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 [...]

Inclusion and Justice … are you in ?

I’ve been at the Digital Inclusion 2008 conference today …. an event that I should have been helping David Wilcox and Dave Briggs live blog in words and video….
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Only by the blank space above you can see this didn’t happen! Apologies! The lesson I have learnt is that you can’t participate fully in an event [...]

Seeing Collaboration

Bit of a light bulb moment on the train back from the South West ICT meeting in Exeter today.
It’s not that I’ve just discovered what collaboration is; I know effective progress, visible development and meeting your aims, your goals or whatever, comes through working collaboratively. If you don’t believe me Clay Shirky [...]

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 [...]

Intertwingled

Its the word of the weekend. Whether Joanna used it accidentally or if its used all the time in Birmingham circles I don’t know, however I thought it summed up perfectly the way Social Media / Web 2.0 is being used right now. Incedentally the very word has an interesting history - if you [...]

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 [...]