Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched his own book, ‘Britain’s Everyday Heroes: The Making of the Good Society’, which tells the stories of 33 individuals whose commitment to a cause or campaign has inspired him. East London charity Community Links helped with the book and will receive the royalties. And …
Thanks to a post on the Globalab blog, we’ve ended up with a number of links to sites which I’ve grouped under ‘Social Change 2.0′. That’s discussing using the web, social networking and other ‘Web 2.0′ type things to promote social change. See the Links page, right at the bottom. …
Here’s one item I probably won’t try to include in the weekly email newsletter, as it would trigger too many spam alarms. From this week’s Computing magazine: Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) has had to change its email arrangements so that genuine communications covering such topics as HIV and AIDS, Vietnamese …
I really ought to get out and do various stuff in the garden, now that the sun is back in Malvern, but while I’m digesting my lunch ….. The RSS (news feed) aggregator we’ve been using over on VoluntaryNews has improved a lot now that that site has been upgraded …
Radio 4′s new series of ‘Analysis’ kicked off yesterday evening with a programme called Changing Charities where Professor Alison Wolf of King’s College London asked: “Have we found a third way which offers the best of both public and private? Or just created a threat to charities’ treasured ability to …
It’s good to see that the Institute of Fundraising has finally moved away from its old web site which completely ignored accessibility issues. Unfortunately its chosen back room engine, OneStop CMS, makes life a pain if your web browser is set to restrict cookies, continuously asking for a spurious username …
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