Digital Mentors

Who taught you how to use a knife and fork or how to ride a bike?
Did anyone go to a formal class to learn these skills?
How did you learn to use a PC keyboard or a mouse?
More than likely someone showed you how to do it, you didn’t enroll on a course and take weeks to learn [...]

Practice what you preach

Came up to London today to meet Jane Robbins from the CLG Digital Inclusion team (you must watch the video on the wiki BTW!). Lots to talk about, particularly on overcoming barriers to use of technology by individuals and groups. What stops groups using technology … is it fear, cost, change, scale, confusing terminology - [...]

Intertwingled

Its the word of the weekend. Whether Joanna used it accidentally or if its used all the time in Birmingham circles I don’t know, however I thought it summed up perfectly the way Social Media / Web 2.0 is being used right now. Incedentally the very word has an interesting history - if you [...]

What are you doing?

Twitter says “What are you doing?” ….. Singing its praises.
Like a lot of relationships mine with Twitter has been a bit on and off over the past 9 months or so.
I was going to ponder on an elaborate post - but that’s not what the New Web is all about - blogging is about capturing [...]

Not a paintbrush in sight

The ICT Hub tour rolls on…. Part 1 for this week will follow later. First of all Part 2.
Wednesday and its Birmingham, “A Wider Embrace“, or ICT and Voluntary Arts Organisations.
OK - what is different about ICT for arts organisations to ICT for any other type of organisation … Robin Simpson (CEO Voluntary Arts Network) [...]

What I go to school for

This could become a bit of a “Champs on Tour” following on from the blog entry that Miles posted last week.
Not surprisingly I have also been out and about, today at “Social Source South West” – a sort of “adopted-son-gone-South-and-once-removed” spin-off from the “Penguin Day” that in previous years has followed on from the Lasa [...]

You’ve got to be in it to win it !

Firstly a note (to self for reference at NAVCA later) and to readers who are interested in this kind of thing.
Conversations in the ICT Hub Cafe kicked off by Paul Caplan have now developed through posts from both David Wilcox and Laura Whitehead into not just the original thoughts about appropriate use of the best Social Tools for [...]

Dad in a Hoodie! Not.

I was in a meeting in Hull this afternoon with Colin Harrison (Yorkshire & Humber ICT champion) when I mentioned that an event, a funding source or an relevant topic for the sector only needed to be briefly mentioned and it would be up on Colin’s blog before the end of the day! The blog [...]

Days, weeks, months …

Well I’ve done it!
Apart from the odd Twitter tweet and Facebook post to pass on Christmas and new year greetings I have had a two week break from anything ICT Hub related and indeed apart from swapping the PSU on my sons PC whilst back home from Uni, I haven’t really given ICT much thought. [...]

365 days later

It rather crept up on me without me realising, but today, after 365 days my blog has reached its first birthday.
Yes, I am a little surprised to have got to this point as many bloggers give up and at times finding both space to blog and subject material to blog about has been quite [...]