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Mr Hurd framed his speech in Big Society rhetoric, offering his own interpretation of what we should take the term to mean.  'The Big Society is not a government programme but a call to action,' he declared.  'It is the catalyst that will encourage more people to think bigger.' How is this to be achieved? With a transfer of power.  By unlocking state assets to the wider public, Mr Hurd wishes to give people the rights and opportunities to take action in their communities.

As a consequence, Mr Hurd predicts that 'there are going to be more people coming to charities with their time and money.'  The challenge: 'how will the sector manage... ]]>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:54:49 GMTChris Hughes is to the internet what Christopher Columbus was to Renaissance cartography.  He sees the web as a collection of relationship maps.  Facebook (which he co-founded) maps relationships between people, Yelp maps relationships between people and local businesses, Amazon maps relationships between people and products.  After helping to set up Facebook, Hughes mapped the relationship between people and politics in his capacity as director of Obama's online election campaign.  And now in his latest expedition, Jumo, he is mapping out the relationship between people and non-profits.

To be launched later this year, Jumo will attempt to foster long-term and sustainable relationships between people and non-profits in order to tackle the world's core issues.  Taking Haiti as an example, Hughes declared that it was not t... ]]>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:38:24 GMT
Comic Relief were the first charity to gain 100% of fees removed, and they were blown away by the last Red Nose Day. They raised £7,800,000 even though the SMS number was only on show for 75 minutes of broadcasting. They continued to receive a stream of donations as the videos with the SMS number also circulated YouTube.

Text donations offer a real chance to radically increase funds for charities. As more and more people are browsing the web on handheld devises and using smart phone apps, the natural way to give ... ]]>Tue, 08 May 2012 05:15:00 GMTTwittonary to help you understand this new language. It’s all a bit of fun, (see how recently a sausage roll now has more followers than Cheryl Cole), but you have a serious cause. How can social media make a difference to your organisation?

Some of you won’t like what I am going to say, but the real point of all this is that the social media consultants have got is all wrong. All the geeks are making life more difficult, more fragmented. I realis... ]]>Tue, 08 May 2012 02:00:22 GMT