Mumbai’s Citizen Twitter Reports

The current events in Mumbai where gunmen mounted coordinated attacks in the city have been reported by Twitter ‘correspondents’ on the ground.
See NowPublic – Crowd Powered Media’s Mumbai’s Citizens Report from users of the micro-blogging system, including an early analysis of how Twitter has been used.
Fuller reports on the unfolding events are available from the [...]

FREE USB memory sticks for teachers initiative

Memory4Teachers is a major new ICT initiative taking place within the UK education sector.
The project has been developed, in association with LEAs and Teacher Unions, to support teachers and educators in addressing their ever-increasing workloads by funding the provision of 750,000 USB memory sticks across the UK.
Find out more via Memory4Teachers

OpenOffice 3.0 released

OpenOffice is the free open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. And it certainly gives that corporate giant a run for its money; in fact Microsoft has responded by reducing the costs of its own suite with student versions now available for £70-£80.
OpenOffice has Writer its wordprocessor, Calc spreadsheet, Draw graphics editor, Impress for presentations, Base databse [...]

UK Community Awards for ‘Social Technology’

25 Innovative Projects up for  The UK Catalyst Awards: Short List
and the winners are….. here!

“We believe social media can be used to tackle current social challenges, from knife crime and youth gang culture through to climate change and poverty. It can provide simple and effective solutions to make a difference to the lives of individuals [...]

Advice and Information Management System – free version

LASA aims software
AIMS is a contact management database that LASA says will help you deliver an even better service, giving you the information you need to be more effective and efficient:
“The system enables you to collect information relating to your service users, the issues and matters [...]

BCN signs up with Amazon Associates

Following signing-up to the Amazon Associates Scheme the BCN website aims to promote the books and software found to be most useful in its design and production.
See Rough Guide to Blogging.

change.gov – US President-Elect Blog

Following on from an unprecedented use of the Internet and social media in his Presidential Election campaign – Barack Obama’s Office of the President Elect have established a new blog at http://change.gov
to inform and involve people in the period of transition until his inauguration on 20th January 2009.
“Throughout the Presidential Transition Project, this website will [...]

Capacitybuilders Capital Funding

Watch this space – an early ‘heads-up’ from the Yorkshire Regional ICT Champion regarding possible Capacity Builders capital funding for infrastructure organisations (CVS’s, CEN’s, etc).

IT Innovation in the Community

Are you involved in community development, or do you work with organisations that are ?
Would you like to find out more about real world examples of how local technology projects are helping their communities connect with mainstream services?
Are you interested in hearing about initiatives that are improving Digital Inclusion for excluded groups and communities ?
IT [...]

Virtual Promise 2008 – The power of the internet for charities

Since 2000 Virtual Promise has aimed to provide a unique insight into the use of the internet by charities.
With growing numbers of participants every year and readers from around the globe, we’re told it’s the only way charity professionals can compare and benchmark their new media activity, priorities and investment.
We now want to repeat this [...]