Author: Nick Booth

Money Matters – but not to success.

I was reading parts of the draft of Charles Leadbeater’s new book We-Think. (well worth a good mooch – and you can comment before he publishes.) He’s grappling with a leadership dilemma part of which can be summed up as: if organisations and professionalism are so precious to us, why are modest online structures able to accomplish so much with networked volunteers?. Read more

Reuters make us all (photo)journalists. Yahoo for Victoria Wood!

People have been bursting to write about the combined move by Yahoo and Reuters into allowing any and all of us to submit our pics (through flickr). If they sell them you’ll get a deal – if they don’t they might still show them on their own sites (free content).

There’s been mixed reaction to this – much of it along the lines of wailing at big corporations exploiting the little man. That of course is nonsense. You choose whether to send a pic their way. There’s also the death of the photo-journalist line – maybe true but missing the point – the value is in the image, not the person who gathered it.

Deep Jive (lovely clean site) has a much more mature approach in this post. To quote: Read more

Masood heads for The Hague – a new podcast on the Grassroots Channel

Masood Yasin travels from Washwood Heath in Birmingham to The Hague (Den Haag) in the Netherlands to meet active citizens in Holland. Find out what his thoughts are on new approaches to jobs and education to young people plus why he wants to bring a Dutch idea to Birmingham.

Masood made his first appearance on the channel a year ago telling his story in Become a Decision Maker.

The Grassroots Channel is supported by the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network and produced by podnosh.com.

Also we mention listeners who’ve been in touch including Rob Annable in Birmingham.

Links:

R4R Europe (dead link)