Ross McCulloch

#Wordpress folks of Bluesky...we are hiring for a developer at Third Sector Lab. Remote (UK based) £35-37k You'll have the chance to build sites for incredible charities. Closes midnight 23 Nov 2025. www.linkedin.com/safety/go?me...

Happy Friday everyone.

What did I miss?

Tech for Good Scotland is part of Glasgow Tech Week 🎉 We have Steph Wright talking ethical AI and Eliza Ralph talking games for good today. Thanks to the Third Sector Lab team for helping make today happen.

Partnerships and Development Officer Third Sector Lab Full time or Part time £31,000 – £36,000 goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP...

Partnerships and Development Officer @thirdsectorlab.co.uk - a new role focused on developing programmes through project management, building strategic partnerships and growing income & funding. Full time or Part time, £30,000, Home based tinyurl.com/y4bbhzkm #development #partnerships #growth

Want to join Third Sector Lab as our new Partnerships and Development Officer? Applications close 24 May 🏃‍♂️ thirdsectorlab.co.uk/partnerships...

WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion users a month 📈 techcrunch.com/2025/05/01/w...

📅 Free AI workshop! Join David Scurr this Thurs at 11am for a friendly, interactive workshop designed to help you start experimenting with #AI. During the session - part of The Curve, from @thirdsectorlab.co.uk - David will share use cases, live demonstrations & free resources 👉 buff.ly/Dge3JV5

You have until midnight tonight to apply for our #Wordpress Dev role at Third Sector Lab 🏃‍♂️ thirdsectorlab.co.uk/jobs-full-st...

I'm doing some work stuff far too late at night and ChatGPT has somehow decided to create a lasagne out of absolutely nowhere 🤷‍♂️

We have Serena Snoad up next on Digishift to chat about decentralised social media and why it's critical to your charity's 2025 strategy.

Today's Digishift webinar has insights from @aliwalkerdavies.bsky.social on your 2025 charity social media tactics. Super simple. Super useful.

scvo.scot/events-train... For those of you wondering what on earth your social media campaigns will look like in 2025 and beyond this is going to be a must-attend. Free places for 26 March 10-11am ✌️

Technically this is not a pizza crunch.

Currently reading @peterhutchison.bsky.social

No thanks Darren.

🆕 Earlier this month, we attended @scvo.scot's The Gathering, as part of a panel & workshop session. The @thirdsectorlab.co.uk team have helpfully compiled a list of resources from the session, covering open working, web development, digital trusteeship, skills development & more 👉 buff.ly/4hZhwQZ

We're really looking forward to hearing from @njchowdrey.bsky.social and Valeriia Voschevska in our free DigiShift Q&A call next week! Details and booking here: scvo.scot/events-train... Hosted by @scvo.scot and @thirdsectorlab.co.uk

If SaaS brands were honest - Slack: Clutter your brain, not your inbox. Notion: Organize everything, get nothing done. Zoom: Meetings that should have been emails. SurveyMonkey: Ask questions, regret the answers. Dropbox: Store files you'll never look at again. - by Clemence Lepers on LinkedIn

What can charities learn from TikTok's list of creators making impact in 2025? variety.com/lists/tiktok...

Found some useful insights from the all-day digital conference by @thirdsectorlab.co.uk in Scotland! Check out the resources here: thirdsectorlab.co.uk/the-gatherin... Also, here's a short but interesting read on how charities can be more agile in their mindsets: teamtilt.co.uk/mindset-shif...

Help me choose a new laptop please. I currently have a Dell XPS 13 i7 - it's light and well built but it gets noisy, the screen is a bit too small and it only has 2x usb-c ports. I'm after: - 14" screen - Decent amount of ports. - Under 1.5kg - No touchscreen. - Windows. New or refurbished.

I just tried to bring up my train ticket on LinkedIn to show the inspector. It's been a full on day.

An update on the AI work I've been leading at @jrf-uk.bsky.social! I reflect on what we've learnt and share how tech and AI are shaping our ways of working, our understanding of poverty's dynamics, and our development of tools and communities working to tackle it. www.jrf.org.uk/ai-for-publi...

thirdsectorlab.co.uk/the-gatherin... Thanks to everyone who came to our session at #scvogathering this afternoon. Here's all the resources we promised - you will get them emailed out to you this week if you were at our session.

Hopefully see lots of you at The Gathering in Edinburgh tomorrow. Third Sector Lab will be running an afternoon session - with guests from SCVO, CAST, Tilt and Charity Change Collective.

For every jaw droppingly beautiful corner of Edinburgh there's a bit that looks like this. Loving the 'window upgrade' room in my hotel.

It's Third Sector Lab's 17th birthday 🎉 Robyn from the team is talking all things Open Working at Tech for Good Scotland today.

So who's coming along to SCVO The Gathering in Edinburgh next month? We will have a free session exploring digital transformation, training, sustainability and more for charities at the event. 120 people signed up for our session so far 👀

I am but a mere autist begging more clothing manufacturers to create nice trousers with a stretchy waistband.

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app called 'Flashes'. That seems an unfortunate choice of name. techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...

Wee lunchtime walk between meetings. Great to catch up with Charity Change Collective folks this morning.

There's only 6 places left for the 2025 Digital Senior Leaders Programme that I run for SCVO. If you're a third sector leader looking to make 2025 the year your org transforms its approach to digital, data and design - apply this week. scvo.scot/events-train...

All aboard.

Best Saturday ever?

Welcome to the Blind Boy Podcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social

Dunfermline Athletic's first away win of the season 🏁

The bad place has me listed as following two people. But I'm not following anyone. Maybe Elon and Trump are mandatory follows now 🤷‍♂️

Couldn't feel my hands but I really needed that cycle today 🥶

We build vehicles that weigh 9000 pounds with 1000HP, can go 0-60mph in 3 seconds and market them recklessly. We then ask people to wear construction vests to cross the street. This is all so beyond absurd and it's truly incredible that we've normalized this.

Family Action have bought Relate's counselling and central services - saving 185 jobs. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Monday right?

Other than football stuff I'm not sure if I miss anything about the thing that X became over the last few years.

Harborne knows what's up. The Discussion poster spotted in Birmingham, England. 🔥🔥🔥 📸 @ianwac.bsky.social

If you have a spare 90mins today, this is probably the most intense game of football you'll watch all year. The Premiership wishes it could produce games like this. Dunfermline v Falkirk 27/12/24 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026hgh

Make 2025 the year you get strategic with. Do it by joining a supportive cohort of other leaders - joined monthly by experts. I've worked with over 300 charity leaders on this programme. Applications close 12 Feb 2025. Cohort starts late Feb 2025. scvo.scot/events-train...

Submitting a funding application that has no save functionality and crashes on the final page. Excellent end to my day.

Tech for Good Scotland is back to Glasgow on 30 January with two excellent speakers 🤌 thirdsectorlab.co.uk/techforgood/