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 … [...]

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 [...]

Dad in a Hoodie! Not.

I was in a meeting in Hull this afternoon with Colin Harrison (Yorkshire & Humber ICT champion) when I mentioned that an event, a funding source or an relevant topic for the sector only needed to be briefly mentioned and it would be up on Colin’s blog before the end of the day! The blog [...]

Days, weeks, months …

Well I’ve done it!
Apart from the odd Twitter tweet and Facebook post to pass on Christmas and new year greetings I have had a two week break from anything ICT Hub related and indeed apart from swapping the PSU on my sons PC whilst back home from Uni, I haven’t really given ICT much thought. [...]

Where the link goes, nobody knows

It wasn’t meant as a challenge, but Tony Okotie, the East Midlands Regional Champion has been doing some research into alternatives to proprietary ICT equipment. It can’t beat the Bristol Wireless crew on price, but this is a brand new laptop from ASUS running Linux, Open Office and all the FOSS software you could want.
To [...]

Virtually at the High Peak of technology

One of the roles of the ICT Hub is to hold up shining examples of where technology is being used as a powerful force for good, but not to force that technology (or ICT) for its own sake.
As regular readers know I’m always on the lookout for infrastructure organisations such as CVS’ using new media [...]

ICT Hub events for all !

Last year some of you may remember the ICT Hub had a bit of a roadshow tour around the country with events in each region to get across the key ICT messages about planning, funding, local support, volunteers, accessibility, open source and new media, to give away our resources and to hear lots of good [...]