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 [...]

We are listening

Firstly to say hello to anyone now visiting this site either from the ICT Support section of the NAVCA website or the Capacitybuilders Improving Support website, also I guess if you are redirected from the old ICT Hub website which soon will be no more (get those publications from the old site while you still [...]

Golden Rules

Quick random thoughts about blogging on the train to work today.
My three golden rules to social networking / new media.
1, Publish RSS feeds to your blogs so that supporters know what you are doing and feel informed and included members in whatever cause you promote. With a constant bombardment of information this really is an [...]

Days, weeks, months …

Well I’ve done it!
Apart from the odd Twitter tweet and Facebook post to pass on Christmas and new year greetings I have had a two week break from anything ICT Hub related and indeed apart from swapping the PSU on my sons PC whilst back home from Uni, I haven’t really given ICT much thought. [...]

365 days later

It rather crept up on me without me realising, but today, after 365 days my blog has reached its first birthday.
Yes, I am a little surprised to have got to this point as many bloggers give up and at times finding both space to blog and subject material to blog about has been quite [...]

Together in Electric Dreams

Was going to call this post “All together now”, but remembered Steve at Hastings Voluntary Action has already used it, so its a classic Human League track instead.

Whatever the song title the sentiment is still the same. Today - October 15th on Blog Action Day all bloggers and [...]

Games with(out) frontiers

You may all remember the viral marketing games to raise awareness about climate change, saving water and third world aid that I blogged about last year - all good harmless fun and they pass a few minutes whilst you eat your organic sandwich and drink your Fairtrade Coffee (as an aside not, it would [...]

Chesterfield-under-Water

Very quickly have to share these Flickr shots with you. This amazes me about the power of new media, people are out there… capturing events as they unfold; in photos and in words on blogs… you just can’t help loving Web 2.
O.K. This won’t mean a lot to you, unless you are in the [...]

The Trammps ….

Monday - got an email from Louise at the hub about her new blog and was already to review it when in a bizarre way I felt compelled to look out of our office window to see this.
WOW - it was spectacular if a little sad and scary at times!
Full story and more pictures - [...]

Go West

Two posts in one day … who says you don’t get value for money.
Just a quick one between glasses of the red stuff to welcome Popokatea to my list of blogs that combine the two important elements that this is all about … ICT and the Voluntary Sector .. oh three elements they are looking [...]