Regional Development Officers

"Second phase of increasing third sector public service delivery 09/11/2009 The second phase of the government's National Programme for Third Sector Commissioning has started. It aims to "increase the awareness and understanding of how utilising the third sector's specialist knowledge will benefit the delivery of public services", increasing third sector involvement throughout the commissioning cycle and improve bidding practice."

"€1 billion available for actions under Grudtvig programme. Call for proposals 13/11/2009 First deadline: January 16th 2010 Part of the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme, Grundtvig aims to increase participation in adult education, improve co-operation between adult education organisations, and ensure that the socially excluded have access to education - especially those who left education without basic qualifications. Grundtvig supports the following actions: * Visits, placements, adult education exchanges and preparation visits needed to plan exchanges * Learning Partnerships * Multilateral projects for improving adult education systems through development and transfer of innovation and good practice * Networks of experts and organisations developing adult education spreading good practice and supporting partnerships Multilateral projects, Networks, and Accompanying measures are financed directly by the Commission. The first deadline for proposals for Grundtvig actions is January 16th 2010. See the full call for proposals. All other actions are financed (in the UK) via Ecotec. See the Ecotec guidance on how to apply for Grundtvig funding. "

Sometimes innovation and vision is just a question of time-zones. I'm afraid to say that the USA is usually ahead in many areas. Check out this analysis of the Social Innovation fund. Via twitter ;-)

"The Community programme focuses on funding core work that helps disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community. We are particularly interested in work that achieves this through: * improved social and community involvement * improved life choices and chances * helping people to be heard."

free open source tagging. Inject data into your audio content. Useful for Media players and portable devices: e.g. like album art for audio, etc.

Rach, lovely free PDF resource - would lilnk up with our socmedia workshop!

Useful to edit podcasts

What about adapting this to suit your own content creation needs? - could link with socialmedia workshop

Check out the sticky notes referenced in the group and also active on the page. This lady grew 90k customers by sharing her passion for gardening, growing herbs, etc. She has then gone on to build a shop, have video channel, podcasts, etc.

marketing in a social media age where people power un-ravels brand realities! - un-learn traditional marketing by checking out this blogpost - fab! ;-)

Get your website content high in the ranking of search engines. This three part guides shows you how! - free! enjoy ;-D

This is a site that apparently allows you to post events for free. Check it out.

Screen Casts/Video Casts: Resource Dev & Workflow (to work with flip cameras)... Xilisoft video converter: http://www.xilisoft.com/video-converter.html Get the Ultimate Edition: $ 55.95 (US Dollars) One Converter Person - Save many license fee costs... This video editor does the conversion from Flipcamera to windows movie maker compatible video! Doing it in this way would save the organisation license fees as the converted files could be converted & trimmed in a a free standard video editor that comes with windows. You would then have one person do the conversion and other people the editing. I can help with Video editing to the standard that you see tutorials on youtube... I have done many video edits for technology/software screen casts. We could discuss the screen casting workflow. I will CC Rach in case she also needs to develop similar resources. Kill two birds with one stone!

Rach this is the video for the question you had regarding tracking a page. Check out vid for reminder.

"open source learning management systems" - this blog has a list of them. In case info is needed for alternatives and other projects. No time to pursue or check these out, but list is there anyway ;-)

Lovely example of a web stream. Rach, we could do this if we got time to test and explore the options.

Free Carbon footprint resources

Easy peasy collab with google docs.

This is a find by Eva - but not sure if came across this in an NCVO tech sponsored event