“SURVIVE & THRIVE – A casebook of charity sustainability through technology” has just been published as part of Race Online 2012.
Download the .pdf document here.
We’ll be looking through this and trying to apply lessons locally, but I’d be interested to hear your own feedback…
Our WordPress training session is back. The next session is 9 March 2011 and will be held at West Marsh Community Centre.
The session runs from 9.30am – 12.30pm (registration from 9am). The session will cost just £20 per organisation attending (max 2 attendees per org).
Places are very limited so please book soon.
The session is a full morning learning WordPress in depth – enough for you to get started on building a first WordPress website for your organisation.
To book call Karl Elliott or Vicky Hardy at VANEL on 01472 231123 or email karl@vanel.org.uk.
Not come across WordPress before?
Wordpress is a blogging tool (quick guide to blogs here). It’s free. It can do a lot more than just blogging – whole sites can be built around it.
You can get a free blog/site in seconds hosted by WordPress, or you can download the tool (for free) and host it yourself for complete control.
Most of the VANEL Third Sector Hub websites are built in WordPress – have a look:
www.thirdsectorhub.org.uk
www.thirdsectorhub.org.uk/itnet
www.vanel.org.uk/compact
www.thrivetrustees.org.uk
www.thriveleaders.org.uk
www.neltsp.org.uk/regen
Or take a look at some other cool examples of WordPress sites…
Not got a website? Website tired & in need of work? Do you have little money but some time and willingness to get going yourself? Give me a call to discuss or get yourself booked onto this course.
there’s a Websites group here for further discussion
or a Social Media group here to discuss blogging
lots more articles on websites, blogging, wordpress etc coming soon.
Thanks. Karl
Mon 28 Feb 2011 / repeated on Thur 24 Mar 2011
2pm – 4pm
at VANEL offices, Melbourne House, Grimsby
FREE to attend for North East Lincolnshire based voluntary and community sector organisations.
Limited places – booking essential. (A £20 admin fee will be charged for non-attending bookings)
What is it?
what ingredients does a website need?
how much does a website cost?
how long will it take to build a website?
who needs to be involved?
how long is a piece of string?
can I get a volunteer to build it?
who should I approach?
what are html, css, php? should I care?
will someone do it all for me?
why should we bother?
If your organisation has no website at all or has a website that needs work, how are you going about getting a useful website built or rebuilt?
Do you have the money, skills or resources to get a website sorted out?
Do you need to know what you don’t know?
This 2 hour briefing/training session/workshop is designed to talk you through all you need to know about getting your organisation online.
We’ll look at the key ingredients and the different recipies you can use to build a website.
We’ll look at who you might need to get the job done – DIY, keen amateurs or professionals?
We’ll dispel some myths, give some tips, answer your questions and worries and point you in the right direction.
The session will hopefully help educate you further and leave you understanding what to do next.
Session delivered by Karl Elliott, Hub Manager and IT Network Manager at VANEL.
Limited space – places still available – book now.
Book now by calling Karl Elliott or Vicky Hardy at VANEL on 01472 231123 or email karl@vanel.org.uk
We have a new website – “MakingIThappen”.
It’s here : www.thirdsectorhub.org.uk/makingithappen
Why?
It’s about practical IT. Where we (you?) try out new IT or put ideas into practice we want to blog about it and share how we did it (or how it failed!).
So rather than just point you in the direction of resources, we’ll tell you how we did it.
It’s a series of documented experiments – mostly from VANEL, but also from a couple of other partner organisations. You might want to get involved too?
The January networking meeting for the IT Supporters Network took place at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre today. Good discussions held all round.
Lots of useful resources and links were shared throughout the morning and I’m going to be making sure that details are posted here so that attendees (and non-attendees) can follow up on the points discussed.
Just a few first comments from this morning….
Thanks again to Chris and Glen from Virtual Riders for supporting the event today (by both attending and funding the venue & food!).
For those who didn’t make it, our agenda covered…
IT Trends to watch in 2011 for organisations in the VolCom sector. In particular we discussed
Databases / capturing and using data
Cloud technologies
Collaborative tools
Social Media tools
We also learned more about Virtual Riders and spent a while too “cooking up a website” – discussing the practicalities of getting a website/online presence working for your organisation.
A lot was shared and needs following up from this morning. I’ll be posting it all here over the next few days so keep an eye out for it!
Next quarterly networking meeting will be 12 April 2011.
The quarterly networking meeting for the IT Supporters Network will take place on 25 Jan 2011 at Grimsby Neighbourhood Centre between 9am and 1pm.
The event – “IT Matters” is now being finalised. An agenda/details flyer can now be downloaded from here.
We’d appreciate knowing if you’re coming or not. Please call Karl or Vicky at VANEL on 01472 231123 or email karl@vanel.org.uk.
Free to attend.
Thanks to Virtual Riders for sponsoring this event.
Inspiring Voices celebrates the varied and inspiring ways that disadvantaged communities have empowered themselves with the help of digital media. The Media Trust is offering £500 awards to communities whose work is helping to give the community a voice through digital media. Deadline extended to 14 January.
Find out lots more about Inspiring Voices on the website here : www.inspiringvoices.org
The “Cooking up a website” training session has been moved by a week – previously mentioned for 10th Jan, the session will now be held on 17 Jan 2011.
Mon 17 Jan 2011
2pm – 4pm
at VANEL offices, Melbourne House, Grimsby
FREE to attend for North East Lincolnshire based voluntary and community sector organisations.
Limited places – booking essential. (A £20 admin fee will be charged for non-attending bookings)
What is it?
what ingredients does a website need?
how much does a website cost?
how long will it take to build a website?
who needs to be involved?
how long is a piece of string?
can I get a volunteer to build it?
who should I approach?
what are html, css, php? should I care?
will someone do it all for me?
why should we bother?
If your organisation has no website at all or has a website that needs work, how are you going about getting a useful website built or rebuilt?
Do you have the money, skills or resources to get a website sorted out?
Do you need to know what you don’t know?
This 2 hour briefing/training session/workshop is designed to talk you through all you need to know about getting your organisation online.
We’ll look at the key ingredients and the different recipies you can use to build a website.
We’ll look at who you might need to get the job done – DIY, keen amateurs or professionals?
We’ll dispel some myths, give some tips, answer your questions and worries and point you in the right direction.
The session will hopefully help educate you further and leave you understanding what to do next.
Session delivered by Karl Elliott, Hub Manager and IT Network Manager at VANEL.
Book now by calling Karl Elliott or Vicky Hardy at VANEL on 01472 231123 or email karl@vanel.org.uk
Here is a January offer from Electroville…
As you are no doubt aware, VAT went up to 20% on the 4th January. Definitely not the best time (if there is one) for the voluntary sector.
In response, Electroville is offering the EX VAT price throughout January on a range of services: IT support, Instant websites and Online surveys.
So you don’t just save the extra 2.5%, you save the whole 20%!
Visit the website: http://www.electroville.org.uk/ for details.
