Category Archives: Campaigns

Face your online fears

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Dave

Silver Surfers’ Day is coming up on the 21st May. Organised by Digital Unite and supported by UK online centres, among others, it’s a national campaign to highlight the opportunities the internet offers people in later life. As a part … Continue reading →

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Help my village!

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Dave

Thanks to everone who helped out with this vote, hopefully we will have the results soon and that it will be positive news! My village’s community centre has the chance tonight to win a £50,000 grant from the People’s Millions. … Continue reading →

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Teach us a Lesson

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Dave

I’ve been working with BIS and Becta quite a bit recently on the Learning Revolution project, which is all about improving access to informal adult learning – that is, learning which doesn’t generally mean a qualification. So, stuff like book … Continue reading →

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Let’s predict the lottery!

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Dave

I rather enjoyed the Derren Brown stuff this week around predicting the lottery numbers. It was enjoyable and entertaining, and anyone expecting anything approaching seriousness was always going to be disappointed. But what of averaging out the views of the … Continue reading →

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Mash the State

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Dave

Mash the State is a campaign to “encourage UK government and public sector organisations to make their data available to the general public.” The first part of the campaign is dedicated to getting local authorities in the UK using RSS … Continue reading →

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