London Regional ICT Champion

LIVE BLOG READ FROM THE BOTTOM-UP: And just because you can..doesn’t mean you should. It’s all about the story. And talking of stories, we close with the story of tonight, a live podcast put together on the spot by Mark. And then it’s “Goodnight Vienna” from me, hope you enjoyed the live blogcast. Nick Aldridge [...]

Tags: sounddelivery, Web 2.0

According to a new survey “Folksonomy”, “blog”, “webinar” and “social network” are amongst the words mostly likely to make people ‘wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard’ That’s the verdict according to a survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Lulu Blooker Prize which asked 2,091 adults to vote for [...]

Whilst we’ve not always been very keen on the web 2.0 hype, we at ICT Champ Towers believe the underlying functionality of web 2.0 has real benefits for voluntary and community sector organisations (VCOs) willing to embrace it – such as community colloboration, widening social inclusion, being able to tell your story to a wider [...]

“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 [...]

There’s nothing like a story-telling to get one’s message across, and video is one of the most accessible medium’s for getting the message across quickly and effectively to stakeholders and funders. Why video? With the advent of Youtube and other internet video sites, organisations can now get their message out relatively inexpensively, not just to [...]

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 [...]

In part 2 of the series, we look at getting started with online documents, spreadsheets and presentation tools. The tools reviewed here offer users great potential for cost savings, collaborating and sharing work with colleagues. What are these tools and why use them? The online document writers and sheetsheets reviewed here – Google, ThinkFree and [...]

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 [...]