This post from Gartner Research is well worth a good read for anyone interested in large organisations and social media.
Gartner predicts the execution of many government processes in human services, tax and revenue, health care and education will involve individuals who are neither employees nor contractors. Examples include replacement of some human services functions such [...]

That’s one of the questions asked on the site of a new programme being launched in Birmingham on November 7th.  The full question on Heard and not Seen is
I want to ask, “Do Muslims have a sense of humour?”.
I ask as the media portrays them in a negative way; extremism, fundamentalism etc etc. Where do [...]

Above Marc Reeves sums up why The Birmingham Post must change. After 150 years as a broadsheet, he told tonight’s launch party that nothing this radical has yet happened to the paper. The loss of the Saturday edition and the change to stapled tabloid size are the the most visible changes, but to my mind [...]

One entrant from Filmdash.  Might interest anyone who does community based stuff.

Simon Berry’s patient yet relentless campaign to persuade Coca Cola to use its distribution network to trasnsporrt re-hydration salts is explained in this elegant short video.
Here it is, the 30 sec video to support the ColaLife submission to Googgle’s Project 10100 (10 to the 100th). Please go and look at it on YouTube. It’s a [...]

Useful blog action day reminder of the orgs that can move mountains to alleviate poverty.

I was enormously proud of all the people who turned up today to help voluntary groups in Birmingham better understand the power of the social web.  I’ll revise this tomorrow but just want to pop up some links before stopping for the day….

http://gerimoshers.wordpress.com/  is the new experimental blog of one visitor who will use it [...]

American accent – unh!