Next Thursday at least 125 people will be gathering to learn and talk about using the web for their not for profit organisation. The Engage Your Community conference is being held at Massey University in Wellington on 4 September. The organising team (pictured above) met on Thursday for a final wrap up. Despite the last [...]
The Engage your community mini-conference in Hamilton earlier in the year was a great day. About 140 people showed up to learn about and discuss how blogs, social media and other online tools can help community groups. Read my post about the presentation I made at the conference, “Wikispaces workshop notes”). Based on the success [...]
When I met Beth Kanter after having read her blog for several years she made a real impression on me. It wasn’t just her committed personal activism, wide ranging knowledge and willingness to share, so much as her phenomenal connectedness that struck me. Set loose on the keyboard and she connects with people, for just [...]
The first thing I noticed when I hopped off the plane in Brisbane was not the humidity but the air conditioning. Pretty chilly. It’s something I’ll have to get used to. Representatives from community groups meeting to talk about using ICT in communities are meeting at the Hilton. This means living in a sealed, air-conditioned [...]
At my hands-on wikispaces workshops at the Engage your community mini-conference on 22 April, a couple of participants raced into action and set up trial Wikispaces for their organisations. Wikispaces covering accessible parking, a walking school bus and the Otorohanga arts project went online within the 75 minute session. 75 minutes sounds a lot of [...]
In April and May I’m leading a couple of workshops at conferences for people using ICT in the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector. The topics are: “Online project management tools: making choices and making it happen” To run projects efficiently you need to keep track of minutes, tasks, share ideas and even co-produce documents. [...]
I was looking through the 937 photos tagged webstock08 on flickr to find the perfect one. I gave up because, despite the many historical references at the conference, I couldn’t find a single photo with the past in the background. I choose this one because, well, I couldn’t resist the Gruffalo (thanks to Titine who [...]
Don’t take my word for it. Even if I wanted I couldn’t cover everything to do with webstock. Lots of other people have written something about the 2008 webstock conference, and I’m sure there will be more. After all the other webstock conferences there has been some form of audio or video recording, so the [...]
At the two day 2008 Webstock conference last week there was so much information, some many ideas and rich jargon and hype, I grasped for a way of staying in touch with reality. To get away from the highfaluting, I asked people about websites they worked on or liked, plus some tips. Here are some, [...]
Yeeha!! I’ve just been awarded a scholarship to attend the 2008 Webstock conference. The 20 kick-ass speakers and truckloads of high energy talk and inspiration will cover just about everything to do with improving the standard of website design and development. Topics include information architecture, writing for the web (including a presentation by Rachel McAlpine, [...]
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