Great event for anyone interested in getting neighbourhoods online

I can’t make it but this looks like a great event for anyone interested in building and running websites for local communities. It will have a London bias but will be a fab event for meeting other people – check the guest list to see who’s already signed up. London Neighbourhoods Online Unconference, 2010, Saturday, September 25, 2010 from 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM.

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TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards 2010

Do you know a Digital hero who deserves £5,000? TalkTalk, in association with Citizens Online and The Daily Mirror, are launching the Digital Heroes Awards 2010 to find this years UK Digital Heroes. The Awards will be recognise outstanding individuals using the power of the internet to implement bright ideas which bring about positive social change. Nominations are open now until 30 September 2010.

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Channel 4 announces Young People’s Inspiration Week for

Young people between 14 and 19 aintereste din a career in the media are invited to apply to be part of Channel 4’s Inspiration Week South 2010, which will run in April.

South West Screen | Channel 4’s Inspiration Week South.

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Marketing and PR training for the third sector

Media Trust is running a PR workshop in Southampton and London which may be of interest to organisations in the south east. Planning Your PR Activities will help you develop a strategic approach to public relations, focus your activities on the right media to reach your target audience, make the most of your events and maximise coverage.

Both courses run 10am-4pm, cost £50 and are aimed at staff and volunteers from infrastructure support organisations.

• February 17 2010 – London
• March 17 2010 – Southampton

Full details available on the Media Trust website.

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Free Microsoft Training Resources

There are lots of free training resources available through the Microsoft site, as there are across the internet. Many can help staff and volunteers support themselves when using common tools, but which ones work best? Techsoup, based in the US, is running a free online training event/webinar (what an ugly word) at which Microsoft staff will guide you through what is available. It will take place at 7pm GMT on Wednesday 10 June – register at the Techsoup site.

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Conference for people who provide IT support to voluntary and community organisations

The National Circuit Riders Conference takes place at IBM headquarters in south west London on 9 June and is a great chance to meet and swap tips with people who provide IT support to the voluntary and community sector.

A Circuit Rider is described as ‘a mobile worker who provides ICT support and development to a caseload of small voluntary organisations and who works in collaboration with other Riders’. The UK network of Circuit Riders is linked to a similar network in the United States and the conference is open to anyone – paid or volunteer – who provides IT support to charities and other third sector organisations.

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EVENT: Outcomes monitoring and IT: finding the best solution for your organisation

M & E Consulting, preponderate.network and Charities Evaluation Services are pleased to announce the first-ever conference on ‘Outcomes monitoring and IT’ which will take place in London on 21st May 2009.

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FREE ICT Conference from Microsoft and NCVO, 6 May 2009

Tickets are available now for a free ICT event in London in May. Workshops will cover:
• E-learning tools
• Ensuring effective websites
• Delivering an e-campaign
• Technology supporting collaboration
• Managing your supporter base
• Accessible computing
• Innovation in service delivery
Book now on the NCVO website using the link below:
NCVO – Maximising potential through Information and Communications Technology

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Fundraising Conference – Bookings Now Open

The Institute of Fundraising Technology Special Interest Group has announced its fourth annual one-day conference, on May 14th in London. Howard Lake of UK Fundraising is the keynote speaker, with twelve seminars to choose from on Implementing CRM, Online Fundraising and Web 2.0, and Technology Management. Speakers include individuals from Cancer Research UK, Help The Aged, Tate, Medecins Sans Frontieres, JustGiving and Artez Interactive.

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Easy online forms for administrators

Ever wanted to collect sign up information for your event through a website? Want to have a spreadsheet with all the delegate’s details at your fingertips? Want to be able to download that information and use it again in the future? Sounds like you could use a Google Form, a great new tool that lets you quickly and easily set up an online form, and even embed it in another website.

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Nominate your IT Volunteer and win £500!

It’s your last chance to nominate your great IT volunteer in iT4Communities’ National IT Volunteering Awards 2008. Get your  nominations in by 19th December for any or all of the  4 categories: Best IT Volunteer, Best IT Volunteering Project – Innovation, Impact, and Accessibility. Each winning  organisation gets £500.

Nominate now  at http://tinyurl.com/itawards08  or call iT4Communities on 020 7796  2144.

Tags: scipnews, scipmark, ictchampion

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My other blog’s a big ‘un

I haven’t posted anything much here for a week or more, mainly because I’ve been so busy. So I’ve just posted a long entry on my other blog listing various stuff I’ve been doing in the past few weeks. As well as impressing you with the enormous range and depth of my talents and duties [?] it hopefully includes links to some useful stuff, including as it does info about: Regional ICT Forum; RAISE conference/AGM; Judging the Digital Media Awards: South;  Big Lottery Fund south east Helper Agencies event; Intellect Third Sector Working Party meeting; NetWeight/University of Brighton; Chain Reaction 08, and Social Enterprise Day.

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How Can VCOs Learn the IT Skills They Need?

I’m working on a Lottery-funded project looking at ways of embedding IT training in other community learning activities. So we’re teaching budgeting but it includes training in Excel, or we’re teaching report-writing and showing how to use some of the features of Word. We’re holding a free event in December to discuss what we’re doing and share ideas about to help people learn the IT skills they need. Full details below.

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Capacity Builders, collaboration and national support services

How can Capacity Builders make sure it’s big vision is successfully delivered through its network of services and funded projects? Perhaps the answer lies in one of the programmes it has funded?

NCVO’s excellent Collaborative Working conference on Wednesday included a presentation by Nigel Newton Sawyerr of bassac who is leading Collaboration Benefits, a three-year Capacity Builders funded programme to encourage the voluntary and community sector to use collaborative working as a way of reducing costs, improving service delivery and adding value to all organisations involved. I think this work presents an opportunity to share best practise amongst the key players leading the delivery of national programmes for Capacity Builders.

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Recruiting IT Volunteers

I’m working with Helen Snashell and Nigel Parrish at Isle of Wight Rural Community Council to help them recruit more volunteers with IT skills. I had a great meeting with them yesterday to plan a campaign for the new year, supported by Anne Stafford from IT4Communities, which has access to a UK-wide network of thousands of IT professionals looking for volunteering opportunities.

The link between local and national resources can be a very powerful one and I hope this work on the Island can build a mutually-beneficial model that can be replicated elsewhere, to support both local delivery and the excellent work of specialist national agencies such as IT4C.

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