Stephen Blyth's Blog

Last Thursday we ran a briefing for some web development companies interested in working on a project building a collaboration, information-sharing platform for New Zealand community groups. I’m working as project manager for the five national organisations behind the initiative. I was presented with something of a dilemma as I sat down to organise the [...]

Don’t throw out your CD-Rom just yet. Last week Nathan Donaldson from Boost New Media told The National Business Review about the popularity of CD-Roms and DVDs for distributing teaching materials. He is quoted as saying “When we started Boost in 2000 we thought CD-Roms were over and we’d never do them again but it’s [...]

The arrival of Lynda Hallinan’s weekly email newsletter couldn’t have been better timed. Every Friday in 2008 the New Zealand Gardener editor is sending out chatty gardening tips and commentary, along with news, competitions, recipes, and an ask an expert panel. Lynda has big plans for New Zealanders. This year her magazine has launched “a [...]

One of the hardest things about the constantly changing world wide web, and ICTs generally, is keeping up with myriad new developments. There is no shortage of information available but where to start. Miraz Jordan suggests one way for community groups to keep up is setting up someone within their organisation as a Technology Scout [...]

I was looking forward to finding out about some new websites when I saw this week’s Listener. “Strike the best sites on the internet” was the bold claim on the cover. Springing to mind were the 100 useful websites listed by the Guardian newspaper and the annual list of Webby finalists. Perusing both lists are [...]