Scroll down and you can listen to David Wilcox talking about what I suspect is a unique experiment in producing an online open source collaborative tender for the £1.2 million Cabinet Office programme to create an Innovation Exchange for the Voluntary Sector. David explains the process with relevant links here , and you can see …
Blogging for a Children’s Charity
My friend Beth Kanter has just posted a request for help from a charity based in North Yorkshire and Nairobi. Alison Lowndes is asking what she can do to attract more interest in the blog she co-writes about the situation of vulnerable children in Kenya. Nedra Weinrich and Celeste at the Studio501c have already chipped …
Showdown at Black Patch Park – a new podcast on the Grassroots Channel
OK so a slightly dramatic headline as you can see from the smiling photo. This programme is one of those occasional episodes when we manage to bring an active citizen together with the politician who’s thwarted their efforts (you might like to listen to Albert Bore and Natalie Brade). For four years Simon Baddeley (the …
David Cameron's Balsall Heath sleepover
Buried amongst all the material about Tony Blair standing down is something very close to us here in Balsall Heath. The Tory leader David Cameron has been writing on his own blog about spending two days in the neighbourhood. It’s a place which has always made an impression on the man. He was here before, …