Presentation for third sector development workers. To raise awareness of the increasing potential for ICT and information on issues groups should consider when using ICT (planning, policies, support contracts).
Also information on sources of funding and local support so groups can explore the barriers created by ICT for some members
Presentation to staff interested in promoting digital inclusion for older people.
Given by Get Digital programme delivery team in a number of locations in England during February March 2011.
The Central Highlands Digital Enterprise program ran a Farming in the 21st Century workshop for Pyrenees farmers. The workshop covered technology and apps used to farm more efficiently, and introduced farmer's to the Twitter site 'AgChatOZ'.
Presentation for third sector development workers. To raise awareness of the increasing potential for ICT and information on issues groups should consider when using ICT (planning, policies, support contracts).
Also information on sources of funding and local support so groups can explore the barriers created by ICT for some members
Presentation to staff interested in promoting digital inclusion for older people.
Given by Get Digital programme delivery team in a number of locations in England during February March 2011.
The Central Highlands Digital Enterprise program ran a Farming in the 21st Century workshop for Pyrenees farmers. The workshop covered technology and apps used to farm more efficiently, and introduced farmer's to the Twitter site 'AgChatOZ'.
Presentation about Knowledge Hub on what it is, the benefits and who's using it. Presented by Liz Copeland at Really Useful Day: Social media for councils in London on 6 February 2015.
These are slides taken from the Digital Catapult's Integration of Health and Social Care Pit Stop, where innovators, SMEs, entrepreneurs gathered to solve health and social care issues.
Implementing Sustainable Digital Preservationneilgrindley
There has been a lot of investment and activity in digital preservation over the last decade and a lot of it has been supported by grant funded activity and research projects. The ‘learn by doing’ approach and the prodigious number of beta systems and project reports have all played their part in helping to mature the digital preservation field - and judging by the changing tone of conferences over the years, the community has come a long way. So far - in fact - that a lot of organisations are now at the stage when theory is less important than action. They need to work out the best implementation paths and make procurement choices.
So the economic landscape for digital preservation has shifted and the onus is now on many organisations to look closely at their needs and their objectives and to make investment choices that are sustainable as part of the business needs of their organisation rather than as an adjunct activity that is supported by ‘soft’ research money. Work being taken forward by the 4C Project is looking at providing resources to support organisations to make sustainable digital preservation investment choices and this webinar will describe some of that work.
But budgets are hard to secure and digital preservation remains a difficult case to argue so collaboration with like-minded organisations and the establishment of shared services should support the arguments and drive down the cost. This is one of the core messages that underpins the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) initiative and this will also be described and explained during the webinar.
My sCool Server Brochure - Portrait layoutShrenik Bhura
A brief introduction to Recherche Tech and our flagship product, the My sCool Server - Linux powered teaching solution.
Recherche Tech, with its My sCool Server offering aims to usher in a socioeconomic revolution by making computer literacy and therefore digital inclusion affordable and achievable across the social strata.
My sCool Server is a device, primarily for school labs, that makes all computers in the wired network usable and useful instantly.
It is the next generation in computing and learning convenience. It has been custom built and packaged, keeping in mind the challenges faced by schools and students in the ever evolving, fast-paced literary landscape.
It is an optimised combination of hardware and software built upon proven technologies that our core team has command over for more than 20 man years.
Herein are some of the advantages that the MSS presents to its users:
A1 No knowledge of installing, configuring, or updating Linux required. The teaching process can start immediately in conjunction with the textbook content.
A2 Broadcast lessons to each student's desk. Close monitoring, one-to-one communication and attention to every student's progress is possible.
A3 Extends lifespan of existing systems. Save on power and AMC. Channelise funds to infrastructure and training activities.
A4 Now buy many more end user systems for the same budget. Laboratories can be re-laid to accommodate more machines.
A5 Helps create live copies of the Linux OS and applications to practice the lessons at home and explore Linux completely.
A6 Requires no installation of any additional modules or purchasing custom client hardware from a particular vendor.
