the non-profit sector.  To survive the cuts,  non-profit organisations need to take advantage of new media to tell their story to funders and elevate themselves above [...]

Stevenage CVS is the bedrock of the local non-profit sector, and provides a range of community services across the borough and the county. This is my presentation from their AGM on 8 July on why non-profit organisations need to be telling their stories and showing funders the difference their make to our lives if they [...]

Following on from last week’s gig for NAVCA at Reading, I was asked to make available my presentation on “ICT doing more with less” In hard economic times, it can be easy for organisations to cut back on ICT, particularly with maintenance support and training.  These are false economies – ICT underpins service delivery, and [...]

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) [...]

Lasa’s Ian Goodman reports from Idealware and Aspiration’s Managing NonProfit Technology Projects (MNTP) conference. Last week I attended the Managing NonProfit Technology Projects (MNTP) conference in New York, USA. Despite some confusion (mainly on my part) on some of the language used – the conference was an excellent opportunity to learn and share ideas. I [...]

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“The Internet changed everything. It changed commerce, communication, education and information management.” Mark Benioff, Salesforce On this blog, we’ve previously talked about web 2.0 or software as a service – the ability to run web based services like Ebay, Amazon or Google Mail with nothing more than a computer and a broadband Internet connection – [...]

Podcasting is a great way of communicating stories to your audience – whether they be clients, service users, funders or casual listeners. Podcasting is also quick, inexpensive and with a little practice can be done by anyone. In this article, we give a brief tour of podcasting, what it is, why your organisation should adopt [...]

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 [...]

From Monday 5 February I’ll be launching the ‘Web Office” experiment a 2 week trial of web 2.0 tools. Inspired by IT Redux’s Office 2.0 and the Dot Organize ‘Organizer’s Toolcrib’ of online tools, the aim is to find out just how easy or hard it is to apply online tools to my everyday tasks. [...]

ESRC: ICT, social capital and voluntary action The Economic & Social Research Council’s ‘ICT, Social Capital and Voluntary Action’ (download PDF – 1.6Mb) report contends that ignoring the Internet is no longer an option for voluntary and community organisations. It warns that those failing to embrace information and communications technology (ICT) risk having their work [...]