The third social media surgery for voluntary and community groups in Birmingham is next Wednesday, January 28th 2009 at BSVC 138 Digbeth, B5 6DR, (map). Please feel free to drop in anytime between 5.30pm and 7pm where volunteers from the Birmingham bloggers group will show you how you can make best use of social media. …
Government cancels Parliamentary vote following internet campaign on MP's expenses
Early this week My Society urged us to write to our MP’s to insist that the new Freedom of Information Bill should not be used to conceal MP’s expenses. I sent this to Lynne Jones: I was really concerned this week to read reports in both left and right wing biased newspapers that parliament is …
Big City Plain and two nubs.
Many, many evenings of voluntary work went public last night with a site to complement Birmingham’s Big City Plan consultation. www.bigcitytalk.org has been built by Jon Bounds who’s worked patiently with other Birmingham bloggers Julia Gilbert, Nicky Getgood, Michael Grimes and myself to translate council speak into clearer speak. Stef Lewandowski has also been among …
Sunday Links:
The National Trust creates this google map which helps people find National Trust properties and make their way there. No substantial techy shakes, but what is most significant though is a sense of collboration here. They tell us it’s a beta and ask for our iddeas about how to imporve it. That attitude is good …