A7 An integrated platform to host training web-content offline. No internet required to access 5000+ world-class audio-visual resources.
A8 Restore the MSS to its fully functional state with a few button presses without complicated re-installation or re-configuration steps.
A9 No limitations of users who can use the MSS. Delivering high productivity and promoting creativity is the only mission.
A10 Teacher can work in Windows OS and yet simultaneously monitor the students over the Linux environment.
A11 The technologies comprising the product are proven the world across. Recherche team has 20+ man years of open source solutioning expertise.
A12 Internet is rapidly reaching to each corner of the country. MSS is designed to meet the future needs of secure internet access and sharing.
To know more, visit http://www.myscoolserver.com .
Freeware for Community Groups - MeredithChris Elliott
Cloud-based Freeware for Community Groups. Introductory presentation to Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote with a focus on community groups. This presentation was held on 16 June 2014 at the Meredith Community Centre as part of the Central Highlands Digital Enterprise (DigiBiz), Federation University Australia.
Knowledge Management Australia 2015: The Discovery and Re-Discovery of Knowledge
4-6 August 2015, Rydges Melbourne
Two-day Connected Congress and Six Post-Forum Workshops
http://www.kmaustralia.com
The New Face of Knowledge Management
Leaders for KM Australia 2015
Cirque De Soleil - Canada
Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business,
Westminister College – USA
Bill Kaplan, Founder and Principal,
Working KnowledgeCSP LLC – USA
Department of Economic Development, Jobs,
Transport and Resources
Birchip Cropping Group
Intelligent Answers
Innosis
University of Southern Queensland
Karingal
Australian Securities & Investment Commission
Institute of Public Administration Australia
ANZ Bank
Social Media Navigator
Microsoft
State Trustees
Woods Bagot
University of Melbourne
JLT Australia
On 13 July 2018 we facilitated a workshop in partnership with Sheffield City Council to bring together people from the digital and community sector.
This is People domain of the Sheffield Digital Coalition (dotSHF).
Slides for a presentation on Tackling Digital Exclusion delivered at an event hosted at University of the West of Scotland on Wednesday 24th January 2018.
Intranet Change
One-day interactive forum, site visit and workshop
28-29 May 2013, Brisbane, Queensland, $995 plus gst to attend
http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-E061Intranets.htm
Leave this highly interactive forum with new perspectives on how to connect, communicate and collaborate in your intranet redesign
This interactive forum will demonstrate how, through redesign, you can implement an intranet that will transform the way your organisation operates.
You will hear about:
* Building and presenting a business case to secure support for intranet projects
* Executing an intranet strategy and governance
* Conducting user research to ensure that the intranet remains fit for purpose
* Developing a collaborative culture through social media technology
* Best practice guide on developing information architecture
* Overcoming challenges for intranet change in a large organisation
PLUS: A Post Forum Site Visit
(Limited to 12 participants)
Intranet site visit to Oakton: Intranets on the move
About the Site Visit:
* The journey of building a social and collaboration intranet called Ozone
* Live intranet demonstrations of the key features of Ozone
* Information Architecture of Ozone
* Demonstration of the intranet’s mobility
* Lessons learned and ROI to date
University of Southern Queensland,Qantas,Sinclair Knight Merz,Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (SA), Deloitte, REA Group, Olam
Department of Housing and Public Works, Queensland University of Technology, InfoRED Consulting, Oakton
Some recommended social media groups:
Intranets Asia Pacific Linked In
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3191639
Document and Records Management
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Document-Records-Management-2405147?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
SharePoint Asia Pacific
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3744113&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
Presentation about Knowledge Hub on what it is, the benefits and who's using it. Presented by Liz Copeland at Really Useful Day: Social media for councils in London on 6 February 2015.
These are slides taken from the Digital Catapult's Integration of Health and Social Care Pit Stop, where innovators, SMEs, entrepreneurs gathered to solve health and social care issues.
