Cllr Zoe Hopkins is urging us to stand up for Birmingham in a national competition.  Robin Pye who works in her Kingstanding ward has been shortlisted for the Council Worker of the Year Awards. You can watch Robin here and to find out how to vote for him please go here.

Scroll down and you can listen to David Wilcox talking about what I suspect is a unique experiment in producing an online open source collaborative tender for the £1.2 million Cabinet Office programme to create an Innovation Exchange for the Voluntary Sector. David explains the process with relevant links here , and you can [...]

 

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My friend Beth Kanter has just posted a request for help from a charity based in North Yorkshire and Nairobi.

Alison Lowndes is asking what she can do to attract more interest in the blog she co-writes about the situation of vulnerable children in Kenya. Nedra Weinrich and Celeste at the Studio501c have already chipped [...]

OK so a slightly dramatic headline as you can see from the smiling photo. This programme is one of those occasional episodes when we manage to bring an active citizen together with the politician who’s thwarted their efforts (you might like to listen to Albert Bore and Natalie Brade).

For four years Simon [...]

 

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Buried amongst all the material about Tony Blair standing down is something very close to us here in Balsall Heath. The Tory leader David Cameron has been writing on his own blog about spending two days in the neighbourhood.

It’s a place which has always made an impression on the man. He was here [...]

One way to make public money stretch a little further and grab and keep my attention. Hat tip New Music Strategies.

Our last podcast helped stir things up a bit. The Bishop of Birmingham’s intervention on behalf of Diversity Networks in Birmingham was reflected on the news site The Stirrer where supporters and critics of the networks also began to get to grips with some of the issues.

This time we have another podcast from [...]

 

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Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere by single access on command.
Edward O. Wilson. www.eol.org

Please make it very interactive, allow people to asks questions, answer them, post pictures, discuss argue explore together.  There’s certainly a demand for people to add information and media, see the comments on Youtube.

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