The relationship between technological and social change - 3s4.org.uk

Interesting post from NCVO Third Sector Foresight.  Does technology control change or just influence it?

http://www.3s4.org.uk/news/the-relationship-between-technological-and-social-change

Mobile Broadband: It’s not just about speed - NevilleHobson.com

Interesting post by Neville on this topic, with some comments from me as well

Podcasting in Plain English

Another excellent video from the folks at Commoncraft - you can watch it here http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting

Social Media Release Template, version 1.5

The Social Media press release has had an update, you can download a copy of the new version here and read the full post about it here

Get your free Social Media guide here…

From David Wilcox’s The Membership Project blog, here’s a free guide to Social Media produced by Paul Caplan and The Media Trust

http://commonspace.org.uk/blog/david-wilcox/free-social-media-guide-charabanc

Well worth the read…

Sir Tim Berners-Lee talks about the Semantic Web

The Nodalities blog has a podcast interview with Sir Tim about his view of where the Semantic Web is up to - Nodalities interview, there’s also a transcript available

For friends of Mr Nancy…

If, like me, you’re a Neil Gaiman fan, then (if you haven’t already) hop over to his journal site and vote for which book of his you would like to see as a free download on the web http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/02/birthday-thing.html

There’s also an interview with him about this on the BBC Pods and Blogs site that you can download http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/pods/pods_20080213-1446.mp3

If you haven’t, you might also like to check out Mirrormask

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The impact of new technologies on the VCS - free seminar report

New report from NCVO Third Sector Foresight on how new technologies are changing the way organisations behave.

http://www.3s4.org.uk/news/the-impact-of-new-technologies-on-the-vcs-free-seminar-report

Mobilise your blog

MoFuse, the mobile service that converts your website into a mobile site, has new feature called MoFuse Grow, which lets you convert your blog into a mobile blog. You can see a preview of the mobile version of this blog here http://ggd3ck.mofuse.mobi/ , or the real thing by entering the URL into your mobile’s browser.

A bit more geekiness…

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