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Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008

  Who’s coming to the Birmingham Social Media Surgery, BAD08

I thought is was time to take stock, not least to ensure sufficient tea and coffee for the social media surgery which us Birmingham bloggy folk are organising (with BVSC ) to support voluntary and community groups in the city on Blog Action Day . If you want to know how social media...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008

  Blog Action Day in Birmingham - a social media surgery for voluntary orgs.

Over here Jon Bounds has reminded us of our collective Birmingham blogger wish to mark Blog Action day next week in some shared way.  When Tom Watson asked us about this a while back there was plenty of enthusiastic muttering. The theme for blog action day 2008 is poverty,...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008

  Global Giving in the uk.

blank” href=”http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/”> donatetograssrootsprojects;education,health,microfinance.jpg” /> I’m late with this but want to mention it anyway. The really imaginative US programme Global Giving is now operating in the UK through...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 28, 2008

  The new UK Council for Child Internet Safety.

I’m got real concerns about this (see the bottom of the post). According to this news release it will: • establish a comprehensive public information and awareness and child internet safety campaign across Government and industry including a ‘one-stop shop’ on child internet...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 27, 2008

  This is a no brainer for the UK.

Free Debates is an important democratic movement. They are demanding that a condition of a network getting to screen presidential debates is that they make the material available with open source/creative commons licensing, so it can be rehashed and mashed etc. It is a great idea...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 27, 2008

  Do you Strip?

If you want to people on side and working together, less is always more. Tom Steinberg knows that. He runs MySociety , the very successful charity which punches above it weight using the internet to help people collaborate to improve civil society.  Among tips on how to build...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 4, 2008

  Social Enterprise trains rats to detect mines and you can adopt one.

The social enterprise behind Hero rats has just won a £500,000 Skoll Foundation grant to develop its work using rats to sniff out threats to humans from landmines to disease. You can adopt one of the little critters for 5 euros a month.  Christmas present? Read more here and hat tip...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 2, 2008

  Google Reader explained by Commoncraft.

I think it was Antonio who once gave me the helpful feed reader analogy of it being like sending your dog to the front door to see if the paper has arrived yet rather than constantly trudging there yourself.  Commoncraft have a crack at their own explanation. Hattip Tony Molloy . ...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Aug 26, 2008

  Clay Shirky on the future of Drupal and the Semantic web.

From here : With Drupal version 7, due later this year, Buytaert hopes to include technologies that will make sites running Drupal part of the Semantic Web, Tim ­Berners-­Lee’s vision for making online data understandable to machines as well as people. If Drupal hosts a website...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Aug 24, 2008

  CarrotMob or Save the environment by drinking beer.

There are different ways to tackle climate change. In the last month I’ve written about the focussed and globally ambitious cquestrate . Now recent Birmingham Blogger Jonathan Melhuish (and also here ) who’s relocated to London tells me you can also do it by drinking beer. ...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008

  Groundwork UK, twitter and how about a map for funding applications?

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 ,...... [view]

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