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) [...]

Sometimes when we’re trying to learn a new technique or a new subject – a video tutorial – watching how an expert does it can be more powerful than web or print ‘how to’ articles. Video tutorials offer a great way to concisely convey a lot of information that might otherwise take hours of writing [...]

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 [...]

Abilitynet’s latest “State of the e-nation” report says social networking websites  – like Yahoo, Youtube, Facebook, MySpace and Bebo – are either difficult or impossible for disabled people to use.  In many cases users were not even able to register with websites. Facebook is described as “a professional looking exterior belies a range of accessibility [...]

The Web Office 101 or How to streamline your digital life or everything you ever wanted to ask about web office tools but didn’t dare ask….. Thanks to Laura Whitehead, Paul Henderson of Ruralnet and John Kenyon for making this session fun and interactive with examples of the web office tools they use. What: Web-based [...]

From the UK Riders email list:- “What happens when you get a bunch of hackers and social innovators together, give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them? We’re going to find out in London between 4th-6th April 2008 when Social Innovation Camp will bring together some of the best [...]

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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In the previous post we highlighted a study which suggested that misconceptions amongst managers are perceived to be holding back the adoption of web 2.0 technologies. Web 2.0 – or social media as some call it – is a second generation of web based services and communities. As we’ve said before, the key to adopting [...]

Released today, Web 2.0 – More than Social Networking, is a research study conducted by Bournemouth University that looks at current levels of web 2.0 adoption and understanding among UK businesses.   The study suggests that misconception amongst managers is slowing down the adoption of web 2.0 or social media tools.   almost half of [...]

Anne Stevens of Channel 4 New Media has written an excellent introduction to the world of new media.  Read the article now on the Knowledgebase.