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 [...]

Practice what you preach

Came up to London today to meet Jane Robbins from the CLG Digital Inclusion team (you must watch the video on the wiki BTW!). Lots to talk about, particularly on overcoming barriers to use of technology by individuals and groups. What stops groups using technology … is it fear, cost, change, scale, confusing terminology - [...]

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 [...]

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 … [...]

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 [...]

Hot off the press

As well as the ICT Hub events taking place over the next three months, expect a number of reports and publications that have all been commissioned and written to help computer users in the Third Sector make effective use of their ICT systems.
To get the year off to a good start, through Lasa the ICT [...]

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 [...]

Food for thought

Oh this ones a bit of a firework…..
This research report from GMCVO makes very interesting reading.
Hang on! Why is he blogging about a report that says new innovations in ICT aren’t one of the top priorities that the voluntary sector needs from it’s ICT (no watfordgap isn’t closing just two days after the first birthday!)
But [...]

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 [...]