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 [...]

Together in Electric Dreams

Was going to call this post “All together now”, but remembered Steve at Hastings Voluntary Action has already used it, so its a classic Human League track instead.

Whatever the song title the sentiment is still the same. Today - October 15th on Blog Action Day all bloggers and [...]

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 [...]

Money, money, money

Its a bit of theme it seems with blog posts … to be song titles. I do it occasionally, but nothing like at much as on the Hastings VA blog.
Picking up the title - firstly money for projects…
I was at the West Midlands ICT Network meeting today and the question of funding ICT came up [...]

Games with(out) frontiers

You may all remember the viral marketing games to raise awareness about climate change, saving water and third world aid that I blogged about last year - all good harmless fun and they pass a few minutes whilst you eat your organic sandwich and drink your Fairtrade Coffee (as an aside not, it would [...]

Old Skool

Its been nearly a month since my last posting on the blog. Hectic could describe the past few weeks, my work at NAVCA for the Hub has involved co-ordination and checking of the Regional Champions plans, their regional meetings and the other work NAVCA are involved with for the hub (SKiLD and the Unmet Needs [...]

That my friend is progress

Done!
Yesterday in glorious sunshine at the fantastic Genesis centre we held the last of the ICT Hub’s series of regional conferences - a point of reflection, but a time to look forward too. Since March 2006 we have visited eight towns and cities (Newcastle, Liverpool, Reading, Chesterfield, York, Cambridge, Walsall and Taunton) and welcomed almost [...]

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 [...]

The wheels on the bus …

We’re off here tomorrow for a NAVCA staff away-day, one of the main things we are looking at is the Every Action Counts programme and how we can all play a greater part in looking after the world we live in. I try to do my bit… checking the “1″s and “2″s on the bottom [...]

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 [...]