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"News and views on community networking throughout Aotearoa."
By filling in the survey you can help us set priorities for the CommunityNet Aotearoa website. Readers' requests and ideas from the 2006-2007 Survey were followed up and led to additions to the website. There are 17 questions in all.
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The Global Education Fund (GEF) provides funding for small projects to develop awareness and understanding of global perspectives among New Zealanders, to encourage them to become responsible global citizens, and to create a safe and just world. The next funding round closes 31 March.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/ne ws/national/gef-applications.htm
Creative New Zealand is calling for applications from Maori and Pacific artists to be part of the New Zealand delegation attending the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in Pago Pago, American Samoa in July. The festival is recognised as the premier event for enhancing regional relations and preservation of the Pacific’s cultural heritage. Creative New Zealand will select a combination of accomplished and emerging artists from within the Maori and New Zealand based Pacific communities.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/n ews/national/maori-pacific-art.htm
The largest and most comprehensive Maori online directory had been launched. Maori owned and operated, The Maori Directory covers Maori across the globe in Aotearoa (NZ), Australia, America, Asia, Canada, Europe, UK, with hundreds of categories and listings and a robust search engine for quick searching.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/new s/national/maori-directory.htm
“My life has been a constant effort to illustrate how a very mediocre person with very mediocre talents, which I have, can create quite a lot if they really drive themselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary’s mountaineering achievements made him a role model to New Zealanders, and his lifetime of giving has continued to inspire us. Volunteering New Zealand, Philanthropy New Zealand and the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector (OCVS) wish to pay tribute to Sir Ed’s generous and giving nature, to his can-do attitude, and to his quiet sense of duty. As founder of the Himalayan Trust and patron to a number of non-profit organisations, such as the Fred Hollows Foundation, Sir Ed embodied the spirit of giving, in every sense of the word.
www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/nat ional/ed-hillary.htm
Do you have the experience or do you know someone who’s got a strong network in Pacific communities? Who’s good at building good relationships with a range of people and groups? Now’s the time to make a nomination for membership of the Pacific Island Consultation Advisory Group, or PICAG. Nominations are being called for Representatives from the Auckland, Manukau and Waitakere regions to be elected to the Department of Internal Affairs Pacific Island Consultation Advisory Group (PICAG). PICAG needs people who are well connected with Pacific groups in their region and who can maintain those connections.
www.community.net.nz/community centre/news/national/pac-island-advisory-group.htm
Latest community news, events, jobs and ads are online at: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news.
Kahikatea Eco-Village and Art-Space is a new venture, on 18 acres of bush land in Albany, about 15 minutes north of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The site has plenty of houses and workshops that we would love to see these being used by people who share our passion about sustainability, creativity, art, and social change.
www.myspace.com/kahikateavillage
The largest and most comprehensive Maori directory online. Covering Maori across the globe in Aotearoa (NZ), Australia, America, Asia, Canada, Europe, UK. Hundreds of categories and listings with a robust search engine.
www.themaoridirectory.com
Free Classified Ads New Zealand. Community Notices, For Sale, Jobs, Services, Property, Events, Personal. Visit now and post an ad for free!
http://adpages.co.nz
The Primal Youth Web community is about bringing people together across the Primal Youth Network. Meet new people, share videos and messages, keep up to date with what is happening, start something up. Register to the site and keep in touch.
www.primalyouth.com
In close co-operation with the world's yachting and diving communities OceansWatch undertakes marine conservation projects and offers humanitarian aid to coastal communities in developing countries.
www.oceanswatch.org
A community network reach-out facility meeting communication needs not fulfilled by existing media. We seek to create a virtual community with facilities of use and interest to a wide selection of people.
www.chb.net.nz
SmoothStream Trust is all about arts participation, especially music, in a safe and supportive environment to promote positive mental health. The SmoothStream Community Band has played in Auckland since 2005.
http://smoothstream.co.nz
Re-useable artwork frames - the affordable way to frame pictures and ideal for children's art work. Enhance children's self esteem by displaying their artwork with Tolka Frames. We offer quick, hassle-free fundraising. We do everything for you. Excellent profits.
www.tolkaframes.co.nz
Deaf Sports Federation of New Zealand was established in 1963 with the purpose of bringing deaf people in New Zealand together through sports. Deaf people of all ages, backgrounds participate in various sporting events locally, nationally and internationally.
www.deafsports.co.nz
FACE India is a non-governmental, non-profit and politically independent youth organisation. FACE aims to increase social, cultural, educational, and environmental action in rural and urban areas through national and international volunteer and exchange schemes.
www.faceindia.org
Ambury Park Centre for Riding Therapy is recognised for its work using horses to assist young people with a range of health and behaviour difficulties. The centre offers a range of services that includes a secondary school, a vocational training programme and riding therapy weekly sessions for riders with a disability.
