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 22, 2008	Good Gossip
I’ve long been interested in the positive power of gossip to strengthen networks and share social mores .  The report “ Communications: some lessons from the New Deal for Communities programme ” concludes that: The development of positive word of mouth networks...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Sep 11, 2008	Searching Hansard should be part of the citizenship curriculum.
Emma Mulqueeny writes that Hansard is cool: What is Hansard? Hansard is the edited verbatim report of proceedings in both Houses. Daily Debates are published on this website the next working day at 8am. Find out more about Hansard Why is it cool? Because, as Robert...... [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:  Aug 30, 2008	RSA Education Charter on learning and creativity.
Very occasionally I write a post for Thriving (my hat tip for this one), I’m a school governor and also a Fellow of the RSA .  The 250 year old organisation for ideas and social action is just opening its first school in Tipton in the Black Country . As I’ve written before I...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 28, 2008	Passion not scale….
Publish, then filter; Passion, not scale – these should be stapled onto the walls of anyone interested in creating value – public or commercial – on the internet. And they should be in the DNA of anyone commissioning for 4iP. Matt Locke of Channel 4’s 4iP on what he...... [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]