Why Rochelle’s key takeout from GovCamp Scotland had nothing to do with platforms, technology or geekery.

I was lucky enough to happen upon Simon Berry’s ColaLife social media campaigning Q&A at Sounddelivery this week and was impressed by not only his original idea, its execution and his attitude to online, but also his obvious passion for ColaLife and its potential.

This week Google+1 goes mobile, we discover a new Twitter with a twist and we check up on checking in.

The old volume vs value debate is always ongoing and is as pertinent as ever with the arrival, and spread, of social media. But the way people communicate has changed, the tools we have are different, and so the debate has moved on…

Just as it was during the recent uprisings in Tunisia, the role of social media in the recent upheaval in Egypt has been the subject of much debate since the unrest began on Thursday.

Amid the doom and gloom of spending cuts and rising unemployment, I want to focus this week’s beautiful bytes on reasons to be optimistic for the charity sector in 2011:

I took part in two social media panels today at the Women’s Resource Centre’s Facing Our Future Conference at the Cass Business School, alongside Fiona McLaren from Amnesty UK and @BeckyPants, founder of whomadeyourpants – a cooperative in Southampton, ‘empowering marginalised women and making utterly splendid pants’.

Hot on the heels of Simon and Anna’s presentation last week, and post yesterday, here’s the presentation I gave at NCVO’s seminar, ‘Campaigning Futures: What will campaigning look like in in 5 year’s time’: