This site has been created to support the workshop at the 2008 UK Circuit Rider Conference with the session being run by David Wilcox, Laura Whitehead and Nick Booth. Our session aims to help support ICT workers who work with nonprofit organisations with their knowledge of social media and showcase some of the tools available and how they can be used to enhance an organisations ability to connect and share with a wider audience.
David Wilcox
David Wilcox specialises in helping organisations and groups collaborate using a mix of creative events and social media. At the conference there will be an opportunity to try one of the workshop games he and colleague Drew Mackie have developed. These were first used in the early development of what became UK online centres, and more recently in the Digital Challenge programme and by Government departments planning how to use social media for public engagement.
David has also worked as a Fleet Street journalist, and a consultant in regeneration partnerships and community engagement.
He blogs at www.designingforcivilsociety.org.
Laura Whitehead
Laura Whitehead is a creative web and print designer specialising in the use of new and innovative technologies to further the development of effective communications for the nonprofit sector. She is passionate about participation, inclusion and accessibility for all. Working in the sector for over 15 years, Laura has also supported a wide range of organisations and communities with their knowledge and information development, and their collaborative partnership working.
Laura blogs her insights and discoveries with modern fangled media at www.laura.popokatea.co.uk.
Nick Booth
Nick Booth is a broadcast journalist by training who now specialises in online media, leadership and communities. He regards IT as a tool for telling stories, connecting people and encouraging conversation. In 2005 he set up the Grassroots Channel Podcast to tell the stories of active citizens in Birmingham. It’s still going strong with more than 10,000 programmes downloaded each month.
Before becoming freelance Nick was Director of the strategic watchdog Birmingham City Pride and before that deputy editor of current affairs for the BBC in the West Midlands. Nick is a member of the ICT Foresight team, sits on the advisory board of the NCVO, is a trustee of the Birmingham Conservation Trust, a school governor and a Fellow of the RSA.
Nick blogs at www.podnosh.com.
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