London Region ICT Champion

We stumbled across this Wall Street Journal story on the 10 things your IT manager won’t tell you, whilst researching a post on IT security risks.

The tips cover tricks such as:

• sending large files
• visiting blocked websites
• running applications your organisation won’t install
• clearing your Internet surfing tracks

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TALKING TELEPHONY WITHOUT COSTING THE EARTH

Want to know more about telephony and how it can help your organisation? Then check out the dates below as a free telephony workshop is coming to a town near you this January.

York 7th January

Newcastle 8th January

Manchester 9th January

Derby 14th January

Birmingham 16th January

Ely 21 January

London/South East 28 January

Exeter 28th January

If you are a manager within a small voluntary organisation and are starting to get to grips with your IT but would now like to make to better use of telephone products and services, then this is the course for you. The course will help you to:

• Assess your voice communication needs now and in the future
• Increase your knowledge about what’s currently available that would be relevant to your organisation
• Save money with telephony and avoid signing up for services that just add to your costs
• Select the right suppliers – and maintain a good relationship with themI
• dentify ongoing sources of support and advice

 
You don’t need any technical knowledge to attend the course.  The course will run from 10.30am to 4.30pm and has been funded by the ICT Hub and will be delivered by the Telephone Helplines Association.

To book a place on this course, please call 0845 120 3767 or email training@helplines.org.uk

SUPPORTING VCOs WITH THEIR TELEPHONY NEEDS

It’s taken less than a month for the great British data loss fiasco - the loss of 25 million child benefit records by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs - to die down. With the data loss now off the front page, the Information Commissioner admitted his office was powerless to prevent similar data loss fiascos, the ex-boss of HMRC got himself a new civil service job, and DWP admitted it lost 40,000 housing benefit claimant records on an unencrypted CD. Continue Reading »

The December 2007 issue of the ICT Hub newsletter is now out in the wild and  looks at how technology can help you fundraise through social networking and raising awarenes.

As a public service, the ICT Hub December 2007 Newsletter is available to download from us as a PDF (75kb).  Also, in a change from the previous policy of making the newsletter available to email subscribers only , the Hub has made available a Word version to download from here.

Congratulations to all those who won awards or were nominated at last week’s iT4Communities 2007 awards. The awards recognise the outstanding contributions of volunteers to ICT.

Make sure you check out the links to these excellent projects.

Best IT Volunteer

Winner:
Gary Axford nominated by The Riverside Centre

Runners-up:
David Rogers nominated by National Phobics Society
John Stewart nominated by CHILDREN 1ST

Best IT Volunteer Project: Innovation

Winner:
Paul Campbell and Sevenoaks Area Mind

Runners-up:
Pip Jones and Community Base
Steven Bowers / Sally Grey and Berkshire County Blind Society

Best IT Volunteer Project: Impact on Organisation

Winner:
Tamsin Crothers and 1Voice

Runners-up:
Paul Campbell and Dawn’s New Horizon
Steph Gray and Greater London Volunteering

Best Accessible IT Volunteer Project

Winner:
Leon Gilbert and The Accessible Friends Network

Runners-up:
Geoffrey Walker and Leonard Cheshire
Robin Decadt and Coventry Society for the Blind