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 [...]

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 [...]

Browsing around

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 [...]

Sun, sea and suppliers

Before I forget and we move forward to the next week of hectic activity, I promised your Part 1 of this week’s two parter.
On Monday I journeyed down to the seaside to visit Mark Walker at SCIP in sunny Brighton …. which true to the title it was ! Clear blue sky and sun … [...]

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 [...]

An Event Full Time

Sorry for the corny title!
ICT is far from dull (well I would say that!), in fact the ICT Hub partner organisations and the Regional Champions are running a large number of National, Regional and Local events around the country over the next three months.
As well as a more general National Conference , Circuit [...]

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 [...]