Archive for October, 2008

Community Partnership Fund deadline looms

The imminent closing date of a new round of the Digital Strategy Community Partnership Fund on 10 November has set off a stampede of creative thinking. There’s no shortage of good ideas, though the $5.8 million available probably won’t be enough to fund everything being dreamed up. The criteria for funding means existing projects aren’t [...]

How much time for Facebook, etc?

After I submitted my article for publication on social media to “Fundraising in NZ” there were a couple of areas I would have liked to cover in a lot of depth: 1. How much time does it take ? 2. Where do social networks fit beside more traditional online communication using websites and email? I’ve [...]

IT advice for Taranaki community groups, coming soon

Community groups in the Taranaki region will soon have an independent source of IT advice and support. The ICT Gateway is being run by the Bishop’s Action Foundation, a community development organisation based in New Plymouth. According to the Gateway’s recently appointed coordinator Patrick Edwards, they’re starting out by working with three groups to get [...]

CommunityCentral sneak preview

On the CommunityCentral blog you’ll a find a sneak preview of the new homepage. After a demonstration at the NZ Federation of Voluntary Welfare Organisation’s AGM we’ve decided to let people see what the new web-based platform will look like. Over the last few weeks we’ve been doing a fairly intensive amount of usability testing. [...]

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