You've heard of poetry slams, events where poets compete to perform the best delivery of orignal poerty, but have you heard of pitch slams? Innovate!100 is a new competition challenging start-ups to create the best pitch and compete for money, prizes, publicity, and the opportunity to be introduced to world-class partners and investors.

Global Cool, a charity that targets climate change by encouraging people to lower their carbon footprint, has a job opening!

This small, creative organization aims to tap the "trendy" sector of the UK and provide ways to make climate change cool.  They are seeking a tech savvy individual with a strong knowledge of social media and the ability to enthusiastically motivate the public.  The job duration is permanent, and the salary offered is £35-40k per annum.  Global Cool is based in Central London and this Manager needs to be in the office about twice a week, but can be based anywhere the rest of the time.

The job description, as provided by Global Cool, reads as follows:

Lasa, a nonprofit organization based in London, UK, provides strategic and innovative services to support the provision of expert independent advice to all. This Fall, Lasa celebrates its 25th anniversary of serving and contributing to the informaiton and technology sector.  The team at Lasa have hosted a few events to celebrate their anniversary, showcasing their work and sharing ways individuals and organizations can get support and services or even contribute to the work they do.

Learn more and celebrate with Lasa!

"None of us on our own can change the world, not governments, not businesses, not charities. We succeed when we work together."  That's the premise of Chain Reaction, an event that brings together social leaders, community activists, policy makers, business leaders, young people and people like you from around the globe to share learning and to generate new ideas for social change, locally, nationally and globally.

What's Chain Reaction?

Social Innovation Camp is back and looking for your ideas for web-based tools that could change something important. SICamps bring software developers and social innovators together for an action-packed weekend, 48 hours to take new ideas and put them into working parts.

Submissions are due by 7 November, so enter yours soon!

Learn more and get involved with SICamp!

I'm thrilled to announce that the London Net Tuesday is officially here!  The community in London and around the UK is ready for a solid, monthly event that brings together social changemakers (whether a nonprofit organization in the traditional sense, a group of interested citizens, social venture capitalists or an individual with an idea) and technological forerunners together to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate on new projects.

Join the fun!

The Hub at Kings Cross, in London, UK, is officially opening its doors today.  Social innovators, entrepreneurs, collaborators, nonprofit organizations, and other social good types are already filling it up and taking advantage of the other Hub locations.

Hub Spaces

As most of you know, I’m now located in London, UK and the community builder at NetSquared.  I’m really excited to be here and to connect with the nonprofit technology community on the ground in the UK.

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This summer, Dan McQuillan expressed a need for a NetSquared community in Europe. Four months later, web innovators and social changemakers got together at the Newman Arms pub in London to brainstorm the structure, goals and programming for a NetSquared group in the UK.

According to David Wilcox and Nick Booth's coverage of the night, William Hoyle, Steve Bridger, Steve Moore, Michael Ambjorn, Paul Miller, Simon Berry and Nathalie McDermott were part of the mix.

Sounds like a big focus of the evening was about how the growth and adoption of the social web can not only help nonprofits and NGOs with their work, but change their culture and structure as well.

David Wilcox writes:

"The focus of discussion was not just about how nonprofits could use Web 2.0: in fact Dan - who has recently left an international charity - went so far as to say "the Third Sector is broken" ... I think. I'm sure he'll correct me if that's an overstatement. While some people felt social media could help in fixing, others of us were more interested in the new set of values and ways of doing things bubbling up around social media, unbounded by historic notions of public, private and nonprofit sectors."