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 the […]

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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 […]

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The Wellington City Council has been committed for more than a decade to ensuring that the city is switched onto powerful uses of ICT. Wellington 2020 in it’s different guises has received core funding for much of the period from the Council, and will continue to do so in the future all things being equal.
The […]

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When I was chatting with Barbara Crump about the evaluation of the e-Rider IT service, she mentioned she was heading out of town for a conference.
Barbara is presenting a paper at the annual International Association for Development of the Information Society e-Society conference in Lisbon. The paper is based on her work with Eltahir Kabbar. […]

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On 30-31 October 2007 a range of people will be gathering to share all they know about using technology for social action and community building at the Making Links conference. A call for papers is open until 2 July for oral paper presentations, practical workshops and interactive multimedia displays, as well as referred academic papers.
This […]

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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 […]

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