Social entrepreneurs in Big Society

Background.

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Update.

CHISEL kids - CHISEL is an acronym for Crime prevention. Health & personal safety, Identity awareness, Sports & fitness, Education support, Lifeskills & mentoring and are the key objectives of the programme.

Pinkstinks - a campaign and social enterprise that challenges the culture of pink which invades every aspect of girls' lives.

Mapping for Change - an innovative social enterprise that exists to support the development of sustainable communities. We specialise in providing participatory mapping services to communities, voluntary sector organisations, local authorities and developers using a suite of innovative tools for communication.

Creating community websites with platforms other than WordPress

Useful post from Nicky at TAL.

The Tuttle Club

The Tuttle Club is a loose association of people finding a way of working better together both online and off-

There's no need to sign up - everyone's welcome at our Friday morning meetups. They run from 10am to midday at the Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St, London WC1X 9NG.

Time Magazine's Top 50 sites of 2009

Here's the list. Sadly no comment on each of the sites, or any categorisation. One for a rainy day...

Where Geeks meet Government

Rewired State.

"Rewired State runs hackdays where developers show government what is possible, and government shows developers what is needed."

15 Ideas You Can Steal From The UK's Best Online Community

c/o Rich Millington - a list of 15 things Mumsnet does well.

How to Add Multimedia to Your Blog

Useful guide.

Kizoa.com - Slideshows Made Easy

Kizoa is a slideshow maker that is usable by just anybody, at absolutely no cost. It will let you take as many pictures as you want and concatenate them together in order to come up with a slideshow that can also include music and sound effects.

Making sense of the web during a crisis

Interesting article from the BBC about SwiftRiver, an online mapping tool that can be used to collect and plot reports and information coming in from citizens and organisations via e-mail, SMS, the web and Twitter.

Apture

The Apture Site Bar is a new way to give readers more information without leaving the page. (With thanks to Joanna Geary.)