Seeing Collaboration

Bit of a light bulb moment on the train back from the South West ICT meeting in Exeter today.
It’s not that I’ve just discovered what collaboration is; I know effective progress, visible development and meeting your aims, your goals or whatever, comes through working collaboratively. If you don’t believe me Clay Shirky [...]

Intertwingled

Its the word of the weekend. Whether Joanna used it accidentally or if its used all the time in Birmingham circles I don’t know, however I thought it summed up perfectly the way Social Media / Web 2.0 is being used right now. Incedentally the very word has an interesting history - if you [...]

You’ve got to be in it to win it !

Firstly a note (to self for reference at NAVCA later) and to readers who are interested in this kind of thing.
Conversations in the ICT Hub Cafe kicked off by Paul Caplan have now developed through posts from both David Wilcox and Laura Whitehead into not just the original thoughts about appropriate use of the best Social Tools for [...]

Sperical Objects

There’s a lot around at the moment about the 9 themes that Capacitybuilders plan to fund next year, so I’ll not go over that ground, however…
What amused me today is on the ThirdSector website there are two boxes, one a link to a quote by Mark Waddington of War Child - “IT is without doubt [...]

31 days to a better blog - Day 26 and Day 27

I’ve combined Day 26 and Day 27 together, partly because I’ve missed a day over this holiday weekend but also because taking these two together at first glance they don’t seem 100% relevant to the non-profit tech / voluntary sector world. However after a good walk to give them some thought there are still [...]

Establishing a wiki - you don’t need a cream for it!

Susie is experimenting with her wiki over in Cambridge and there’s a wiki used by the regional champions and myself on pbwiki. Obviously we’re not the first people to discover the power of a wiki to collaboratively work on documents (no really we’re not!) but I do have a bit of thing for them - [...]

The wheels on the bus …

We’re off here tomorrow for a NAVCA staff away-day, one of the main things we are looking at is the Every Action Counts programme and how we can all play a greater part in looking after the world we live in. I try to do my bit… checking the “1″s and “2″s on the bottom [...]

It’s only rock and roll …. but I like it!

Just a brief post to let you know The Watford Gap has not gone away, i’m part way through a rather hectic couple of weeks of regional visits and attendance at Capacity Builders events - Nottingham, Taunton and York last week - Birmingham, Preston, Taunton (again!) and Durham next week.
What’s it all about ? Well [...]

On your marks …

Last week I mentioned the Olympic funding story. I’ve just been told an ICT provider I know in Lincolnshire has set-up an E-Petition campaigning to object to the way money could be used to meet the funding shortfall.
Please sign-up if you agree and if you agree strongly blog about the issue around the (out of [...]

… and the winner of the wooden spoon is …

Here’s a practical way collaboration could perhaps make a real difference in a practical way for the sector. If you need a reminder before this one slips too far down the “brain in-tray” check the original thread Susie started over on her blog.
NAVCA now have a strong viewpoint on this potential threat to funding and [...]