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Amy Sample Ward who works with NetSquared helping non-profits get the most out of technology, is setting up Net Tuesdays in London, bringing together social changemakers of all kinds to discuss social media with the first one starting on November 4th. I hope that we can see lots of Net Tuesdays springing up across the UK soon! Head over to Amy’s blog to find out more. Visit Laura's Notebook to read more articles or to leave a comment.

Information overload is one area of my work that is a constant. In the past recent weeks, I took some time away from the desk and computer with a pencil and big sheet of paper in hand. I hadn’t intended on blogging about it, but a recent message on one of my social networks prompted me to share it. Beth Kanter put out a call on Twitter earlier pointing us to her post on Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Very timely, I took the quiz and was quite pleased that with

“Nobody likes to think of themselves as disabled – lots of people ignore content aimed at disabled people because they want to use what everybody is using” - one of the quotes from the conference day at Scripting Enabled. I recently attended Scripting Enabled, which was a two day event held in London on 19th and 20th September looking at ways to make social media software and the internet more accessible for all. The first day included a series of talks and presentations on the barriers to acc

Bit of an “I did this and then I did that blog entry today”, so skip a couple of paragraphs to get over that if you wish! Last week in the blog I said I was just about to dash off over the hills to Preston and that I would report back on how all things ICT are for the third sector in Lancashire. ‘Apologies for the delay’ (as I hear too frequently on my travels by public transport), however I grabbed some “downtime” away from work for a few days. There is a lot of ‘history’ surrounding the recen

I’ve been following unfolding of the excellent We Are Media project which is a community of people from nonprofits coming together curated by NTEN who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organisations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. Working together the network aims to help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, a

It’s that time of year again. Anyone who is involved with making, developing or editing websites should take this quick survey. Nearly 33,000 people took the first survey last year which provided a snapshot picture into the web profession. Improvements have been made to this years survey to reflect the wider diversity of those involved in the web world including nonprofits and pro bono work. Read the full accompanying article and participate at A List Apart, The Survey 2008. Visit Laura's