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 [...]

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 … [...]

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 [...]

365 days later

It rather crept up on me without me realising, but today, after 365 days my blog has reached its first birthday.
Yes, I am a little surprised to have got to this point as many bloggers give up and at times finding both space to blog and subject material to blog about has been quite [...]

Show and Tell

In my email this morning there was a link from Helen at South Witham Broadband (part of the Community Broadband Network) to the website of the recent Silver Surfer award ceremony. In these Richard from Martley Mesh was awarded the prize for the Silver Surfer Entrepreneur of the year in the work he did [...]

Ruralnet 2007 - it’s all out there

Please help yourself.
There’s a great buzz at the Ruralnet 2007 conference at the Belfry, and its not just around the free ICT Hub guides - the buzz is around Web 2.0. The boundaries between blogs and websites have been well and truly blurred thanks to a session from Paul Henderson “aided!” by the East [...]

Old Skool

Its been nearly a month since my last posting on the blog. Hectic could describe the past few weeks, my work at NAVCA for the Hub has involved co-ordination and checking of the Regional Champions plans, their regional meetings and the other work NAVCA are involved with for the hub (SKiLD and the Unmet Needs [...]

The Regions - Home win. Sheffield United - Away win.

Thought I’d pull together a couple of blog posts from around the regions tonight.
Famous for its cathedral, Ely now has another outstanding landmark… The Advice for Life Space Shuttle! My South West readers know all about this amazing vehicle from its tour around the villages of that region over the past few years. Well now [...]