SmartBOX – new release candidate of network server package for VCOs

October 30, 2007 in COMMUNITY, FOSS, NPTECHUK

SmartBOX is an easy-to-install, easy-to-manage, resilient, and feature-rich network server with an emphasis on ease of use and data security and with minimal hardware requirements. The design of this system is entirely based upon research into the voluntary and community organization (VCO) sector by team members of the Illuminate ICT project.
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New UK initiative for web-enabled social innovation starts in the pub

October 30, 2007 in COMMUNITY, SOCIAL MEDIA

Interesting post in David Wilcox’s Designing for Civil Society blog
http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/2007/10/new-uk-initiati.html?cid=87724394#comment-87724394
You can track the use of the new proposed nptechuk and net2uk tags in del.icio.us by getting RSS feeds of them, like so;
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/net2uk
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/nptechuk

This is just the beginning of social networking for professionals…

October 22, 2007 in SOCIAL MEDIA

Interesting post from Ross Dawson’s Trends in the Living Networks blog - http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007/10/this_is_just_th.html
Will organisations now start to recognise the value of social networks to their business?
Goto http://www.stopblocking.org for more on this topic

NCVO Third Sector Foresight

October 22, 2007 in COMMUNITY, NPTECHUK, SOCIAL MEDIA

NCVO Third Sector Foresight helps voluntary and community organisations create effective plans with strategic insight and planning tools.  There’s an interesting post on how access to the internet is one of the strategic policy drivers for organisations http://www.3s4.org.uk/drivers/access-to-the-internet

Forward Blog – Social Media in Action at DELL

October 20, 2007 in SOCIAL MEDIA

The Forward Blog has a very interesting podcast of Paul Young talking with the Dell Digital Media team about their Direct To Dell blog and their ‘crowdsourcing’ initiative Ideastorm.
http://www.forward-moving.com/blog/2007/10/15/forward-podcast-33-social-media-in-action-at-dell/

Second Life for the Voluntary and Community Sector

October 19, 2007 in COMMUNITY, SOCIAL MEDIA

Here’s an interesting article from the ICT Hub about how VCS organisations might use Second Life
 http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/secondlife 

Vintage film at You Tube on amateur radio

October 15, 2007 in RADIO

 
Looking for a bit of nostalgia about amateur radio? You Tube has a vintage film from 1939, known as Radio Hams, a Pete Smith Speciality at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGIdf0VjQ4

Micro Persuasion – Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master

October 15, 2007 in SOCIAL MEDIA

Excellent list from Steve Rubel
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/10/essential-bookm.html

More than Half of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older

October 12, 2007 in SOCIAL MEDIA

comScore Media Metrix, a leader in digital media measurement, has released an analysis of the users of leading social networking sites, revealing that significant age differences exist between the user bases of these sites. http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1019

Media Conversations

October 12, 2007 in MEDIA

This last week, the Conversation Network launched a new channel: Media Conversations. The new channel, like IT Conversations and Social Innovations Conversations, produces high quality audio shows from a variety of sources.
http://mc.conversationsnetwork.org/