August 2006

Social bookmarking – a decent tool at last

I never could understand the attraction of using deli.cio.us (annoying name too) to ‘organise’ your bookmarks or favourite sites. Sharing them with others only makes sense if you can annotate what you’ve found, otherwise it’s just a long list to wade through all over again. So I like what Diigo …

For the latest developments and resources for voluntary organisations

Social enterprise around the world

Clare Mulvany, from Dublin, is travelling around the globe for 10 months interviewing ‘people who change the world’ as social entrepreneurs. See her blog at Exceptional Lives.

A network for kitchen table charities

It’s not as though there aren’t probably too many charity networks or support bodies out there already, but on OpenCharityBlog I’ve followed up a comment on The Observer’s pages asking about a network for kitchen table heroines’. Cristina Odone highlights in a short piece today the work done ‘around the …

Charity round the kitchen table

‘Kitchen table charities’ get a quick explanation in a short comment piece in The Observer: How to be a kitchen table heroine. Via the Guardian’s Comment is Free pages, one reader says “If you know of anyone setting up a network for kitchen table heroines then let me know!” We’d …

Trustees DO have a personal stake in their charity

I seem to be almost agreeing with the opinion pieces emanating from Luke FitzHerbert at Directory of Social Change these days, unlike when I worked alongside him there. In this week’s Third Sector, he asks how the sector can justify its tax breaks, when “too often” charities operate like businesses …

The next generation of volunteers

Welcome to my first ever blog posting! With a partner who loves computers almost as much as he loves me, I have been exposed to the techie bloggers for some time now. At the moment I volunteer for a local (Worcester) community centre, but it wasn’t actually that easy to …