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"News and views on community networking throughout Aotearoa."
Kiwis around the country have been inspired to volunteer during Volunteer Awareness Week (15 - 21 June). Statistics from Volunteering New Zealand show a huge leap in numbers visiting the Volunteer Now website www.volunteer.org.nz where people can search for volunteering opportunities throughout the country.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/volunteer-week.htm
Keeping It Legal E Ai Ki Te Ture was designed as a starting point for people in voluntary and not-for-profit organisations who wanted to know about the laws that may affect them. It can be used as a tool in developing risk management strategies. It is available free online at www.keepingitlegal.net.nz, and also in print.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/keep-it-legal-survey.htm
The Print Media Copyright Agency (PMCA) is offering free photocopying licences to charities registered with the Charities Commission. The licences mean that charities can legally photocopy, fax or electronically distribute articles appearing in 31 daily and Sunday newspapers. As an additional bonus, registered charities that apply for a licence can also photocopy and distribute articles from 42 magazines and 118 community newspapers at no additional cost.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/copy-licence.htm
A new survey report into the not-for-profit sector has been released by business advice and chartered accounting firm Grant Thornton New Zealand. The 2007-2008 report focuses on topical issues affecting the sector and builds on the findings from the 2003 and 2005 surveys.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/nfp-survey.htm
The Problem Gambling library catalogue: A quality filter for print and Internet resources is now online. At last, a comprehensive 'one stop shop' for problem gambling information, fact sheets and resources. Now you can search in one place for gambling information, with the Problem Gambling library home page as a point of entry. The library has over 5,000 resources which include reports, articles, videos, DVDs, books and brochures.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/pg-library.htm
The Department of Internal Affairs began taking applications for the newly restructured Community Development Scheme on 4 July. Four of the department's Crown Funded Schemes (Community Development Scheme, Community Based Youth Development Fund, Maori Community Development Worker Scheme, and Crime Prevention Scheme) have been merged into one Community Development Scheme. A 2007 review found that the four schemes had similar, and often overlapping, community development approaches. These schemes have now been merged in order to provide communities with more flexible funding opportunities. The 2008 / 09 funding round closes on 30 September at 4:00pm.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/cds-round.htm
By answering three questions and sending them to the Asthma Foundation you could win a double pass to see Don Quixote performed by the Royal New Zealand Ballet. A winner will be chosen randomly from all correctly completed entries and the prize is a double pass to see Don Quixote.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/don-quixote.htm
The Wellington Down Syndrome Social Club provides young adults with Down Syndrome the opportunity to socialise with each other on a regular basis. The Club celebrated its inaugural event on 25 July; Down Syndrome young adults, their caregivers, members of the community, and the public heard about the background of the Social Club and its planned operations for 2008. It is the first Social Club of this type in the Wellington region.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/social-club.htm
Save the Children New Zealand invites you to submit applications for the Small Grants Fund. The Small Grants Fund is targeted at local projects advancing the rights of New Zealand children. Save the Children would like to fund local initiatives that endeavour to make lasting benefits for children and young people by building their capacity to reach their full potential. The Small Grants Fund is allocated twice a year and the closing dates for receiving applications are April 15 and September 15.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/small-grants-fund.htm
Latest community news, events, jobs and ads are online at:www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news.
Capoeira Mandinga Aotearoa is a national school with classes of all levels for adults and children. There are beginners classes and also several workshops through the year in each centre.
www.capoeira.org.nz
NZFVWO is an active network of social service organisations with a membership base of around 140 organisations. The Federation's mission is to inform, inspire and advocate for a thriving voluntary welfare sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. We provide a unique opportunity to be involved in strengthening community services and increasing the influence and power of the sector.
www.nzfvwo.org.nz
With a history spanning over seven decades of campaigning on behalf of animals, SAFE continues to be at the forefront of exposing animal abuse within New Zealand and around the globe.
www.safe.org.nz
Free and confidential community-based legal services throughout the Taranaki region. Our objective is to provide a legal services for those that cannot afford a lawyer and do not qualify for legal aid. Services provided are: legal information, legal advice, legal assistance, legal representation (not in court) and law related education.
