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Tech for Good – scaling social innovations

By: Annika Small
On: 12th February 2013

Digital technology has already transformed how we communicate, how we work, how we learn, how we shop. At a time of accelerating climate change, a growing ageing population, persistent unemployment and increasing social inequalities, we urgently need to realise the potential of technology for social innovation. This is not simply about adding digital to existing services but making imaginative use of digital technology to fundamentally re-think - and radically reform - how we address significant social challenges.

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Tenants on top

By: davebriggs
On: 26th January 2013

The welfare reforms planned for April 2013 are a big upheaval. For housing associations this could mean rent loss, increasing arrears and constraints on future income growth.

In order to avert these risks, landlords will need to better understand their tenants. Resource allocation will have to be more targeted and more business intelligence (e.g. customer profiling) will be needed.

As not all tenants will be affected in the same way, housing associations will need to have in place improved systems for sharing information and identifying those who need help.

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Our Digital Planet - win £500 worth of photography equipment

By: Rachael Gant
On: 12th July 2012

The internet is amazing. It has the potential to make a positive difference to our own lives, the lives of those around us and the world we live in too.

Who knew the entrance to the internet was on Bread Street

image courtesy of blipfoto.com/alexamato

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From SSE to the Nominet Trust: The Story of the Digital Assistant Academy

By: sinead@eightfold.org
On: 26th April 2012

I remember my first day at the School for Social Entrepreneurs like it was yesterday. 20 of us, all dressed up to the nines, assessing each other, trying to impress, and trying not to give away how nervous we were. Over the next 11 months, these strangers would become friends and colleagues; social businesses would be planned and built, and there would be laughter and tears.

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iKnowHow: building a wiki for the voluntary sector (part nine) Reading, evolved

By: faulkner.marie1
On: 16th April 2012

Well first things first, a quick plug: today we launch the third and final subject for our iKnowHow wiki project; giving you complete access to all of our material on commissioning and procurement.

So, back to the issue of this blog: how to strike the right balance between creating a good reading experience and making it obvious that a wiki guide is editable? After all, most people come to our site to read information and advice – they don’t want their reading experience interrupted by big edit buttons and menus. However, wikis thrive with lots of editorial input – it needs to be obvious that people can edit them (and easy for them to do so). more >

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iKnowHow: building a wiki for the voluntary sector (part three) - Are we ready?

By: faulkner.marie1
On: 24th February 2012

In my last post I talked about how popular – and common – wikis are on the web. But why aren’t there any for the voluntary sector? Surely they don’t only work when people are talking about the Muppets or Star Wars? I liked the comment posted on the last blog: surely the culture of volunteering in the voluntary sector would make us, as a group, ideal candidates for maintaining successful wikis?

There are two clear trends we’ve noticed at KnowHow, which suggest the time might be right for us all to embrace wiki collaboration as a form of learning how to do our jobs better.

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