Yesterday’s conference (21st February, London) on Voluntary Sector Databases was an interesting event. Independently organised it sold out and has a waiting list for a repeat event (due in May). At the start of the event I was wondering why it was so popular, given that databases have been growing …
Net squared, a newish American set up billed as ‘remixing the web for social change’ is beginning to have some interesting stuff on its blog. Here’s what I’ve just picked up: The first time I’ve seen anything sector related on flickr, the photo sharing/tagging website: International NGOs. The ability to …
VolResource is experimenting with a wiki to develop information resources for the sector – for later transfer to the main site probably, or around an event. An example of the latter just set up is one on Databases for the voluntary sector. This is intended to contribute to a conference …
We’re experimenting with turning some VolResource pages into ‘wiki’ format, where people can make their own contributions. (We’ll be keeping the old stuff too for the moment at least!) We’ve transferred a couple of pages to start with, which might particularly benefit from outside input (there has been some already …
From PublicTechnology.net Dorset For You, the pioneering online portal launched by five local councils this February to replace individual council websites, has adopted taxonomy-based technology from APR Smartlogik to boost information ‘findability’ through the site and make it even easier for citizens to access the information they need quickly and …
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