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 - [...]

Ahem ! Mash ahead.

Not even an excuse about being too busy to blog …. either a lack of motivation, nothing happening to blog about or laziness ! Actually I’ll stick with the ‘busyness’ excuse !
Not sure if this will be of interest to some people or if you already know about these, but there are people who like [...]

We are listening

Firstly to say hello to anyone now visiting this site either from the ICT Support section of the NAVCA website or the Capacitybuilders Improving Support website, also I guess if you are redirected from the old ICT Hub website which soon will be no more (get those publications from the old site while you still [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Your voluntary sector needs you.

With apologies to Lord Kitchener, but are you a Circuit Rider in the Staffordshire area?
Let me explain.
Firstly, I’ve not posted that the we have successfully completed the commissioning process to appoint an ICT Champion in each region. It’s taken a while but we’re there. There’s details and links to the champion’s pages on our website.
So, [...]

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 [...]

End of Part One

End of March already … and i’m apologising for no recent blog updates again. It’s not because I don’t want to, just a lack of time between family, work in the office and travelling around visiting all these great regional ICT projects… perhaps I should use twitter to keep in touch… still unsure about that [...]

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 [...]