It wasn’t exactly hidden in the fineprint. The guidelines for running a mini-conference session clearly included something called a back-up plan. Most of my other classmates on the Facilitating Online Communities (FO09) course referred to some sort of alternative should things go astray during their session. Based on intermittent access to Elluminate, the online learning [...]
Not all the resources I’ll be taking along to share at the workshop I’m leading at the Engage your community conference on Friday 13 November are actually finished. My copy of a “Website owner’s manual: the secret to successful websites” by Paul Boag is available online as an unedited draft. It comes as an e-book [...]
It’s a busy time in the community ICT world here in Wellington. I thought I’d share details of some of the things that are happening soon. e-day, 12 September 2009: annual collection of unwanted computers and other electronic equipment (or e-waste as it’s known in the trade). There is a drop-off point in Wellington, one [...]
In the list of websites in the photo above you’ll find the curious saying ‘browse like a sheep’. Doug, a tutor at WelTech, didn’t share a favourite, interactive website during our round of introductions. Instead he described his appetite for websites in these omnivorous terms. I was reassured to see that people still surf the [...]
Most of the activist and grassroots community organising I’ve been part of has struggled with some of the basics. It was something that took up a surprising amount of effort. Where are going to meet? Are there enough chairs? Can we make a cuppa after the meeting? I don’t remember a time we ever had [...]
I’m finding lots of distractions as I try to finish a write-up about the presentation I gave at the Connecting Up 09 conference yesterday. Straight in front of me is this green void – “a digital design drived from nature realized in lightweight frabric using the latest digital fabrication and engineering techniques, creating more with [...]
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