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 [...]
Yesterday deja vu struck me as Environment and Conservation Organisations of NZ (ECO) hosted a website launch. In the same room as the new SeaNet was unveiled, three years ago ECO launched a similar webite focusing on the resource management act. The new website has been set up to “help people and communities and environmental [...]
On the same day I attended the CIMS project workshop with a smattering of New Zealand community sector leaders (see my post “Collaboration in motion – CIMS”), UK not-for-profit ICT enthusiasts, leaders and technophiles were participating in the second ICT Hub National Conference in London. Over the last four to five years the UK government [...]
If you want to look at an example of geninue collaboration you couldn’t find a better example of what’s happening under the working title of the Community Information Management Project (CIMS). I attended a presentation yesterday where the CIMS project was introduced to a wide cross section of community organsiation reps. At the end of [...]
“Aggregation, Alerts, Asynchronous communications, Archive, Authenticity, Avatars, Back channel, Blogs, Blogosphere, Blogroll, Bookmarking, Browser, Bulletin boards, Categories, Champions, Chat, Collaboration, Collective intelligence, Comments, Commitment, Communities, Community building, Conference, Connections, Content, Content management systems, Control, Conversation, Copyright, Crowdsourcing, Culture, Cyberspace, Default, Democracy, Download, Ego searches, Email, Email lists, Face-to-face, Facilitator, Feeds, Folksonomy, Forums, Friends…..” This is [...]
In 2002 when I was managing an upgrade of the CommunityNet Aotearoa website we put a lot of effort into designing the new version of the site so that it would be accessible to all users. Our determination to ensure the website was user-friendly to people with sight impairments or physical disabilities influenced the basic [...]
It’s always useful to keep an eye on the processes that funders use to allocate their money. This is as much the case with government funding as it is with grants from philanthropic trusts or pokie machine operators. It’s good to see that the guidelines for public servants allocating funding to NGOs has been made [...]
I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people that turned up on a wintry Thursday to attend the launch of the RMAlink website. The 25 people assembled were introduced to a powerful online resource that has been developed by ECO, New Zealand’s environmental umbrella group. The website is designed to make it easy for [...]
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