Dave Nolan

<>Following the appointment of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government in 2010 the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced their intention to redistribute National Lottery Funding.  Currently Sport receives 16.6% of lottery funding [1].  DCMS wish to return the Lottery to its original funding position with 60% of the Distribution Fund divided equally between sport, heritage and the arts.  This will be achieved through a two stage approach which sees an initial rise of...

Successfully creating online revenue - seen as both fundraising and also commerce, sales or affiliate activities - will remain a central strategic aim of voluntary and community organisations over the next five years.

<>Social media and its potential effects are likely to play an increasingly important role and - looking beyond the increasing availability of the tools themselves - we feel organisations that begin to understand and engage their audiences with fundraising calls that speak to the...

<>Preventing theft, fraud and sabotage underpins the majority of online security trends. However, it's a highly changeable and perpetually fluid environment. This is compounded by both the increasing number of tasks, processes and transactions we now rely on the internet for and also because the nature and characteristics of the threats involved is constantly morphing and changing. The increasing adoption of broadband access - both fixed and mobile - and efforts to reduce the number of people...

The issues of online trust and identity are both intertwined and also express a variety of political, legislative, commercial, technical and social implications – especially considering the ever increasing range of activities and interactions which using the internet provides.

<>Personal internet literacy has also been identified as a key variable. Ofcom’s 2010 Media Literacy Audit [1] sought to research opinions and behaviour around online trust and assess whether people’s attitudes and their...

In my view, there’s a strong trend for people for people to consolidate their online presence, identity, and activity (a practice sometimes called “lifestreaming”).

Two needs crop up again and again. Personally, I want to be able to:

1. import and export information about me and my friends/contacts without having to type it all again
2. resuse and integrate what I do and say here with my blogs, lifestreams, twitterstreams etc.

<>In other words, break out of the “walled garden” of Facebook et. ...

Very interesting!

Here is a complete list of all our publications from 2004.

<>TitleDateAvailability<>ICT Foresight:  Charitable giving and fundraising in a digital world12/2007Free PDF (673kb)ICT Foresight: how online communities can make the net work for the VCS03/2007Free PDF (1.3MB)ICT Foresight: campaigning and consultation in the age of participatory media10/2006Free PDF (580kb)Voluntary Sector Strategic Analysis 2007/0810/2007Buy from £10.50Voluntary Sector Strategic Analysis 2006/0706/2006Free PDF...

An interesting survey of ‘freeconomics’, the economics of giving stuff away for free, from Wired Magazine.

I had a few minutes so I mashed in popular del.icio.us tags for each of the sites you mentioned and reposted it on Grazr.

Using the del.icio.us API like this is one way to track memes. If I had more time I might have experimented with Reuters Calais.

The tags in the current list are quite generic because they are the tags for homepages, but imagine doing the same for a the latest posts.

Obviously there’s both a resource discovery and information sifting function to this.

Data! Yum.

From your second list:

• New fundraising channels; in particular text to donate to the 2004 tsunami fund, but also online donations in general (couldn’t find any figures, sorry)

I understand bootstrap to mean set up and grow an organisation without using large amounts of external help or going through traditional institutions.

For example, the Open Rights Group first raised income through PledgeBank, rather than applying to traditional external funds. Of course, one of the reasons that worked for them is that their natually supporter base is technically-literate.

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