I’m only just catching up on FreePint, the newsletter for information professionals, from the last few months. Here’s an area of interest from November: “Knowledge management for development: an international organisation’s perspective”.
FreePint Newsletter 195 – Knowledge and Extremes.
Also see VolResource page on Knowledge Management.
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The information and advice website www.adviceguide.org.uk, run by national charity Citizens Advice, has won the voluntary sector/intermediary category of the e-Government National Awards 2005.
See Public Technology.net article: Citizens Advice scoops top award for website used by half a million a month.
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Welcome to the new incarnation of our blog – previously VolResource Blog. And apologies to the half dozen of you who’ve been reading it since the autumn, as we’ve now moved twice in a month! But a spare slot on our new server and an appropriate web address was too good to miss. Plus we get to play with the newly released version 2 of WordPress, the open source software we’re using.
A good way to start posting to a website entitled CharityBlog is to question their worth. Well, not really. The following leader article in today’s Society Guardian is headed
SocietyGuardian.co.uk Charities are not the answer to everything, and I pretty much go along with the views put by Malcom Dean. Read it for yourself.
One quote: “The most prominent theme pushed by the Tories since the start of the year – voluntary organisations – should be an ideal issue for debate.”
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We’re still tidying some of the styling, getting our hair washed and creating a warm and open environment. But as usual for VolResource projects we can’t wait to get it out there and see what happens.
This blog is ‘open’ to anyone involved in charities, community groups, voluntary organisations and the like to talk about anything about making things happen, or stopping them from going wrong. It’s not a place to promote fundraising events, volunteer opportunities or ask for donations, although we’re not going to censor the passing mention.
You just need to register (pick a user name, add an email address, wait for your password to arrive in your inbox.) We’ll have a quick check of first postings to stop spammers, but otherwise its up to you.
Update: Test ‘podcast’ has been removed – too boring!
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The Telegraph reports on the potential impact on donors of major charities as deficits and new rules on staff pension schemes hit.
Telegraph | Money | Charities say donors fear gifts are propping up funds
Charities are concerned that their pension deficits are deterring donors because they are soaking up a growing proportion of the funds raised for good causes.
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Blogs, social enterprise and the health service – an interesting combination. Not quite the same as most blogs, and maybe not quite the same as most social enterprises, but an imaginative use of the concepts anyway.
Kable.net reports:
Patient Opinion has been set up to provide an independent outlet for patients to share views, experiences, complaints and messages of thanks to NHS staff. It is being run on a not-for-profit basis and is free at the point of use.
Users enter opinions into a weblog while a built-in social tagging system operates in the background interpreting simple language, such as the word “bones”, into medical terminology.
More: Kable – Blogging patient opinions – 20 January 2006
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