Practice what you preach

Came up to London today to meet Jane Robbins from the CLG Digital Inclusion team (you must watch the video on the wiki BTW!). Lots to talk about, particularly on overcoming barriers to use of technology by individuals and groups. What stops groups using technology … is it fear, cost, change, scale, confusing terminology - [...]

Ahem ! Mash ahead.

Not even an excuse about being too busy to blog …. either a lack of motivation, nothing happening to blog about or laziness ! Actually I’ll stick with the ‘busyness’ excuse !
Not sure if this will be of interest to some people or if you already know about these, but there are people who like [...]

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 [...]

What are you doing?

Twitter says “What are you doing?” ….. Singing its praises.
Like a lot of relationships mine with Twitter has been a bit on and off over the past 9 months or so.
I was going to ponder on an elaborate post - but that’s not what the New Web is all about - blogging is about capturing [...]

Good News !

Couple of connected posts this week - which will probably only be of interest either anyone with a passing interest in Third Sector ICT (will we be officially moving to call it “Civil Society”?) or to anyone thinking “where is that “*****” Mr Webster when they keep getting my voice mail or out of [...]

Not a paintbrush in sight

The ICT Hub tour rolls on…. Part 1 for this week will follow later. First of all Part 2.
Wednesday and its Birmingham, “A Wider Embrace“, or ICT and Voluntary Arts Organisations.
OK - what is different about ICT for arts organisations to ICT for any other type of organisation … Robin Simpson (CEO Voluntary Arts Network) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dad in a Hoodie! Not.

I was in a meeting in Hull this afternoon with Colin Harrison (Yorkshire & Humber ICT champion) when I mentioned that an event, a funding source or an relevant topic for the sector only needed to be briefly mentioned and it would be up on Colin’s blog before the end of the day! The blog [...]

New releases

Just a couple of new releases and new discoveries to share with you today.
Nick Blundell (one of the team at Illuminate ICT) has made the release candidate version of SmartBOX 1.0.
SmartBOX is completely open source easy-to-install, easy-to-manage resilient, minimal hardware specification, and feature rich network server, with an emphasis on ease of use by non-technical [...]