US company in the market for web-based tools etc. assoc with behavioural change (& self mgt). Not sure if I'd sign up myself if I had an LTC, but well worth a look in terms of the sorts of offerings that are nowadays available

"a motley band of "InfoLadies," [who] are piloting a revolutionary idea – giving millions of Bangladeshis, trapped in a cycle of poverty and natural disaster, access to information on their doorstep to improve their chances in life.

excellent resume – not just of the barriers but of Michele's intended agile approach

A useful bundle of resources – albeit with a US-slant

"YouTube Direct allows you to embed the upload functionality of YouTube directly into your own site, enabling your organization to request, review, and re-broadcast user-submitted videos with ease. News organizations can ask for citizen reporting; nonprofits can call-out for support videos around social campaigns; businesses can ask users to submit promotional videos about your brand. With YouTube Direct, the opportunities to connect directly with the YouTube community are endless."
Possibly a bit high-end for some, but surely a channel for UGC to watch…;-))

"Tole-rants is a global movement to inspire hope about solving social problems. Rather than ranting about everything that is wrong in the world, tole-ranters speak from the heart about social problems, and point to potential solutions – in 60 seconds. The dawn of hope-filled, heartfelt communications is here. It's time to tole-rant."

"BigEars allows you to instantly create and run telephone based surveys or interviews. You create the surveys and view and listen to the results over our website, just as you might for a traditional web-based survey tool. The difference is that your respondents answer your questions by just talking on the phone -they don't use a computer at all."

"Southwark Circle is a membership organisation that provides on-demand help with life's practical tasks through local, reliable Neighbourhood Helpers, and a social network for teaching, learning and sharing."

"Tole-rants is a global movement to inspire hope about solving social problems. Rather than ranting about everything that is wrong in the world, tole-ranters speak from the heart about social problems, and point to potential solutions – in 60 seconds. The dawn of hope-filled, heartfelt communications is here. It's time to tole-rant."

"BigEars allows you to instantly create and run telephone based surveys or interviews. You create the surveys and view and listen to the results over our website, just as you might for a traditional web-based survey tool. The difference is that your respondents answer your questions by just talking on the phone -they don't use a computer at all."

"Southwark Circle is a membership organisation that provides on-demand help with life's practical tasks through local, reliable Neighbourhood Helpers, and a social network for teaching, learning and sharing."

social reporting guide by Tim Davies – excellent!

Useful summary comparison of business models for hyperlocal news. Wondered whether some of the alternatives, if cloned to ALISS, could prompt useful thinking.
Ht to Ewan Macintosh for spotting this earlier

"CarePages websites are free patient blogs that connect friends and family during a health challenge"

"PC problems caused primarily by programs running in the background, programs which in most cases are started automatically when Windows boots up. 65% of computer problems we solve are caused by such programs. Sometimes these programs are useful and need to be there; quite often, however, they are not needed, and in too many cases they cause severe problems, and this includes some of Microsoft's own XP, Vista, and Windows 7 Services ! These pages provide guidance on the usefulness or not of some of these background tasks, Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 and Windows 7 services, and Windows Startups, and removal procedures when recommended."

"The National Health Service (NHS) needs to save £15 billion to £20 billion over the next few years. This paper argues that these savings could be achieved through radical patient-centred service redesign and more effective approaches to public behaviour change. However, these approaches are difficult to develop within the existing health service. NESTA's experience of working with leading companies and developing projects in healthcare demonstrates that radical new ways of innovating that give genuine power to frontline staff, patients and the public are necessary to make these approaches widespread. This would unlock the savings we need and improve the nation's health. "

"his Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey is the first ever that examines the role of the internet and cell phones in the way that people interact with those in their core social network. Our key findings challenge previous research and commonplace fears about the harmful social impact of new technology:"

"many ISVs still treat their API as an afterthought or merely a “checkbox” on their project list rather than a core feature of their solution. As a result, APIs are not well designed or properly built and wind up costing both the vendor and its customers tens of thousands of dollars in ongoing maintenance due to infrastructure costs and the drain on engineering resources. After reviewing hundreds of actual SaaS APIs, many up to par and others distinctly subpar, it is clear that there are a number of common mistakes made when developing an API. Fortunately, each of them can be easily remedied by following best practices."