Written on November 26th, 2007 by Nick Booth
Congrats to the NSPCC and Amazon for partnering up to shift a slice of our Christmas shopping activity into the charities coffers. This is a simple idea which must have involved solid cooperation from both parties. Set up your Amazon wishlist through this site and the affiliate share (no clear percentage) of the stuff your friends/family buy will go to this children charity.
I spotted it because of an advert (above) on Facebook which I presumed was targeted?
We use something similar but no where near as direct for the Birmingham Conservation Trust and recommend (see also here, and here) some sort of affiliate arrangement as a largely painless and sensible idea for any charity which can get support form a network of people who shop online – whether for Christmas or their summer holiday. It can be very lucrative. At the moment if you sign up for Sky TV through our affiliate the charity gets up to £120.
Of course the best way to deal with Christmas waste is to donate directly to charity and make something instead – but I’m not like that. Few of us currently are.
Written on November 25th, 2007 by Nick Booth
I’m really getting the giggles from the Lolpolitics from loldeirdre on flickr. I have my suspicions as to who’s behind this – but they’re clearly having so much fun I don’t want to spoil anything, ot even with a hatwink. If you don’t know who deirdre is try here. Other politicians can be lolled.
Pete Ashton; BiNs; Joanna Geary.
Tags: lolpolitics, conservative, edgbaston
Written on November 25th, 2007 by Nick Booth
The photo of Katie Derham swaddled in bank notes is from the flickr part of the promotional package for the People’s £50 million. In the next two weeks the whole nation will be invited to vote on which of 4 communal projects should win £50 million from the Big Lottery fund.
I want the Black Country Urban Park to win cos the Black Country is an astonishing collection of industrial villages which have a future as a remarkable place to live and work. Also I’m a Brummie and what’s good for our neighbours is good for us.
But I’ve got a tiny stake in this now. After a very recent casual conversation with a couple of people from the Black Country, Jon Bounds and I put together a very most Facebook app/button to help the cause along – (in exchange for similarly modest number of notes and no – nothing like the ones Katie is wearing).
It links to the place where you have to register and vote and also helps you declare allegiance to the cause. Donato Esposito has already set up a facebook group to suport the campaign.
There’s two weeks of online voting culminating in a telephone vote extravaganza. Clearly a much broader online campaign needs to evolve – but how do you reckon we should improve the application as we head towards the end of the vote?
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Tags: biglottery, peoples50million, blackcountry, urbanpark
Written on November 23rd, 2007 by Nick Booth
Written on November 21st, 2007 by Nick Booth
I get excited by Christmas – as do the final year Students at Birmingham City University who’ve launched the video rich blog Turkey Brumsticks. It’ll form part of their final year journalism project. Spotted here and because of comments left here. If you see someone wondering around with camera and mic at the Craft Market it’s Turkey Brumstick – so stop, smile and share a little excitement.
Written on November 21st, 2007 by Nick Booth
A wonderful idea picked from work David Barrie was doing in Middlesborough. Designing a town/city/community/region around food supply. Perhaps this is a way forward for the £50 million Lottery bid for the Black Country Urban Park.
Written on November 20th, 2007 by Nick Booth
PC Bernie Flynn has been working with young people in Quinton in Birmingham consistently since 2001, merging policing with youth work. For him finding the right people for the job and giving them time to show respect and earn respect is at the heart of good community policing. Anti social behaviour in and around his patch has fallen by 40% and in this podcast he explains how that has happened.
This is the most recent in a number of programmes on the channel about the link between policing, and community including the residents who run their own police station, patrol their own streets, those who had the courage to confront pimps and prostitution and how young people act as agents for safer streets.
Birmingham Community Empowerment Network
Quinzone and Safe Haven
West Midlands Police
Briefing on Neighbourhood Policing as a pdf
Click below to listen to the podcast
Click here to download the podcast
Written on November 20th, 2007 by Nick Booth
Written on November 19th, 2007 by Nick Booth
Part of the UK Youth Parliament campaign for better and cheaper public transport which used a tease campaign on facebook to get me to watch it
Written on November 17th, 2007 by Nick Booth
