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	<title>CharityBlog &#187; volresource</title>
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	<description>For voluntary and community organisations</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Handcrafted information from Malvern</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/04/handcrafted-information-from-malvern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I included an item in this week&#8217;s VolResource email newsletter on the government&#8217;s &#8216;Power of Information Task Force&#8217; before I had a chance to read the speech from minister Tom Watson. This amuses me for a number of reasons.
Firstly the effort that has gone in to giving web links to as many items in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty for open source sites</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/02/amnesty-for-open-source-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As pointed out in an email from Dan Macquillan of Internet Artizans, Amnesty International&#8217;s website is now running on the open source platforms of Drupal and CiviCRM.
I&#8217;ll add it to the CharityBlog link page of open source use by voluntary groups, but it&#8217;s getting such a  common occurrence now that a) it would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteering makes top ten for 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/01/volunteering-makes-top-ten-for-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/01/volunteering-makes-top-ten-for-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Volunteering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An American volunteering website made Time Magazine&#8217;s Top 10 list (of websites, that is) for 2007. Link to Volunteer Match.
I saw some turn of year mentions of UK volunteer opportunities, but don&#8217;t think any sites got quite that level of recognition over here. Can anyone prove me wrong?
(Time top 10 courtesy of ephilanthropy.org)]]></description>
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		<title>Charity client data joins the lost pile</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/charity-client-data-joins-the-lost-pile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/charity-client-data-joins-the-lost-pile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[IT and Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not just government agencies which manage to lose important data.
Kablenet reports that a laptop containing client information has been stolen from the car of an employee of Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland, with up to 60,000 client records. However, the data is protected by three levels of security, including a high level of encryption.
Please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get your mapping think cap on</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/get-your-mapping-think-cap-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/get-your-mapping-think-cap-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Charities and other voluntary organisations are to get the chance to use Ordnance Survey maps in web applications for non-commercial purposes. Technology Guardian reports:
Ordnance Survey&#8217;s OpenSpace product is a &#8220;slippy map&#8221; interface, a piece of software that allows users to place any kind of information with a geographic reference over a map displayed on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real web use in the rights field</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/real-web-use-in-the-rights-field/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/real-web-use-in-the-rights-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT and Internet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Frontline Action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And while we&#8217;re on human rights, a posting on judging Best Use of the Social Web by a Nonprofit comes up with some innovative uses in the field - the use of Twitter by activists to let people know whether they&#8217;ve been arrested or disappeared and &#8220;the courageous use of YouTube by award winning blogger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source Amnesty</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/12/open-source-amnesty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[IT and Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International has a &#8220;new, completely re-architected, W3C Web Content Accessibility-compliant, data protection law and privacy legislation-compliant, multi-lingual and totally open source Drupal, CiviCRM and Alfresco-based website&#8221;. That&#8217;s according to Important Projects consultancy, who had something to do with it.
Not everyone will like the bright yellow backing to headlines, but then that&#8217;s part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The network and the online community</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/11/the-network-and-the-online-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/11/the-network-and-the-online-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can be fun trying to keep a track of thinking around online communities and effective ways of using the web, and then trying to work out how that relates to the voluntary sector. For instance:
On Gerry McGovern&#8217;s blog, which emphasises focusing on the customer not the organisation, Thinking Web, not website &#8220;If your product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sector develops around the world</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/11/sector-develops-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/11/sector-develops-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sector Developments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of international (English speaking) voluntary sector developments:
From The Malta Independent: Enactment of legislation to strengthen the voluntary sector - &#8220;The National Council of Women welcomed the Voluntary Organisations Act, passed by the House of Representatives on 24 September.&#8221; This item is rather truncated and doesn&#8217;t explain much but it appears that a Commissioner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-profit journalism</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/11/non-profit-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/11/non-profit-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>volresource</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Frontline Action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does Britain need an equivalent to ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom launching early 2008? I think the States has a greater need, and we have the likes of OpenDemocracy already, but any comments?
Here&#8217;s an excerpt from Nonprofit Online News aboutProPublica:
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised to learn that the project is backed by some of the very same grantmakers [...]]]></description>
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