stephen blyth’s blog

On Friday 19 October 2007 I presented a guest lecture for students on the stakeholder communication and image management course run through the Unitec Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management. Read about the course in my post “Unitec lecture - what I also meant to say”.

Below are the following:

• an updated copy of my presentation “Keeping up: new, new, new things online”
• a list of the websites I referred to
• participant’s favourite websites

Presentation

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Website list

These are the websites I referred to:

• Thirdrail’s tomato sauce photo (2005 canning series), from flickr creative commons tags
• Beth’s blog: how nonprofits can use social media
• Groupings: the NZ webguide blog on using communications technology to activate community groups and non-profits
• JustBlogs, blog of the Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
• Beer Activist blog: drink beer, save the world
• YouTube - Perpetual 2007: ASB Trust promotional clips
• Christian Aid podcasts
• MySpace impact channel
• Unicef on MySpace
• Downtown Community Ministry on Facebook (NB you need to sign-up to Facebook to see this page)
• WWF Faketown site, (NB interview with WWF CEO Chris Howe broadcast on Radio NZ 19 August, no longer available, but I have requested permission to share this).
• KQED Second Life on Campus story, available as streaming media or as a downloadabble MPEG4 file (81 MB)

Favourite websites

At the beginning of the lecture I asked everyone to share a favourite website. Put on the spot, here’s the list:

• Research in Practice - supporting evidence -informed practice with children and families
• Grabaseat, AirNZ
• TradeMe
• Ministry of Education
• Google, including Google Apps (simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for your organisation)
• The Shape of Money - Property investment, KiwiSaver and personal financial planning tools and information
• TakingITGlobal - an online community connecting youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation - US grantmakers working to improve the lives of children, enable the creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore the earth’s natural systems
• Refugee and Migrant Service
• Stuff, Radio NZ
• OneWorld.net - the latest news and views from over 1,600 organizations promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide
• Crikey: telling you what they won’t - Australian political news, business news, arts, media and independent commentary served daily
• NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisations
• Guardian newspaper (UK)