Implementing Sustainable Digital Preservationneilgrindley
There has been a lot of investment and activity in digital preservation over the last decade and a lot of it has been supported by grant funded activity and research projects. The ‘learn by doing’ approach and the prodigious number of beta systems and project reports have all played their part in helping to mature the digital preservation field - and judging by the changing tone of conferences over the years, the community has come a long way. So far - in fact - that a lot of organisations are now at the stage when theory is less important than action. They need to work out the best implementation paths and make procurement choices.
So the economic landscape for digital preservation has shifted and the onus is now on many organisations to look closely at their needs and their objectives and to make investment choices that are sustainable as part of the business needs of their organisation rather than as an adjunct activity that is supported by ‘soft’ research money. Work being taken forward by the 4C Project is looking at providing resources to support organisations to make sustainable digital preservation investment choices and this webinar will describe some of that work.
But budgets are hard to secure and digital preservation remains a difficult case to argue so collaboration with like-minded organisations and the establishment of shared services should support the arguments and drive down the cost. This is one of the core messages that underpins the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) initiative and this will also be described and explained during the webinar.
My sCool Server Brochure - Portrait layoutShrenik Bhura
A brief introduction to Recherche Tech and our flagship product, the My sCool Server - Linux powered teaching solution.
Recherche Tech, with its My sCool Server offering aims to usher in a socioeconomic revolution by making computer literacy and therefore digital inclusion affordable and achievable across the social strata.
My sCool Server is a device, primarily for school labs, that makes all computers in the wired network usable and useful instantly.
It is the next generation in computing and learning convenience. It has been custom built and packaged, keeping in mind the challenges faced by schools and students in the ever evolving, fast-paced literary landscape.
It is an optimised combination of hardware and software built upon proven technologies that our core team has command over for more than 20 man years.
Herein are some of the advantages that the MSS presents to its users:
A1 No knowledge of installing, configuring, or updating Linux required. The teaching process can start immediately in conjunction with the textbook content.
A2 Broadcast lessons to each student's desk. Close monitoring, one-to-one communication and attention to every student's progress is possible.
A3 Extends lifespan of existing systems. Save on power and AMC. Channelise funds to infrastructure and training activities.
A4 Now buy many more end user systems for the same budget. Laboratories can be re-laid to accommodate more machines.
A5 Helps create live copies of the Linux OS and applications to practice the lessons at home and explore Linux completely.
A6 Requires no installation of any additional modules or purchasing custom client hardware from a particular vendor.
A7 An integrated platform to host training web-content offline. No internet required to access 5000+ world-class audio-visual resources.
A8 Restore the MSS to its fully functional state with a few button presses without complicated re-installation or re-configuration steps.
A9 No limitations of users who can use the MSS. Delivering high productivity and promoting creativity is the only mission.
A10 Teacher can work in Windows OS and yet simultaneously monitor the students over the Linux environment.
A11 The technologies comprising the product are proven the world across. Recherche team has 20+ man years of open source solutioning expertise.
A12 Internet is rapidly reaching to each corner of the country. MSS is designed to meet the future needs of secure internet access and sharing.
To know more, visit http://www.myscoolserver.com .
Freeware for Community Groups - MeredithChris Elliott
Cloud-based Freeware for Community Groups. Introductory presentation to Dropbox, Google Drive and Evernote with a focus on community groups. This presentation was held on 16 June 2014 at the Meredith Community Centre as part of the Central Highlands Digital Enterprise (DigiBiz), Federation University Australia.
Knowledge Management Australia 2015: The Discovery and Re-Discovery of Knowledge
4-6 August 2015, Rydges Melbourne
Two-day Connected Congress and Six Post-Forum Workshops
http://www.kmaustralia.com
The New Face of Knowledge Management
Leaders for KM Australia 2015
Cirque De Soleil - Canada
Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business,
Westminister College – USA
Bill Kaplan, Founder and Principal,
Working KnowledgeCSP LLC – USA
Department of Economic Development, Jobs,
Transport and Resources
Birchip Cropping Group
Intelligent Answers
Innosis
University of Southern Queensland
Karingal
Australian Securities & Investment Commission
Institute of Public Administration Australia
ANZ Bank
Social Media Navigator
Microsoft
State Trustees
Woods Bagot
University of Melbourne
JLT Australia
On 13 July 2018 we facilitated a workshop in partnership with Sheffield City Council to bring together people from the digital and community sector.
