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A Different Perspective

I live in Edinburgh which is a must see for any visitor to Scotland but for folk like me who live and work here it’s easy to forget what a great city it is. Every so often I like to hit the streets, parks, cycle tracks, whatever of Edinburgh and pretend like I’m a tourist. [...]

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Is Twitter the New School Playground?

Today we have a post from Jane Griffin who works with Waverley Care. If you are in any way interested in learning about social media and are doing some of your learning on Twitter you’ll notice the constant cry of “engage with me, don’t broadcast to me!”   This is great advice for all the non-profits out [...]

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Bringing the Reality Home

Today we have a guest post from Emma Ives who works with Habitat for Humanity, GB. On 12th January, a huge earthquake in Haiti left 200,000 people dead and more than 1 million homeless. It was carnage on a massive scale. International aid agencies kicked into action straight away to bring food, medicine and tents [...]

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Preaching to the not Quite Converted

Today we have a guest post from Jane Griffin who works with Waverley Care. As we head towards the end of the financial year trustees of charities will be meeting round the UK to look at the financial impact the recession has had in the last year and to plan for the year ahead. They [...]

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