Monthly Archives: January 2006

Reason Why – Open Charity Blog

Posted on January 31, 2006 | Comments Off

If you are wondering about the relevance of blogging to charities, community groups etc, then take a look at the linked article, from the Co-CEO of Girls For A Change, “a non-profit organization that’s empowering girls to create social change”. OK it’s American, and the front page of the actual blog takes half a minute to load on 2 Meg connection, but there are some ideas here (and the linked page should load quite fast!).

Why Non-profits Should Blog.

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Social firms in Scotland

Posted on January 30, 2006 | Comments Off

An interesting piece about social firms – social enterprises where at least 25% of workers are disabled or have health problems – in today’s (Scottish) Herald:

New spirit of social enterprise – The Herald

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Posted in Frontline Action, Scotland

How Technology Helps Nonprofits

Posted on January 30, 2006 | Comments Off

A 3 year research project into how IT can make an impact on the effectiveness of charities has been announced in the States:

Nonprofits Research the Effects of Technology Assistance :: PNNOnline ::
“We know technology has the potential to dramatically increase what nonprofits are able to accomplish,” said NPower Executive Director Scott Schaffer. “This project is a way to put some actual measurements behind the qualitative evidence we’ve seen…”

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Posted in IT and Internet

Blogs in community e-learning

Posted on January 28, 2006 | Comments Off

A ‘new’ sector blog to add to the list shortly:

SCVS (Swansea Council For Voluntary Service) WEBLOGS PILOT
a project to evaluate the use(s) of weblogs in learning, e-learning and, in our case, community development.

Running for 6 months from Sept 05, so take a look quick!

And here’s another involved in the pilot: Torfaen

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Posted in IT and Internet, Sector Developments

Author info

Posted on January 28, 2006 | 2 Comments

UPDATED ITEM: Information entered under ‘About yourself’ when registering will now appear on the appropriate Author page. There’s no option to add a pic there, but you can upload one in a posting if you want.
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I haven’t found an easy way to create a page per author to give some personal background, pic etc., if wanted. So I’m posting an item here!

Find out more about me on VolResource Credits page.

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Applied webtech for nonprofits

Posted on January 27, 2006 | Comments Off

Net squared, a newish American set up billed as ‘remixing the web for social change’ is beginning to have some interesting stuff on its blog. Here’s what I’ve just picked up:

  • The first time I’ve seen anything sector related on flickr, the photo sharing/tagging website: International NGOs.
  • The ability to create mini-charts of how often words have appeared in blogs recently. Here’s an attempt at a link to ‘social enterprise‘ – below – it ought to refresh automatically.
  • And a blog from a real frontline charity worker which has been going for a while: Urban Sprouts School Gardens, in San Francisco. is a project getting the youngsters involved in growing food.

Posts that contain Social Enterprise per day for the last 30 days.
Technorati Chart
Get your own chart!

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Posted in Frontline Action, IT and Internet, Taxonomy and Search