USA Today says death toll rising above 22,000 after Cyclone Nargis. A million homeless. 41,000 missing. Its a massive tragedy! God help them and show us what to do. – Pray for Burma Which organizations do you recommend to give your donations? Technorati Tags: burma
Read MoreTim Keller Speaks at Google
Tim Keller speaks about his book “The Reasons for God” at Google HQ. Worth watching and waiting for the Q and A at the end. Technorati Tags: tim keller
Read MoreCouncil on Foundations: Tuesday
“Together, we can create a model that is simple, sustainable, and successful. We call it “The Power of Us” and there’s room, reason, and benefits, for everyone.” The End of Philanthropy, by Marc Benioff of the Huffington Post – Diane Sieger is not coming and she tells us why. – Carla Javits estimates 3500 participants…
Read MoreDisturbing news from Google about my blog
Its really sad. According to Google Webmaster Tools, these are the top results of people reaching my site through the Google search engine and then clicking through (%) to my site. I was hoping for something a bit more uplifting. A bit more . . . well . . you know. . . less disturbing.…
Read MoreCouncil on Foundations: Monday
“Use social networks to tell people what organizations your foundation is funding, and why. This will permit you to serve as a scout for citizen philanthropists looking to make informed decisions about where they can direct their philanthropic dollars.” Number 4 of Seven Tips for Foundations Looking to “Push the Envelope” of Philanthropy (Instead of…
Read MorePangea Day
Pangea Day is May 10th. Described as a global campfire, and hosted in hundreds of locations in multiple languages, there will be a four hour internet broadcast involving an international film festival. The most northerly location in the UK will be at our Sorting Room. Yes – we are hosting an event here in Stromness,…
Read MoreEmerging Philanthropy Spotlight No. 1: The Indian Taxi Fund
“So here’s my modest/ambitious proposal . . . create a scale-free network that doesn’t rely on multiple lines going to one source. To get rid of the lines altogether and create spiders. And to leverage the crowdsourcing of blogs and the benevolence of businesses and individuals.” Josh Brown, My Proposal. A great example of emerging…
Read MorePhilanthropy at COF: blogs, buzzwords and books
“You are a better grantmaker if you do blogs.” Susan Berresford (ex-Ford Foundation) at the Emerging Leaders Salon, Council on Foundations 2008 “Bloggers are not reporters . . . they bring a multi-disciplinary approach to thinking about philanthropy.” Sean S.S, Tactical Philanthropy on bloggers. Blogs to watch this week from the Conference: – Tactical Philanthropy,…
Read MoreFamily update
We are all enjoying good weather and are preparing for our first summer in Orkney. Sam has a part time job working for one of the cafes across the road. Tamara is only 6 but she is becoming a great chef – She just made something yesterday without a recipe – just threw in all…
Read MoreDr Reg Codrington on the Emerging Church
You all know the ubiquitous South African Graeme Codrington from his many writings on Future Church, etc. But did you know that his dad, the venerable Dr Reg Codrington has written a great review and synthesis of 5 emerging church books, drawing upon his vast four decades of experience? He responds to books by Carson,…
Read MoreEmerging Philanthropy – next week.
The COF (Council on Foundations) Summit starts on Sunday. A Tactical Philanthropy blogging team is in place. RSS is here. Tag is “COF2008” During next week, I will be exploring the idea of emerging philanthropy, the new ways in which web 2.0 is affecting the resourcing and reporting of social enterprise projects, and i want…
Read MoreCCM – The Future of Contemporary Christian Music
“All the younger artists signed to Christian labels within the last 10 years or less will struggle to understand where they fit—if they fit at all anymore.” “Another whole group of “ccm” era survivors will continue to move country music forward with great success” “The Tooth & Nail tribe of artists will continue on. It’s…
Read MoreUpdate: radio interview, dark room, etc
– We are all OK. Weather changing every day. – Radio Orkney came out yesterday and interviewed Debbie (my wife) and some of the others involved in the Sorting Room that launches in 3 weeks. Debbie was also in the paper this morning from an interview with the newspaper folk regarding starting up her pottery…
Read MoreFlight of the Conchords – Go Kiwi’s!
Flight of the Conchords debut album hits Number 3 in USA. Well done! As you know I grew a beard so that my friend Derek (who looks like Jemaine) and I could do a take off for YouTube. We actually didn’t have time for that. Well we did but we were too lazy. Anyway, I…
Read More5 Web 2.0 Spring Cleaning Projects. Done!
Spring is upon us. Here are a few small Web 2.0 projects that I have managed to get done in the past week. 1. Set up Flock as my default browser. (done). Goodbye Firefox and Safari. Flock has been one of the favourite browsers in my harem but now will become my preferred browser-dashboard, Flickr…
Read MoreMichel Serres
Simon Critchley: “Coming from a background in phenomenology, I’d like to ask you about your relationship with modernity.” Michel Serres: “Maturnity! Why do you ask me about that?” (link) Michel Serres is my favourite French thinker and author and yet only a few of his works are in English. Notably, The Troubadour of Knowledge (some…
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