www.communitylawtaranaki.org
Friends of Urdu Ranui (FOUR) is a friendship group of new settlers living in Ranui, West Auckland. FOUR has a programme of meetings and events, working to strengthen and improve the health and wellbeing of new settlers (especially from the subcontinent and Middle East) living in the area.
www.geocities.com/friennz4
The Sir Peter Blake Marine Education Recreation Centre is based at Long Bay, Auckland and offers outdoor activities and programmes for school and corporate groups.
www.merc.org.nz
Transition Town initiatives are bringing people together out of a desire to explore how we - and our communities - can respond to the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil. Each transition group networks with their local community on a coordinated range of projects designed to transition from high energy to low energy lifestyles in a positive and creative manner.
www.transitiontowns.org.nz
Big Buddy mentoring is based on the simple philosophy that boys need good male role models in their lives to become good men. Our programme matches volunteer male mentors from the community with boys between the ages of 7-12 who don't have a father or other male role model in their lives.
www.bigbuddy.org.nz
The website for the national Campaign for Action on Family Violence will be constantly evolving and expanding as the campaign grows and takes hold around New Zealand. Find resources to help families and whanau have healthy, respectful, stable relationships, free from violence. Links to websites of organisations around New Zealand committed to supporting individuals and communities to say family violence, it's not OK!
www.areyouok.org.nz
Atareira (formerly known as Schizophrenia Fellowship Wgtn) is a Wellington-based mental health organisation that provides services for people who experience mental illness, their family and whanau throughout the Wellington region, including the Hutt Valley, Porirua, and the Kapiti Coast.
www.atareira.org.nz
MBPA provides a platform for Maori in business, Maori non-profit organisations and Maori professionals in rural, regional and overseas locations to gain access to information and knowledge that will aid business growth. MBPA encourages the development of distinctive Maori business products, processes and services that arise from Maori knowledge, resources and people.
www.mbpa.co.nz
EthnicWord are developers and publishers of Maori/ Pasifika/ English educational language resources, designed to impact literacy, numeracy, language preservation and early educational learning. EthnicWord's products are proudly made in Aotearoa New Zealand.
www.ethnicword.co.nz
The New Zealand Endometriosis Foundation Inc (NZEF) is a registered charitable trust with a unique and special character, formed to provide a resource of information, education, encourage research and work with health professionals to foster and support women, girls and families living with endometriosis.
www.nzendo.co.nz
A community of people with hepatitis C helping other people who are affected by hepatitis C. The site features information and news about hepatitis C, forums and support.
www.hcv.org.nz
KASM is a spontaneous community-based action group strongly opposed to any non-essential seabed mining. The group intends to protect and preserve the coastline for future generations to enjoy by raising public awareness of current seabed mining proposals, inform as to the consequences of those proposals, and ensure governments stop considering these or any future operations.
www.blacksands.org.nz
Google now offers a te reo Maori version of Google, called Google Aotearoa.
www.google.co.nz
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The last Tip showed you one way to obtain a personal domain name for yourself or your family. Domains are cheap and allow for an email address that stays 'yours' even if you change your Internet Provider. This Tip mentions another way to get a domain name, and explains one way to use that domain name for your email.
A domain name doesn't just exist in thin air — it has to be 'tied' to an Internet address, and someone has to manage that Internet address. Some companies do this for free, others charge a small or large amount. You could even do it yourself, if you have the kind of knowledge that makes Tips like these redundant.
If you haven't yet bought your own domain name it's easy to do through Google Apps as part of the Gmail setup process. A domain name through Google Apps costs US$10 and in fact is a lot easier than buying a domain name separately and then setting up Gmail to use it.
Google, the search engine company, offer a free email service called Gmail as part of their Google Apps package. It includes sophisticated and effective anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-phishing filtering. It also ties in with a calendar and Google Docs, as well as free web pages.
Gmail is available to individuals, businesses, educational institutions, community organisations — anyone, in fact. Those who choose to pay US$50 per user per year for Google Apps Premier Edition also have access to a further layer of spam filtering, increased storage, and some other features. But many people will be perfectly happy with the free service.
Recently both Waikato and Auckland universities have been in the news for switching to Gmail. At Auckland that involved 50,000 users.
One specially useful Gmail feature is IMAP. IMAP stores all your email on the Gmail server so you can access any email you've sent or received from any Internet computer, cellphone or handheld device at any time. If you like, you can also download copies to one or more computers so the emails are also available offline. The free edition offers 6 gigabytes of storage — hundreds or even thousands of times more than most email providers.
