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Entries from July 2007

Bring out yer dead

July 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Community ICT projects, Wellington

I’ll definitely bring out my dead for the eDay coming up on 29 September. Dumped in forgotten corners around the house we’ve got three ancient laptops with barely a flicker of life between the three of them.
A lot of people got into the spirit of things at last years eDay in September 2006 when 50 [...]

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Laptops in hospices launched

July 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Aotearoa New Zealand, Community ICT projects

Having sat through many updates about theWhanau Link project at Wellington Region 2020 Communications Trust meetings, I was delighted to join with fellow Trustees and Wellington 2020 staff at the launch of the expanded Whanau Link project on 25 July.
Now a total of six hospices in the lower North Island have laptops available for [...]

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One year on The Couch evaluation

July 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Aotearoa New Zealand, The Couch, Websites

According to website 101 advice, regular evaluation of your website is imperative, so is making incremental changes. As June Cohen says in The Unusually Useful Web Book “you launch the site, study how it’s used, and make continual changes to improve it”. Yet as evaluation takes time and effort it’s not always completed in [...]

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Tech exec share youthful insights

July 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Aotearoa New Zealand, Our future

Technology is going to take over.
Technology is going to be everywhere – embrace it!
Internet is vital nowdays, just like water, food and shelter.
These are just a few of the comments about the technology in the future from some members of the Wellington-based Tech Exec. The Tech Exec are a group of senior high school students [...]

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