“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 [...]

Same old story … Not!

Do you ever go into an event thinking you’ll have heard it all before?
This was my thought as we got ready for the older people’s ICT conference today. This is the second time we’ve run an ICT Hub conference at Blackburne House here in Liverpool and surely ICT is ICT is ICT? Why is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Real life ICT in the Voluntary and Community Sector

If I was working in the private sector my OTE would be seriously dented after this morning, fortunately the work we do isn’t about closing deals or signing up punters - something which I’ve known for a long time, but something certainly the private sector … and I have to say something even within our [...]

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 [...]

On your marks …

Last week I mentioned the Olympic funding story. I’ve just been told an ICT provider I know in Lincolnshire has set-up an E-Petition campaigning to object to the way money could be used to meet the funding shortfall.
Please sign-up if you agree and if you agree strongly blog about the issue around the (out of [...]

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… [...]

… and the winner of the wooden spoon is …

Here’s a practical way collaboration could perhaps make a real difference in a practical way for the sector. If you need a reminder before this one slips too far down the “brain in-tray” check the original thread Susie started over on her blog.
NAVCA now have a strong viewpoint on this potential threat to funding and [...]

Chance to tell funders what to do !

Esther on the ICT Hub team at NCVO sent me details today of a tender document for work being commissioned to go alongside the “How to Cost and Fund ICT Guide” that she has produced. Whilst the Cost and Fund guide is aimed at explaining to small front line groups the total cost of ICT [...]