Stephen Blyth's Blog

As an advocate of a DIY approach to creating websites, John Anderson is helping people in a really practical way. He’s teaching a short course on how to Build a Community Website. Coming up on 7 July he’s offering the course at the Global Education Centre in Wellington. Topics being covered include an introduction to [...]

I’m holding in my hands a hardcopy of the Webguide. The booklet aims to help Aotearoa New Zealand community and voluntary organisations get a web presence. I helped out with the contents early on, so I was really pleased to see it released earlier this year. In 94 pages it covers everything from beginning to [...]

When I visited the Community Sector Taskforce’s new website I actually had a few problems signing up. An RSS-feed was broken, I couldn’t find my profile to change a password and an unsubscribe email address didn’t work. These niggardly things were more irritating than earth-shattering. Thankfully within a couple of hours of sending an email [...]

When I opened my inbox earlier and saw a message announcing I’d won a $100 dollars I reached straight for the delete button. Bloody spam I grunted. Luckily I stopped just in time to see it was a genuine email. A few weeks ago The Listener was enticing readers to join a regular online panel [...]

Bravo for Claire Sawyers and the team behind the DonateNZ website. This site was the winner of the Community or Government website in the 2007 People’s Choice Netguide Web Awards. DonateNZ was launched in February 2006 to match people with stuff or time to share and schools, childcare centres and not-for-profit organisations who might have [...]

My mind is a bit foggy after three days in the sheltered conference land of government information system managers, IT policy makers and techies. And no, it’s not due to repeated use of the key ring pictured. I’m foggy because of the hyping of Web 2.0 and too much riskease. Murky from the vendors touting [...]