A free Gmail account allows you to use your own domain name. There are www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html and www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/resources/setup/setup_video.html.
Until you've told everyone about your new domain name and email address they will still be sending to your old email address. With Gmail that's not a problem: in the Settings tell Gmail to collect email from up to 5 other addresses. It all just turns up in your Gmail In Box.
It's been around a year since I moved a web page and my main email address to Google Apps (Premier Edition). My experiences have led to this Tip.
Explore what Google Apps and Gmail can do for you.
Disclaimer: This article reflects the personal opinions of Miraz Jordan. CommunityNet Aotearoa, the Department of Internal Affairs do not in any way endorse any domain name registrar or email service.
Could you follow a recipe to cook scones? If so, read on.
A lot of tools these days try to protect people from HTML — that's the coding that turns text into a web page. But even if you're using an easy publishing system, or a blog, having a bit of a grasp of some of the basics of HTML gives you more knowledge, more power and a greater ability to produce great results. And the basics are not hard. If you can follow a recipe to make scones then you can use some basic HTML.
Here's the world's most basic web page. Copy the following text and paste it into a document using a text editor such as Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on Macs. Save it on your desktop with the filename: page01.html. Do not under any circumstances use a word processor such as MS Office, because it inserts invisible weird characters that later show up in odd places.
page01.html
<html> <head> <title>My first web page</title> </head> <body> <p>My first paragraph. </p> </body> </html>
And yes, most of it is lower case.
Now, a real web designer will fall over laughing at this and probably expostulate that you need all kinds of other coding for even a minimum web page. That's what I'd do, if I were reading this instead of writing a 600 word article. But this is the bare minimum you need, to start understanding HTML. The stuff that's important for us is what comes between <body> and </body> — the body of a web page. Just ignore the rest (but don't leave it out).
<body>
</body>
Now that you've saved the file page01.html on your Desktop open up a web browser: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or whichever one you use. Go to the File menu and choose a command like Open File. Choose page01.html and open it into your web browser.
Your first web page will be displayed. It's a bit plain, and bland, and raw, but it's a start, and you made it. It should say: "My first paragraph.". If it doesn't, double check what you've typed against what's written here. All those angle brackets and things should be identical.
My first paragraph.
Go back to your text editor where page01.html should still be open (or open it again). The HTML tags (codes) <p> and </p> show where a paragraph starts (<p>) and stops ( </p>). The slash in the second tag shows that you've 'closed' the paragraph. Click after </p> and type another pair of paragraph tags: <p> </p> .
<p>
</p>
Now click between the two tags you've just added and type another paragraph. Here's how that section of my page looks now:
<p>My first paragraph. </p> <p>My second paragraph uses fake words to make it stretch over a few lines: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur gravida. Donec rutrum. Nunc interdum lorem eget nibh ullamcorper vestibulum. Integer nisi. Pellentesque id orci vitae sem dapibus placerat. </p>
Save your document and go to your web browser. Either click the Refresh / Reload button or follow the earlier steps to open the saved file. Your web page should now have two paragraphs.
Refresh / Reload
Just one more thing for this starter recipe. You may feel it's pretty important that this is your first web page, so let's emphasise that word. Bold may leap to your mind as formatting that shows something is important, but other techniques sometimes feature on websites too, such as red, or upper case, or larger text, or italics. How you show a word or phrase as emphasised is between you and your web designer. What you need to do in the HTML is show that the text should stand out somehow on the grounds that it's emphasised.
You need to code it as being 'strong' (emphasis). Most web browsers will automatically use bold for that, but a web designer can make the web browser use another technique.
strong
Here's what you do — you use the <strong> tag, like this:
<strong>
<p>My <strong>first</strong> paragraph. </p>
Save your web page again and again refresh your web browser. You should now see that the word 'first' stands out.
first
Now you're coding!
In the next Tip I'll show you how to add some headings and a link. (Headings tip for the adventurous: experiment with these: <h1> </h1>, <h2> </h2>, <h3> </h3>).
Panui tips contributed by Miraz Jordan, http://knowit.co.nz
Past Website tips are all available on CommunityNet Aotearoa.
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