We all know how perfectionism can paralyse. I suspect it can be more damaging for large voluntary organisations than smaller ones. David Brazeal writes about this as it relates to organisations and social media:
When you’re printing 5,000 slick handouts, it makes sense to write, and share with colleagues, and rewrite, and proofread, and rewrite [...]

Not to a group in Small Heath in Birmingham. Clean Medina says that Muslim neighbourhoods in the city are far too messy and they want to change that. So they’ve launched a “struggle’ against rubbish and waste, and whilst they’re [...]

 

 Jihad on Litter [6:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Wonderful new by-product of TED

Pangeaday is a non-profit project to get people telling stories on film and sharing them.  In 241 days the most compelling films will be showcased at events in major cities across the globe.

Laura Whitehead and John Buckley first alerted me to this free, international, podcasting, “unconference” being held in Birmingham at the beginning of September.  Here’s the blurb – and please let me know if you’re coming:
In case you haven’t yet heard PodCamp UK is a FREE two-day event bringing all the excitement and ideas and energy [...]

A few weeks late with this but I just want to share with you the work of a group of year Nine Students at Frankley High in Birmingham.

I’ve been working for Stan’s Cafe and Birmingham Creative Partnerships, with musician Mathew Beckett, to develop podcasting skills in infant and senior school students and staff [...]

 

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Mikko Kapanen and Shauna Magunda are two students at UCE in Birmingham who used their final year project to experiment with podcasting to tell the stories of refugees in the city. This programme talks to them about how and why they did it and also hears excerpts from some of [...]

 

 Refucast on the Grassroots Channel [18:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is our second podcast from Change in Progress, a gathering of UK based neighbourhood activists in Birmingham. This time Adam Askew from Oxfam UK tells us about the ten steps which can help you improve your public speaking, get your message across and manage those nerves.

If you’re looking for other [...]

 

 Oxfam expertise in public speaking from the Grassroots Channel podcast [5:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

More proof that citizens journalism is finding it’s feet here in the West Midlands comes with  the campaign to protect Black Patch Park in Sandwell. Simon Baddeley has written about the park for the independent website The Stirrer, keeps this wiki page up to date and now adds this to youtube:

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