London Regional ICT Champion

If you’re someone who’s interested in using technology for non-profit, voluntary and community or third sector organisations – this is the event for you to learn about Google Apps as Stony Gronow of Third Sector IT will give a hands on demo and take questions about Google Apps. what are the pros and cons of web based [...]

Here at ICT Champ Towers we’ve been busy Google mapping ICT projects supporting London’s voluntary sector. In order to keep it to a reasonable size we’ve only included circuit rider projects, ChangeUp funded ICT projects and Netgain centres that we know to be serving other voluntary groups – so if we’ve missed your project, let [...]

In part 2 of the series, we look at getting started with online documents, spreadsheets and presentation tools. The tools reviewed here offer users great potential for cost savings, collaborating and sharing work with colleagues. What are these tools and why use them? The online document writers and sheetsheets reviewed here – Google, ThinkFree and [...]

The Google Grants UK beta programme supports organisations sharing Google’s philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts. Designed for UK registered charities, Google Grants provides free advertising on Google AdWords, to charities seeking to inform and [...]

It was almost a month ago that I launched the ‘Great Web Office Experiment. The aim was to discover if it was practical to stop using desktop software such as Outlook, Word and Excel and instead use only online tools to do the same jobs. My orginal hypothesis was: Online tools have the potential to [...]

Tags: Google, googleapps, thinkfree, zoho

Two days in to the Great Web Office Experiment , and it’s been just as hard as I thought it would be to kick the Outlook habit (which I had to resort to for one email to a large distribution list). Otherwise, it’s been web 2.0 all the way for email, contacts and calendar. Other [...]

From Monday 5 February I’ll be launching the ‘Web Office” experiment a 2 week trial of web 2.0 tools. Inspired by IT Redux’s Office 2.0 and the Dot Organize ‘Organizer’s Toolcrib’ of online tools, the aim is to find out just how easy or hard it is to apply online tools to my everyday tasks. [...]

In ‘Cool Web Tools’ I’ll be taking a brief look at services provided over the internet – things like RSS, video, podcasting and blogging – and showing how a small community organisation might use them to better share information and work more effectively. I’ve chosen the Google Calendar – the calendar or diary being the [...]