Tech for Good Live

A fairly standard pod this month where you’ll get to hear the team talking about, well, standards, from connectors to internet, they just can’t get enough of them. There’s also time to talk automation, charity crossovers with console games and that absolutely mind-bendingly misplanned Facebook VR event. Zuckerberg really is making it too easy for them. Things this episode: https://qz.com/1098441/o...

The ‘Pod’ this month was recorded LIVE at Wuthering Bytes, the digital festival with the best name EVER! Co-organiser of the Hebden Bridge based event, Tim Harbour joins the team this month, soldiering on with a particularly frustrating cold. The team discuss Instagrams erroneous definition of the word ‘low’, how you can help raise awareness with Shelter, AI doing stuff and how AR could actually b...

To quote Ben:   “It’s been quite feisty podcast, we all genuinely love each, and...whatever, I hope that you can get something out of this, I hope Paul can kind of resurrect something….”   Thanks to the brilliant and erudite Kirsty Styles for running rings round the team and taking them to task. You can find her @kirstystyles1 (damn you @kirstystyles for camping on the first of her name).   And a...

Laying waste to the team with his acerbic wit this month is Fritz von Runte, self-confessed friend and lover to music, UX specialist and designer. Fritz has made a name for himself as a vocal, and amusing member of the tech community in Manchester and is an advocate of ‘tech for good’. On the podcast, an analysis of stating the obvious over 205 pages and why Facebook sucks at creating shareable co...

This episode was recorded the night before what was to be the dreaded day of the election. Expect plenty of vitriolic rants about ideologies, members of the political elite and lazy voting. The team also touch on #grime4corbyn conclusively demonstrating their lack of understanding of the musical genre and destroying any lingering illusions of their ‘coolness’.If that isn’t enough Ben finally gets...

Joining the team this month is the the podcasts very own super fan (only fan) Charlotte Rushton. No stranger to digital herself she works for digital agency and startup Wool Digital, along with Ben White stand in, Ian, she’s dropped in at the deep with the team particularly distracted this month. At some point we think they talk about personal data, tap cars (not tap cats, yet), the hot topic of t...

This is episode 3 of our new series looking at the Abilitynet Tech4Good Awards. In this episode Mark Walker meets Billy Dann, Pontso Mafethe and Malcolm Spence of Comic Relief, who introduce the Comic Relief Tech4Good for Africa Award - an exciting new award that focuses on how tech can tackle poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. They explain how Comic Relief works with local communities across the regi...

Joining the team this month is the ever excellent Martin Bryant bringing his @TechNorthHQ wisdom and a pair of Snapchat sunglasses from SXSW (everyone loved them). Of course the gang were on their best behaviour, downloading the Red Nose Day swear jar app and testing it to its limits, brace yourselves for this episode. You’re also treated to the official podcast debut of the notorious #Ian who tak...

This is episode 2 of our new series looking at the Abilitynet Tech4Good Awards. This month we chat HealthTech LIVE from the BT Tower during the Tech4Good Awards 2017 launch.(www.tech4goodawards.com/) Bex (@rebeccawho) from Reason Digital’s (reasondigital.com/) Techforgood Live team (www.techforgood.live/) and Producer Paul (@paul_yakabovski) join forces with Mark Walker (@scipmark) from Abilitynet...

There was clearly something in the water this month as the team are a little giddy, perhaps making up for the anger last month. Don't worry though, they still rant and this time it's all about terminology, or it's miss-use to be exact. Not before we hear about the bleak outlook for charities, an interesting use of VR by @AnimalEquality and an NHS food app. There's also an update from one of their...

This episode 1 of our new series looking at the Abilitynet Tech4Good Awards. (http://www.tech4goodawards.com/) Bex (@rebeccawho) from Reason Digital’s (http://reasondigital.com/) Techforgood Live team (http://www.techforgood.live/) and Producer Paul (@paul_yakabovski) join forces with Mark Walker (@scipmark) from Abilitynet (https://www.abilitynet.org.uk/) who has been running the awards since 201...

This is the Pilot episode of our new series looking at the Abilitynet Tech4Good Awards. (http://www.tech4goodawards.com/) Bex (@rebeccawho) from Reason Digital’s (http://reasondigital.com/) Tech for Good Live team (http://www.techforgood.live/) and Producer Paul (@paul_yakabovski) join forces with Mark Walker (@scipmark) from Abilitynet (https://www.abilitynet.org.uk/) who has been running the awa...

Sorry for late arrival of 'this' months podcast, the team have been travelling the country doing their day jobs. Now they're back and boy are they ready for a rant this month, not that there's a shortage of material. On the agenda this month is the imminent introduction of GDPR, a ton of innovative fundraising tech from Cancer Research UK giving Greg the chance to go on about contactless again. Te...

The team are joined by the fantastic Graham Odds, Head of UX Design at Scott Logic and font of knowledge in all things relating to chatbots and AI. And that's the focus of this months episode, AI, or occasionally IA as the team struggle with 2 letters throughout the podcast. They cover the potential benefits of using AI and chatbots to help the NHS and the steps that are being taken already to ens...

It’s Christmas! It’s live! Nobody died, nothing exploded and some people even laughed...we think. For the first ever Tech for Good live podcast recording the gang discussed the extremely festive topic of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (DRIPA), also known as the snoopers charter. You can expect that one to get heated and it’s not even the rant of the month. To keep things a li...

This month the team are joined by the fantastically patient @frontendphil, here to impart his hard earned front end knowledge and managing to stay positive amid the somewhat chaotic recording techniques. It’s impossible to get away from the beast that is the US election and Tech for Good Live is no exception, with Trump as the hot topic of the month. They explore some of the better things to come...

We're calling this one the "Halloween Special" as the gang talk about blood more than is comfortably acceptable in normal circumstances. Don't worry though, they tackle some of the big questions this month like why did a despicable blood banking app win 2 prestigious awards and just what is a bin? Joining them is their second guest this month, Katie Shelly, service designer and creator of the fant...

We're a bit late this month but Producer Paul has been hard at work editing our ramblings and trying his best to make us sound good, an almost impossible task. Once again we'll be talking about cats, because you can't go five minutes in the land of tech without them popping up. On a more serious note we discuss accessibility and the Internet of Things, Stripe Apple pay and the new fiver. Bex takes...

There's a bit of a bumpy start this month, were the team seem to have forgotten they're recording a podcast, but they do eventually discuss the refugee crisis, some great uses of VR and where they think it's going. There's the always popular 'rant of the month' looking at why 'future proof' isn't what you think it is. Plus they make a start on the eternal question - just what is tech for good? Spo...

We welcome our very first and potentially last guest @fayscho from The Brooke to discuss fundraising with Pokemon Go and how to pronounce the word "lure" as well as the worst Kevin Spacey films. If you're thinking this went a little off topic, you'd be right. Not to worry though we do also manage to discuss match funding, the Facebook fundraising tool and there's the obligatory rant, this month it...

Dog's taking your money, why charities should be looking at Snapchat and political bias on news feeds without mentioning the referendum, we promise. Not forgetting the usual stat of the month and of course, some ranting, this time on the sharing economy.

Mobile phone myths, great fundraising campaigns, killing your Facebook friends and a rant on how we're not all marketing experts.