Brighton NGOs Share "Web 2.0-Style"

Thanks to everyone who came out for Take Back the Web yesterday at the Friends' Meeting House in Brighton! I hope you got as much out of the day as I did :)

A big thanks as well to veteran blogger Dave Walsh for his workshop on blogging (and for describing what it was like to blog on his most recent expedition aboard the Greenpeace Esperanza), to conference co-organiser Chris Anderson for his workshops on wikis and podcasting, to Francis Irving for presenting on the many powerful tools that mySociety has developed and made available for others to use through open APIs, the participants of my workshop on RSS for putting up with the references to grease, vaseline and all things lubricatory, and to EVERYONE for contributing to the amazing vegan feast we enjoyed — sharing (and mashing up) the dishes we all brought really added something to the event, don't you think?

I hope that people will continue to add their notes to and benefit from the conference wiki, and it'd be great if people could share their photos by adding them to the Take Back the Web Flickr group! I see Jeremy Keith has uploaded and tagged a few photos "takebacktheweb" — if other people have more, please add them to the pool!

And finally, thank you, Chris, Helen, Sara and Tim for being so easy and fun to work with this on this event. Let's do it again some time :)

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Greenpeace UK CMS Project Update

A lot of progress has been made since my last post on the Greenpeace UK CMS project — the Design & Implementation phases of the project have been planned and are well underway (37% complete), EchoDitto has contracted Birocreative to make improvements to the existing GPUK UI and we've seen the first round of mock-ups (which look great), we're getting ready to begin populating our new Drupal site with content, and in about a month or so should be ready to begin looking more closely at how we want certain bits of functionality to work (which will really be the fun part, the part where we get to revisit the outcomes of our online strategy session with EchoDitto in late August where we talked about tactics for building true online community and engaging existing supporters).

Stay tuned!

birocreative, cms, drupal, echoditto, greenpeace, importantprojects, interfacedesign, NGO, nptech, open source

We Can Stop Climate Chaos - I Count

The Stop Climate Chaos coalition has launched the I Count campaign! Check it out, sign up, get involved, take action and be sure to make it out to I Count in the Square on Saturday, November 4th!

See you there :)

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