This is People domain of the Sheffield Digital Coalition (dotSHF).
Slides for a presentation on Tackling Digital Exclusion delivered at an event hosted at University of the West of Scotland on Wednesday 24th January 2018.
Intranet Change
One-day interactive forum, site visit and workshop
28-29 May 2013, Brisbane, Queensland, $995 plus gst to attend
http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-E061Intranets.htm
Leave this highly interactive forum with new perspectives on how to connect, communicate and collaborate in your intranet redesign
This interactive forum will demonstrate how, through redesign, you can implement an intranet that will transform the way your organisation operates.
You will hear about:
* Building and presenting a business case to secure support for intranet projects
* Executing an intranet strategy and governance
* Conducting user research to ensure that the intranet remains fit for purpose
* Developing a collaborative culture through social media technology
* Best practice guide on developing information architecture
* Overcoming challenges for intranet change in a large organisation
PLUS: A Post Forum Site Visit
(Limited to 12 participants)
Intranet site visit to Oakton: Intranets on the move
About the Site Visit:
* The journey of building a social and collaboration intranet called Ozone
* Live intranet demonstrations of the key features of Ozone
* Information Architecture of Ozone
* Demonstration of the intranet’s mobility
* Lessons learned and ROI to date
University of Southern Queensland,Qantas,Sinclair Knight Merz,Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (SA), Deloitte, REA Group, Olam
Department of Housing and Public Works, Queensland University of Technology, InfoRED Consulting, Oakton
Some recommended social media groups:
Intranets Asia Pacific Linked In
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3191639
Document and Records Management
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Document-Records-Management-2405147?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
SharePoint Asia Pacific
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3744113&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
Christophe's Vergult, Director Customer experience research at InSites Consulting gave a presentation at the B2B Conference (Roularta-Stichting Marketing) on 18 March 2008. Topic was challenges when wanting to deliver compelling customer experience in B2B markets. This is his presentation.
ICT for development workers or those building capacity of non-profit organisations.
Delivered as part of SKILD programme for NAVCA.
www.navca.org.uk/services/learningopps/skild/
These slides support a one day workshop designed to help community development workers help meet the needs of community groups
Please contact me for details of how it can be delivered in your area [UK-wide]
Is your ICT at risk - risk assessments
Fight the big byte - plan and budget
Save time and money - top tips on free and low cost ICT solutions
Know where to go for help and support
The Regional Strategic Cross-Sector Partnership is an opportunity to explain what is going on in the third sector and look for links in other sectors. This set of slides provides an overview of the regional third sector ICT strategy and in particular look at how the regional ICT Champion's role is helping to develop the harness the skills offered by volunteers with IT skills
Managing ICT well is no different to managing organisations or teams. You need to take care of people, money, physical resources and services and set the right environment and tone.
If you don’t, you won’t get the benefits (and if you don’t when time are tough – then organisations will fail)
A presentation to the ChangeUp Coordinators from the south eats of England, proposing astrategy for developing ICT support servicesfor frontline organisaton from across the region
Presented in London on 2 April 2008 by Mark Walker, Regional ICT Champion
Presentation to the Cornwall Charity Club meeting on 19th May 2010 at Truro College - looking at how organisations improve their use of digital marketing and media.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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Editor's Notes
** Background to Regional Champions – 5 mins
Introductions from each person Invite the group to reflect on their feelings about the recession and how it will affect their organisations – and those which they support. What are the key issues which will be faced in the years ahead? Cuts in funding, staff, resources, partnerships? How can ICT help to improve things in this scenario?
The objectives of the day. Emphasis on “not designed to turn you in to a techie!” Will look at the issues you are facing and provide sign posting to areas of advice and assistance
A look at what you get asked and how to deal with these enquiries through signposting etc.
