Stephen Blyth's Blog

With so many entrepreneurs and start-ups going gung-ho developing Apps for this, that and the other. And with gazillions of bits of web content created every hour or is it now every minute. You’d think I’d be able to find an up-to-date and useful list of meeting venues in Wellington. It seems every single time [...]

Just as I was about to sign-up for an hour long session on the new Google web analytics package, it struck me that I couldn’t make it. The presentation by Avinash Kaushik, a Google Analytics evangelist and trainer at Market Motive, will cover new features of the web statistics tool. He reckons the new customizable [...]

When I deliver a training package for the first time, I always expect a few wobbles along the way. Yesterday was no exception. I’m not entirely sure if I managed to demystify some of the processes on the Cycling Advocates Network (CAN) website or not. My workshop on getting the most out the CAN website [...]

I’d like to bestow my inaugural Award for excellence in community directories today. This is a personal award and doesn’t attract a cash or even in-kind prize. Just my gratitude. As part of a website writing project I’ve been working on I’ve scoured the country for online community directories. The aim is to provide a [...]

The creche our daughter attends is organising a novel fundraising event. Mix wind, exercise and play to create the inaugural Wellington Windwalk. It’s quite a walk from the Brooklyn village up to the lone turbine which frames the suburb. About 7kms return. But there are buses back to the start, for those struggling with the [...]

There’s always something that you forget to mention when you’re doing a lecture or presentation. I’ve just got back from running a guest lecture slot with students on the stakeholder communication and image management course run through the Unitec Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management, and realise I didn’t talk about creative commons (amongst [...]

I actually struggled to find the Downtown Community Ministry (DCM) page on Facebook. Being a Facebook absolute beginner I found all sorts of other ministries, mostly run by fundamentalist christians, before I arrived at DCM’s page. When I got there I found a very short description of what DCM do, an advert for the upcoming [...]

To accompany a second version of the Webguide (see my earlier post “Connect your community, again”) , Miraz Jordan has set-up the Groupings blog and is sharing round duties to keep it up-to-date. A small team of people working with community groups are contribuing posts. I’ve agreed to make the occassional posting as a guest [...]

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 [...]