Entries from May 2006

May 27, 2006

netsquared

I’m taking a week of the day job and going on holiday to see friends and to go to this conference. Meeting up with various pledgers, and people who have blogged the pledge and the project some of whom have offered to help and take on specific roles. I’ll be introducing them [...]

May 22, 2006

logos revisited

Sam Ajluni and his designers have done a great job in working up two of the logos following suggestions. We are not done yet but the two are Digital and Quote Bubble. I know quite a few people liked Black & White, but there were some design concerns about the width and some [...]

May 22, 2006

comparing models

One of the many things I said I would do is look at different existing mentoring and mentoring-type organisations. Thanks to M.T.Rainey of Horses’ Mouth and Gideon Lyons of Unltd for sending me these two remarkably different types of examples.
Nabuur.com is a Netherlands-based charity whose novel idea is to create online villages around specific projects [...]

May 4, 2006

we media conference

I’m at the WE MEDIA conference in London all about participatory media. It’s sponsored by the BBC and by Reuters and we are in the second day of talks. We have just been listening to Jeffrey Sachs live by satellite link from the Earth Institute at Columbia University as he was asked by [...]