London Regional ICT champion

Published yesterday, Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report gives more details about how the government aims to provide universal access to a minimum 2Mb broadband connection. An estimated 2.75m homes, about 11% of UK households, today have no access to a connection at this speed. The report says 1.5m households might get access to next-generation broadband [...]

The ICT Hub has asked the Telephone Helplines Association (THA) to ensure that very small to medium VCOs are aware of telephony options and their ability to access free practical and strategic information and local sources of support and make better use of telephony within their organisation. THA would like to identify what telephony experience [...]

“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 – [...]

Thanks to Michele Martin for enlightening me to the wonderful world of ‘We Blog Cartoons‘  by Dave Walker .

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 [...]

Over the last few posts I’ve been talking about blogs, flickr, etc and how the voluntary sector might use this so-called Web 2.0 technology to get its message out to funders, supporters, people using its services and beyond. In his book, Flipping the Funnel, Seth Grodin, describes a  process whereby Web 2.0 tools might be [...]

A report from the US non-profit, Dot Organize, finds that over half of the 400 organisations they surveyed, report being frustrated or really struggling with the complexity of the technology they use. Watchers of voluntary sector ICT issues in the UK will no doubt be familiar with Dot Organize’s findings, since ICT problems tend to [...]

The Organizer’s Tool Crib is a participatory directory which allows people interested in organising communities to share, review and rate online tools and resources. The directory currently lists over 110 online tools, including users ratings on favourites like flickr, WordPress, Skype, HiveLive, and Drupal. Users can also add their own tags to categorise the various [...]

Back on the theme of new technology, we’ve heard of youth projects and sexual health projects using mobile phones to engage with young people. But mobile phones can also be used to mobilise support and raise awareness of issues your organisations campaigns for. See MobileActive, a global network of activists and campaigners using mobile phones [...]

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 [...]