www.amburyparkcentre.org.nz
PublishaLetter.com allows you to submit letters to the editors of essentially all the newspapers in New Zealand and virtually all major English language papers in the world. Letters can also be published on the site itself. While the site does not welcome prefabricated-form letters, it can be an important neutral avenue for the members and supporters of various organizations to have their voices heard and shared.
www.publishaletter.com
Community Networks Wanaka ensures the Community Development and Social Needs of the Upper Clutha Region are met. We offer information and advice to individuals and groups by providing the necessary resources required to meet their needs.
http://communitynetworks.co.nz
Maverick International Student and Migrant Support Trust is a government approved charitable trust, which has been established to provide support and assistance to international students and migrants that have chosen to study or settle in the Dunedin community.
www.mavericktrust.org.nz
Our website contains information about the Iwi of Hauraki and the Hauraki Maori Trust Board. It looks at who we are, what we do and the challenges and opportunities that are before us. Our organisation represents twelve Iwi each of which have different traditions, histories and perspectives but who have all made their home in Hauraki. That diversity is uniquely Hauraki and makes us strong as a tribal nation.
www.haurakimaori.co.nz
Online home of Wellington-based entertainer, MC, mime and comedian Fergus Aitken. Fergus is in regular demand as a standup comic and actor, physical theatre performer, MC, and teacher. Also available for festivals and events, schools, community workshops, etc. Leading NZ tutor in mime and physical theatre.
www.mrfungus.co.nz
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"Beam me up, Scotty" --- before he could utter those immortal words, Captain James T Kirk first had to pull a small device called a 'communicator' from his pocket. He'd flip it open, it would chirrup, and communication was established.
In the 1960's when the Star Trek TV show was created, such a device was the stuff of wildest dreams. Now, in 2008, we wonder why the only thing the 'communicator' could do was make what amounted to phonecalls.
Almost everyone now carries a 'communicator': a tiny cellphone and/or a tiny MP3 music player. The devices are very small, slide into your pocket, clip on your belt or get lost in a small bag.
Their capabilities are amazing: phones take photos and MP3 players play videos. Keep address books and calendars on both, or either. Price, brand and model affect exactly what features are crammed into each minuscule package.
Smart phones and Pocket PCs such as the Nokia N95, Treo and Blackberry, the HTC Titan, iPhone (not yet available in NZ) and others may cost upwards of $750, but they are tiny, capable, popular and *very* well connected.
Such 'smart' devices include access to web, email, documents, RSS newsfeeds, Twitter, Google maps, calendars, address books, weather reports, YouTube and other Internet-enabled services. And some of them include wireless access to the Internet.
They change how we interact with the world --- people use these devices, all the time, all over the place to stay connected. Think Star Trek communicator, only *much* more powerful.
Although it's not a phone, the iPod touch is the first MP3 player to join the wireless-enabled Internet club. It has a comparatively large screen and uses a real web browser. It's a slim, lightweight handheld Internet device without the costs of a calling plan or prepaid card.
Where you can connect to a wireless network you can use an iPod touch to check email and RSS feeds, browse web pages, Twitter, Facebook and pretty much anything else on the Internet, along with accessing YouTube and the iTunes Store with all its podcasts. Oh, and don't forget Google Maps that can not only show you where a location is and how it looks, but also give you turn by turn driving directions.
Wireless networks are available through Cafenet in Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Hawkes Bay, Palmerston North, Wairarapa, Greytown, Wellington, Porirua and Hutt Valley.
www.cafenet.co.nz/zones
Many coffee shops, campuses, businesses, events and even individuals are providing wireless networks too, sometimes free of charge.
With TheFreeNet - Aotearoa people are donating spare bandwidth via inexpensive Meraki devices to make wi-fi freely available at no charge to the public:
http://groups.google.com/group/ftnaotearoa/web/how-can-i -help
Be careful about information you send through any public wireless network though, in case someone is capturing your data, such as credit card details or login passwords.
See an article by Glenn Fleishman for more information about wireless security when using devices such as the iPhone and iPod touch:
http://db.tidbits.com/article/9391
Smart phones, the iPhone and the iPod touch transform connectedness in our world. Take a look at what they can do for your relationships with clients, friends, family, stakeholders and others.
We use only 10% of our brains; everyone knows that. Funny, isn't it, how we all know that, and remember it, even though it's not true. It's a very 'sticky' idea. It stays with us, like the stories about our next door neighbour's cousin waking up in a bathtub missing a kidney, or how Neil Armstrong walking on the moon was just a hoax.
We've all heard such urban legends and have little trouble recalling them, even though they're not the stuff of TV and newspaper ads. So how can community groups, businesses and others use this to help spread their own messages?
Chip Heath and Dan Heath explain the s-u-c-c-e-s technique in their book Made to Stick. Along the way they mention the Velcro Theory of Memory, the Curse of Knowledge, and curiosity gaps.
When you talk or write about your organisation and the work it does, how can you incorporate the following features of 'stickiness'?
So now we have a curiosity gap: what's the Curse of Knowledge? www.madetostick.com answers that question.
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