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Two more ICT Hub branded publications for you to get your hands on this week.
First, an ICT survival guide for Trustees full of useful excersizes and help in putting in place effective governance for the ICT of their organisations and secondly a guide to costing and planning to get more out of the telephony systems of organisations.
Miles Maier, the London ICT [...]

“Do you know a good plumber?”

Where do you look if you want to find an answer to a question about using ICT or if you want to find out what is an RSS feed or what are the latest developments using 3G mobile access as an alternative to broadband?
Where can you find someone to fix your poorly PC or advise [...]

Good News !

Couple of connected posts this week - which will probably only be of interest either anyone with a passing interest in Third Sector ICT (will we be officially moving to call it “Civil Society”?) or to anyone thinking “where is that “*****” Mr Webster when they keep getting my voice mail or out of [...]

IT’s the BASIS

Colin alerted me to the BASIS round 1 announcement that came out a couple of days ago.
Out of the £8.3 million awarded at least £1.4 million has gone specifically to purely ICT projects - not a bad start and of course there could be more hidden in some of the other awards.
A quick rundown from [...]

Sperical Objects

There’s a lot around at the moment about the 9 themes that Capacitybuilders plan to fund next year, so I’ll not go over that ground, however…
What amused me today is on the ThirdSector website there are two boxes, one a link to a quote by Mark Waddington of War Child - “IT is without doubt [...]

Tell me about it!

A post to bring together two stories about the ICT Hub and FOSS and our New Media work - you may have seen them already and might wonder why i’m linking to two blogs that don’t have 100% favorable things to say about our work.
Well the posts are out there so we certainly couldn’t and [...]

To the power of 3

You should blog whenever the urge takes you - when you really have a story to tell; well I’m currently sat squashed up on a crowded train heading back from London after a really useful, if busy day of meetings and conversations.
Firstly I spent a couple of hours with Miles, who is the London Region [...]

Did you hear the one about …

Like being at the pub or on the train where you overhear conversations, in the blogging world scrolling through your Bloglines feeds you pick up on others conversations, posts and good stories. So today rather than posting my thoughts (it would only be about the ICT Hub Ops Group meeting anyway, although EmTee did [...]

It’s only rock and roll …. but I like it!

Just a brief post to let you know The Watford Gap has not gone away, i’m part way through a rather hectic couple of weeks of regional visits and attendance at Capacity Builders events - Nottingham, Taunton and York last week - Birmingham, Preston, Taunton (again!) and Durham next week.
What’s it all about ? Well [...]

Destination 2014 or Destination Tamworth

Tony’s post over on Okotie World about SatNav systems got me thinking about various journey metaphors. Tuesday, I went to the first of the Capacity Builders Destination 2014 consultation events which was for the South East Region and held in Oxford, i’ll come back to the review, but on the way home my train [...]