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This is a transcript from Lasa’s Hour of Technology Service via Twitter on 26th January 2011.  The event was held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ICT Knowledgebase, Lasa’s technology advice website. Below you can find questions and answers on topics such as WordPress themes, confidential live web chat products, broadband coverage, databases, data [...]

The Lasa ICT Knowledgebase is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, and to mark the occasion we’re excited to bring you our first ‘technology hour of service’ via Twitter (aka #kbis10). For the hour of technology service we’ve assembled a team of experts who have freely volunteered their time to answer your questions about social [...]

In this month’s bulletin we highlight celebrations for the tenth anniversary of the Lasa ICT Knowledgebase.  To mark the occasion we’re excited to bring you our first ‘technology hour of service’ via Twitter. We’ve assembled a team of experts who have freely volunteered their time to answer your questions about social media, websites, open source, [...]

According to a list leaked to the press, Capacity Builders is amongst 177 quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations) to be abolished by ministers. Capacity Builders is a significant funder of projects in the voluntary and community  sector, including 9 national support services and the Regional ICT Champions.   The leaked list reveals The Legal Services Commission, Legal [...]

TalkTalk, in association with Citizens Online and The Daily Mirror, are launching the Digital Heroes Awards 2010 to find this years UK Digital Heroes. How many winners will there be this year? A total of 12 Digital Heroes Awards will be awarded in 2010, one from each region of the UK, with 3 nominees shortlisted from [...]

Westminster InTouch has 60 free flat screen monitors to distribute to local orgs. Find out more http://bit.ly/925j7c Westminster InTouch is a new website pioneered by Westminster City Council and Training for Life to promote all aspects of ICT for organisations and individuals in the borough.

Development workers are jacks of all trades – part small business adviser, part marketing and communications guru, and part fundraiser – and  knowing the right questions to ask and where to signpost organisations to is crucial to building the capacity of organisations they work. With a squeeze on charitable on and statutory funding,  development workers [...]

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Martha Lane Fox, the Government’s newly appointed digital inclusion champion, has urged charitable foundations to award more grants to charities for their core functions and IT. In an interview to mark the announcement of Government’s Race Online 2012 initiative, intended to bring four million more people online by the time the London Olympic Games begin, [...]

The latest issue of Lasa’s Computanews magazine is now available to download as a free PDF (1.5mb). Computanews provides straightforward information on the use of ICT (information and communications technology) for staff in small to medium sized voluntary organisations. Sign up In this issue: Project management – let’s work together – project management methodologies abound, [...]

In this London ICT e-bulletin for January 2010 we round up the latest ICT news, events, funding, tools, tips and resources for staff in small to medium-sized voluntary organisations.  Don’t forget you can receive the bulletin via email and join in the discussions over at the Knowledgebase Forums. ict news New decade of technology, data [...]