Sector social networking

The social networking site Facebook appears to be flavour of the month (see today’s Networker article in The Observer for instance). However, it also has some possibilities.

I was prompted to join by David Wilcox (Designing for Civil Society) and have located a number of relevant groups with a presence. They’re not all bursting with activity, yet, but with Facebook’s origin in higher education there’s a range of student volunteering groups for instance which could make future developments interesting.

Not exactly the first way to get campaigning groups together online (e.g. see BBC’s Action Network) but perhaps once which could attract more than the usual suspects. We’ll be updating the VolResource campaigning resources page soon!

OK, now to check if the ‘Share with Facebook’ button works (only active on CharityBlog’s author pages at present).