Virtually at the High Peak of technology

One of the roles of the ICT Hub is to hold up shining examples of where technology is being used as a powerful force for good, but not to force that technology (or ICT) for its own sake.
As regular readers know I’m always on the lookout for infrastructure organisations such as CVS’ using new media [...]

More Web 2.0 and some Accessibility

One for the CVS and LIO readers out there.
I’m always on the look-out for a CVS using Web 2.0 in an innovative way to reach their members. A number of them (such as Hastings VA) have blogs, however South Lincolnshire CVS are the first I’ve found using a Podcast of their newsletter.
The Knowledgebase has 10 [...]

Busy Bee

At the NAVCA annual conference today here at Keele and catching time to blog in a slight lull.
Yes its true, it is part way through the second day and this is the first real time I have had to post anything! The reason being that the ICT Hub exhibition stand has been busy with interested [...]

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 [...]

Full of Eastern Promise …

Big up link to Susie’s Blog tonight, issues such as Conservative Open Source, Lottery Funding and Jewelry are hot topics.
Also posting this here as we hear the final bill for the Olympics has been announced.
OK, we welcome and thank all those who have signed the petition in defence of funding, as the Third Sector element [...]

Crate Expectations

Sorry for the poor title of this blog post today … at least my sense of humour hasn’t been removed (yet) !
We’re moving offices ! As I sit here and type this our filing area / library is being (noisily!) dismantled, recycling bags are bulging with memos from 1997 and the photocopier is making its [...]

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 [...]

They’re all taking the WEEE

Fergal from the Northern Ireland ICT Consortium (like our ICT Hub I guess), who I met at the Circuit Riders conference blogged about this story from the BBC today. In my previous life I managed a computer re-use and recycling project in Mansfield - part of the Groundwork empire. Unfortunately the project had to close… [...]

Will the real watfordgap please stand up

Web 2.0 is wonderful - although I do laugh every-time I read the line in “Is it Just Me or is Everything S**t” that says “Web 2.0…. i’ve not finished reading the first one yet”!
Anyway, what prompted this was the news that in “Second Life” you can now donate money to Save The Children in [...]

Fishy Tales?

Well, I’ve confessed… owned up… had my first “group hug” meeting …. Yes, I met up with EmTee at the it4Communities awards ceremony tonight, it felt good to share stories of how useful blogging can be … and how inspirational blogs are (but please visit other blogs first to see how it should be [...]