The social networking site Facebook appears to be flavour of the month (see today’s Networker article in The Observer for instance). However, it also has some possibilities.

I was prompted to join by David Wilcox (Designing for Civil Society) and have located a number of relevant groups with a presence. They’re not all bursting with activity, yet, but with Facebook’s origin in higher education there’s a range of student volunteering groups for instance which could make future developments interesting.

Not exactly the first way to get campaigning groups together online (e.g. see BBC’s Action Network) but perhaps once which could attract more than the usual suspects. We’ll be updating the VolResource campaigning resources page soon!

OK, now to check if the ‘Share with Facebook’ button works (only active on CharityBlog’s author pages at present).

Some changes on CharityBlog.

While upgrading to the most recent version of WordPress, we took advantage of its new easy export/import feature to amalgamate OpenCharityBlog with this one. We’ve copied over the log-ins for those registered there, as well as the posts and comments. (The import mis-matched authors to posts, but we hope that’s now sorted.)

Looks like the OCB links didn’t make it across - next thing to do then.

Note: We may not have updated all references to OCB yet!

I am trying to get feedback on A-boards and other street furniture - what do people think about these? My organisation is keen to start a campaign to highlight the problems disabled people face when dealing with street furniture. It’s been very difficult to get our clients to comment so I thought people on this site might have some comments instead.

The campaign would focus on disabled people mainly but obviously other people would benefit too: people who use walking sticks and frames, people with prams/ buggies, people with dogs - the list is endless.

We are based in Richmond upon Thames in London, so feedback from this area would be really useful but all comments are welcome.