Yesterday Beth Kanter tweeted this blog post asking for contributions to help a Cambodia orphan pay her fees and stay at University. She asked us the same question last year and within 24 hours Leng had the $1000 she needed for Leng to do a year. Within a few days enough had been raised [...]

Neil has written this fine blog post on the parrallels betwen his father in law’s first digital camera and introducing the social web in the work place
“Retreat. Slowly. And never completely. Digital cameras and digital media can make your life better and easier – but not at first. Initially they introduce a problem you didn’t [...]

The image above is some of the feedback from asking my friends on twitter how Groundwork might use the service.   The group I was working with were a little surprised (“wow”) by the speed and quality of the input from a network tool like this – so to Laura, Michael, Jon, Dave, Alice, Katie, [...]

This morning Terence Eden was walking through Waterloo Station when he was stopped and searched by the proactive anti terrorism unit. Part of a random search pattern. This film may be ten minutes long but it is worth watching.

With this being the summer and most of the folk I know (including my kids) on holiday I’m battling procrastination more than ever. The real question in my mind is should I work or should I no[sic].

Whilst trying to decide whether I should watch the Channel four programme on Castleford or pootle on the [...]

Steve Dale is pleased to report that the Office of the Third sector is to create online Communities of Practice to help Local Government and the Third Sector work together.
To support local authorities and their partners, OTS and IDeA will be establishing an on-line Community of Practice and linking with work of the [...]

Like Dave, Laura and Tom I’ve just signed up for October 15ths Blog Action Day. 2,000 or more blogs, one day to alleviate poverty – what can we do?

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At first I thought this was a bit too long but then realised it has a specific purpose. As the blurb says: “A short film produced for the Edgbaston Constituency on the subject of Post Office closures in the community. The film was designed [...]