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		<title>The Opiate of the Voluntary Sector?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/11/the-opiate-of-the-voluntary-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To MadLab, yesterday, for the Together Works AGM. Together Works is the social enterprise network for Greater Manchester, and the AGM was a chance to network, then take part in a debate on the future of Social Enterprise in the current climate of cuts.
The panel included Social Entrepreneur Dave Dawes, who started with a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordpress &amp; the Voluntary Sector</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/07/wordpress-the-voluntary-sector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at WordCampUK - a conference for WordPress developers and users. There have been great presentations, from Accessibility &#38; HTML5 to WordPress Themes. However the real value of any conference is the corridor time, face-to-face chat with peers, and people doing all sorts of unexpected and fun things with Free Software.
WordCampUK has been a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Freedom: Big, Green &amp; Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/software-freedom-big-green-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday saw the annual Chorlton Big Green Festival, one of the country&#8217;s largest Green Fairs, and this year blessed with a stall from Manchester Free Software (MFS).
Those of us volunteering to staff the MFS Stall had a great time - not just enjoying the vegan food and drink of the Fair, and catching up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKUUG - &#8220;More than just profit&#8221; talk</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/ukuug-more-than-just-profit-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the UKUUG&#8217;s Large Scale System Administrators&#8217; conference today where I was the rather strange choice of last minute speaker. Having spent 18 hours at the keyboard yesterday I wasn&#8217;t best prepared, but speaking on The Third Sector and Free Software shouldn&#8217;t have been too much of a challenge to me.
Indeed, despite the talk being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last week&#8217;s Global Ignite Week</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/last-weeks-global-ignite-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What can I say? Speaking twice, on two different topics, in a week where I had major deadlines on three other projects is an unfounded faith in my time and project management skills bordering on wreckless! :^)
Somehow I survived, delivering a talk on the Monday session at Manchester&#8217;s Madlab, on the madness of Fractional Reserve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignite Week - Manchester</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/03/ignite-week-manchester/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll write up Ignite week more fully after the Liverpool event on Thursday night, but as Ian Forrester has put up a video of my talk on Re-Inventing Money at Monday&#8217;s Manchester event I&#8217;m embedding it below:

Thanks to Ian for filming the whole night - see the other talks at http://cubicgarden.blip.tv/



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		<title>So what am I up to?</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/so-what-am-i-up-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/so-what-am-i-up-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At recent events, when I meet new people, we naturally ask each other &#8220;What do you do?&#8221;. I&#8217;m failing quite badly at summarising my activities, so thought I&#8217;d briefly list current projects here, for reference:

Gaia University - IT strategy, project management, &#38; SysAdmin, in a programme to gradually upgrade every online aspect of this international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT Happens</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/it-happens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m travelling back from the Connecting 2.0 Communities event held this afternoon and evening at Madlab, in Manchester&#8217;s Northern Quarter. An MDDA-sponsored event to give technical and social media advice to community groups. I was arm-twisted into giving a short talk, so rapidly prepared an item on Social Media tactics and strategy culled from our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun, and a bit deviant</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2010/02/fun-and-a-bit-deviant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FeedingManchester #3
Just back from Feeding Manchester #3, an attempt to co-ordinate everyone in the business of sustainable food production in the city, and keep the city council and its ambitious plans for local food on track. Although I do a bit of sustainable and community IT in Hulme, and social media training in the Northern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BarCamp Manchester 2</title>
		<link>http://www.goodgnus.org/2009/11/barcamp-manchester-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Smedley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend saw the 2nd BarCamp Manchester - an unconference that carries on through the night. Like all unconferences, attendance implies participation, and therefore giving a talk. I gave three.
The first, on permaculture, sustainability, &#38; forest gardens, was quite poorly attended - not something one worries about in general at barcamps, as there&#8217;s so much [...]]]></description>
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