London Regional ICT Champion

The ICT Hub has asked the Telephone Helplines Association (THA) to ensure that very small to medium VCOs are aware of telephony options and their ability to access free practical and strategic information and local sources of support and make better use of telephony within their organisation. THA would like to identify what telephony experience [...]

Here’s a salutory lesson for all wordpress bloggers using third party web hosts – use the backup plugin within wordpress to make weekly/daily backups of your database downloaded to your desktop. When things can and do wrong with your blog – often through no fault of your own – you can’t always rely on the [...]

Web 2.0 – The What? The Why? The How? October 16th 6.00pm prompt start 6.30pm to 9.00pm   Sounddelivery and Cass Centre for Charity Effectiveness is hosting an evening exploring the opportunities presented by Web 2.0 technologies. Using case studies from within the sector the evening will provide a solid introduction to anyone considering taking [...]

Apologies for the late notice, SKILD (aka Skills and Knowledge for Local Development) is hosting a number of ICT workshops around the country aimed at generic development workers who come into contact with groups needing advice and support around ICT.  Fellow Regional ICT Champs, Mark Walker of SCIP and Paul Ruskin of Advice for Life, [...]

Do you have an IT project that has been developed with the help of IT volunteers that deserves a reward or does a volunteer provide your IT support and deserve an award as recognition? Don’t miss your chance to enter the 2007 national IT volunteering awards and win £250. Nominations close on October 6th. This [...]

Even Champs need time off. After a 2 week break to move house we’ve come back to a Burg Dubai tower sized pile of monitoring forms, newsletters, circulars, emails and RSS feeds all wanting immediate attention.   Never want to move house, see a paint brush, paint roller or watch a home improvement programme ever again… [...]