London Regional ICT champion

What’s happening?
Join us at 1pm on 15 December 2009 @ Novas Scarman Contemporary Urban Centre Lasa, London E1 7SA for a networking lunch with members of LVSC’s STAN (Development Workers) and CASCADE (Information Workers) networks.
During the afternoon session we’ll be hearing a presentation from Mike Veitch on data mining and exploring what circuit riders, information [...]

Marcus Otite is an old circuit riding friend we know from his time in South London with Superhighways.  It’s great to see him back in the saddle, riding the west London circuit with Hillingdon CVS.  Marcus is the new sheriff in town after Mike Veitch and Jason King previously upheld the IT law in Hillingdon.
This [...]

Wales CVC Circuit Riders – new Circuit Riding guide published
In Computanews 151 we reported on what the Wales CVC Circuit Rider pilot project had achieved. They have recently issued a new guide to setting up a Circuit Rider project.
Download the PDF (512kb) here.

London riders network is a quarterly opportunity hosted by Lasa for circuit riders and others supporting non-profit technology to get together and learn from each other about the latest tools, tips and projects.
A big thank you to all of our guest speakers and riders for making this a great event to network and learn from [...]

Computanews started life in January 1984 as a Greater London Council funded newsletter, and twenty four years and 150 issues later it’s still going strong, and is now available as a free PDF only download (1.1MB)
In this special anniversary edition of Computanews we’ll be:

Celebrating 150 issues of Computanews;
Looking at how you can apply tools for [...]

It’s a bit later than we’d like to put the notes out from September’s meeting……A big thank you to all of our guest speakers and riders for making this a great event to network and learn from each other. 
 

CiviCRM – Michael Mc Andrew (Westminster CVS)
Salesforce – Nicole Aebi-Moyo (BOND)
How (and how not!) to run open [...]

Lasa is working with The City Bridge Trust over the next year to provide support to voluntary and community groups based in London on all aspects of ICT, elements of funding bids to the Trust and others. The project is also supported by the Wates Foundation.

Lasa can help:

increase the [...]

Calling London Riders
If you’re an accidental techie, a circuit rider or someone who supports the ICT of voluntary sector organisations in London  – this is the network event for you to connect with others in the field.  It’s FREE and everyone’s welcome – but please confirm your place at http://londonriders.eventbrite.com to give us an idea [...]

Today we’re rounding up resources from the 2008 circuit rider conference 2008.

Lasa has pulled together all the notes from the 2008 circuit rider conference sessions into a pdf file so you can read them on your non wi-fi connected train, the bus or wherever.
You can view the UKRiders Flickr Circuit Rider Conference set of photos [...]

The Web Office 101 or How to streamline your digital life or everything you ever wanted to ask about web office tools but didn’t dare ask…..

Thanks to Laura Whitehead, Paul Henderson of Ruralnet and John Kenyon for making this session fun and interactive with examples of the web office tools they use.

What:
Web-based office tools [...]