CharityBlog goes Storify
Rounding up social media content for a voluntary sector audience using Storify – the posts linked below are more or less daily. For old open blogging posts (to 2009) see Old CharityBlog link. Also see the About page.
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MS Research Charity Fan Page on Facebook
MS Research has launched a Fan Page on Facebook in the non-profit category. Choose the category carefully: first click on institution then non-profit. Charities in the UK cannot yet use the Causes application for secure donations but there is always a way around this and I am very happy to …
New design and same dedication as ever!
The website of the charity has a new layout, a new design and some new volunteers. The need for help is as poignant as ever. Reports of dramatic falls in charitable giving are overblown; volunteering should not be depleted as time and commitment are two things that are needed. That …
What’s going on here then?
We’ve put off updating the web program running CharityBlog for about as long as we can. The next version has some significant changes in how categories are managed, which could be fun, and means that the design templates need updating too. Apologies for any weirdness you encounter in the next …
100 UK groups close in on Big Green Challenge £1m
The time has come to announce the 100-strong shortlist of UK groups competing to earn a share of the million-pound Big Green Challenge prize fund. The big green ideas shortlisted range from a ‘Carbon Watchers’ club to monitor CO2 emissions in Yorkshire and a Sussex prison’s bio-fuels production scheme, to …
Handcrafted information from Malvern
I included an item in this week’s VolResource email newsletter on the government’s ‘Power of Information Task Force’ before I had a chance to read the speech from minister Tom Watson. This amuses me for a number of reasons. Firstly the effort that has gone in to giving web links …