Working in pairs: 10 mins Yellow Post-It – Client Questions / Colour2 Post-It Personal Questions Or Tell delegates to write client or personal at top of each note Cluster on wall Common themes Key questions Which will be answered today Is there a different way to answer them? Review later on.
Highlight what is out there Explain briefly the roles of Champions/Consortia The concept of Circuit Rider and ICT Development Workers The role that Providers of Infrastructure Support Services can play The role that volunteers can play – including it4communities Talk about the HELP CARD REFERENCE KITS The help that is available from the Private Sector it is not all bad We will return to the sources of help at the end of the session – please feel free to add your own experiences as we go through the day – good local sources of support? Recommendations from your work with other organisations and businesses?
What is it good for? Record them – lets share those URLS! Flip Chart – Some one write them down
So why are we doing it? Ask delegates if they have any examples where ICT usage has made a project More Efficient More Effective Made storage of/use of/dissemination of information better/easier Where it has improved communications, improved effectiveness of an event, added a new dimension to an annual report Made admin quicker/easier/ less stressful
Start looking at how to budget for ICT COSTS do not stop with the purchase of the equiopment
Guidelines Delegates are given a scenario and a ‘TCO Calculator’ and are required to start the process of budgeting for the ICT element of the project using materials taken from A Guide To Managing ICT by Mark Walker and produced by NCVO (Page 19) Split into 2 groups Budget lines Feedback how realistic their figures were. Are these OK for the groups they work with?
How realistic were your figures? Did you include all of these headings? Did you have other headings or important items? How do these compare with the groups which you have worked with?
How does ICT get funded in development work? What do funders think? Locally and nationally What gets funded? What doesn’t? Can anything be changed? What can WE do? LIST POSITIVES ON FLIP CHART. e.g. Be realistic: Promote benefits: Include skills: Don’t need detailed planning: Formula e.g.1000 for PC looks dodgy. HAND OUT “HOW TO COST AND FUND” GUIDE
Encourage people to take ideas from Steve’s presentation and link them back to their own development worker roles – which bits did they really feel would be beneficial to organisations? Where are there further learning needs? Which bits did they feel do not apply? General reflections? How does using social media apply during the recession? What advantages can it bring? What disadvantages? Exercise – Return to ‘Happy to Help’ – what ideas would you provide to them in order to improve their plans for the year ahead?
Find out what general planning experience people have E.g. Financial planning Skills audits? Business plans for funding bids?
Reaffirmation of the benefits of planning and what you need to know to make sure planning is thorough and realistic
Hand Out Exercise on doing a DIY Health Check Material used are base on A GUIDE TO MANAGING ICT by MARK WALKER Again the materials for this exercise are taken from A Guide to Managing ICT by Mark Walker produced by NCVO Pages 16 - 18
At the end of the session find out what the exercise has made people think about ICT in their own organisations Suggest they do the exercise for real when they go back to their organisations when they have all relevant information to hand
Led by Steve Bridger How can Social Media help organisation be more effective
Depending on time available at the end of the session – use opportunities for Q&A session – what needs are identified to support further planning work? How do the group feel about supporting groups with ICT? Where are the gaps?
Explain the net:gain programme and its benefits
** Top Tips 1, 2, 3 - 15 mins Exercise – 5 mins Give folks 5 mins to write down ways of saving money and compare with this list.
ITQ - is aimed at IT users and not professional IT staff such as engineers and developers. ITQ is tailored to the needs of your business and your staff. It provides analysis of workforce skills such as making the best use of technology in business systems and in communication with colleagues and customers. It recognises that all organisations need IT skills but that these will vary in level and type depending on individual business needs and the use made of technology in the organisation. ITQ even allows for the inclusion of bespoke units in recognition that many employers have their own unique IT systems.
Useful Links Not by any means an exhaustive list enough to get you started in terms first stage sign posting, if unable to help directly, you should be sign posted on to organisations that are able to help and advise further.
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