Posts Tagged ‘training’

Four Flip cameras to give away

Posted by Gavin Wray on 4th May 2011
Closeup of Flip camera in a person's hand

Photo by Podnosh

Over the last six months Podnosh have trained several groups of people in social reporting – using video, audio and other social media to objectively report what’s happening in communities, at events or meetings and to quickly publish this information on the web.

If you’ve been part of the training – through Every Voice Counts, the Black Country Take Part Pathfinder program or with Birmingham Neighbourhood Forums – then we’ve sent you an email.

It’s offering you the chance to win one of four Flip cameras bought as part of the Every Voice Counts programme. The aim of the training and these cameras was to create a legacy of community groups, active citizens and even council officers empowered to use the web for civic good.

So if you received one of these emails please write a social blog post whereever you think is fit and link your post to this one. We’ll read the posts and pass on the cameras to four groups or people.

What do we mean by “social”? Need some ideas on what to write about? You might want to look at:

The closing date is Friday 20th May 2011. Remember to include a link to this post.

Good luck and we look forward to reading your posts. Everyone will get mentioned here once the decision has been made (the posts will be judged by Nick Booth, owner of Podnosh and Denise Taylor from RAWM) – and we’ll explain why we chose the posts we did.

So four Flip cameras to help you hold power to account or reflect what going on in your neighbourhood or your community.

Online resources and information

Posted by Simon Harper on 11th February 2011

There are lots of resources online for you to find out more about the Big Society, and to help organisations from the community and voluntary sector. The websites listed below are links to sources of information which you’ll find useful and there are several organisations which you can talk to for help and advice, whether you’re looking for guidance on a community project, interested in finding out about what your local authority can do to help you, or if you want to know how to go about volunteering in your community.

Big Society and the community sector

CAVOS

Community Development Foundation

Community Matters

CVS BASIS Project

Local Government Association

National Association for Voluntary and Community Action

NCVO on volunteering and the Big Society

Public Agency and Community Empowerment Strategies

Skills – Third Sector

The Consultation Institute

ThirdSector

Third Sector Forums

Information on community empowerment (more…)

Round-up of the partners' blogs in 2010

Posted by Simon Harper on 4th January 2011

During the project we encouraged members of the Every Voice Counts partnership to blog about the work that they’ve been doing and their experiences of the project. The idea behind this was to offer increased transparency, allowing people to read about what the partnership had been doing and also giving members the chance to share their good work beyond internal reports.

Though some found it easier than others to get into the habit of blogging about their work, there were some interesting results from this, which are outlined below. (more…)

Training to use the website

Posted by nataliewynn on 24th March 2010

In the office working on the website

Today, Pauline and I are learning to use the new EVC website.   (more…)

Young People & Empowerment

Posted by Andrew Brightwell on 18th March 2010
Davina Goodchild

Davina Goodchild

Davina Goodchild of Youth Action Network is the delivery partner for the Young People and Empowerment project. (more…)