Skimming the current (April) issue of NCVO’s Voluntary Sector magazine, which has a focus on Campaigning, I was intrigued by a quote: “Many people forget that campaigning is a relatively new discipline. We need to foster credibility and legitimacy.” This is from Chris Stalker, who is to head up NCVO’s …
I have just come across the eCampaigning Forum, an annual event since 2002. They describe it as an ‘eActivism Practitioners Community’ …aiming to share expertise, explore where eCampaigning is going, strengthen the eCampaigning community and increase our capacity to use new media to stimulate change. There is a wiki for …
A couple of charity IT items in recent issues of Computing magazine: Oracle donates database to UK Muslim charity. As part of a training project for a team of three graduate trainees …. they tailored the database to help analyse the nature of calls to the Muslim Youth Helpline charity, …
The branding survey being run for the new youth volunteering charity following on from the Russell Commision is clearly after under 25s, and doesn’t warrant a mention on VoluntaryNews. But some readers may be interested in the weird and wonderful questions. I gave up at the first page of ‘real’ …
From web usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, looking at the latest web hype, an interesting suggestion in passing: “Now, if only someone would make a Wiki solution with great usability that average people could use to author strongly interlinked hypertexts. That would be something worth almost any level of hype. …
UshopUgive, seemingly the biggest and most successful site offering charity commissions via online shops, which included some big names, has announced its closure. While VolResource doesn’t generally ‘do’ fundraising, this does raise a question mark over the viability of this way of raising income. See The Charity Blogger: Stop being …
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