Category Archives: Frontline Action

I’ve set up a new Links category, for examples of web sites from voluntary organisations which make use of open source Content Management Systems. That’s web server software which makes it easy to keep content up-to-date without any technical knowledge. Blogs like WordPress could be seen as a very basic type of Open Source CMS, but we’re thinking more of Drupal, Mambo/Joomla or Plone. (This week I went to a really good seminar on these run by Open Advantage in Birmingham – organisations in the West Midlands region should check them and/or MOST out.)

So far, only American examples found but hopefully British ones to follow.

Another imaginative use of ‘new media’ technology:

BBC NEWS | Technology | Podcasts reach Peruvian villages

UK charity Practical Action has married old and new technology to podcast twice-monthly [agricultural] updates to eight information centres in the Cajamarca region [of Peru].

An interesting example fo e-learning on information management:

“The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management.”

More such imaginative uses of the web, please!

Link sourced from APC Newsletter – see APC News . Readers may also be interested in Wireless Networking in the Developing World – not theory but learning from experience.

A fairly obvious use of the new Google Video facility. As ITN videos are on there, I’ll assume its easily available this side of the pond.

From npMarketing Blog:
Google Video Experiment

“….. asking if we could host a video they could use to recruit more event participants… after thinking about what services we could provide them internally, we decided to try an experiment…

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=leukemia

I think we’re going to do more of this… and I’m not sure that Google Video shouldn’t be utilized even more by non-profits – it’s cheaper and way easier than trying to host video ourselves – and it gives us a chance to reach a much wider audience who might have never found us…”

Learn More about Google Video.