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Volunteers around the world are building an open-content encyclopedia in many languages. Over a million linked articles, and the Maori language is part of it. Te Reo students and proficient speakers may gain value from Wikipedia Maori and can add their own contribution. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/Maori-Wikipedia.htm
Arts, Culture and Heritage: One stop online access to cultural information. $3.6 million to develop an internet portal for NZ's cultural sector. Many more... www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/2005-Budget-releases.htm
Feedback on the Maori health disability and workforce plan is due by Friday 8 July 2005. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/eedback-Maori-health.htm
Community portals for every geographic community in NZ are to be launched in July. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/Community-Portals.htm
The Digital Strategy is a practical and achievable action plan for ensuring all New Zealanders benefit from information and communications technology). www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/digital-strategy-announce.htm
A new 'train the trainers' Information Technology skills programme will be rolled out to community learning centres in disadvantaged communities around New Zealand over the next two years. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/Unlimited-Potential-announce.htm
A new 'train the trainers' Information Technology skills programme will be rolled out to community learning centres in disadvantaged communities around New Zealand over the next two years.
www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/Unlimited-Potential-announce.htm
The Consumer Advisory Committee of PHARMAC is seeking your feedback on a discussion paper on Health Industry Sponsorship of Consumer Health Organisations. The deadline for feedback is Friday 3 June 2005. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/health-industry-sponsorship.htm
Industry Canada's Information Management / Information Technology Secretariat has delivered a five component strategy. 02.04.2008 - This website has been removed as it is no longer active. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/technology-tools.htm
Industry Canada's Information Management / Information Technology Secretariat has delivered a five component strategy.
02.04.2008 - This website has been removed as it is no longer active. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/technology-tools.htm
AccEase focus on accessibility of websites, intranets and documentation. Their team, which includes people with disabilities, do accessibility assessments, consultancy and training and workshops. Their site has a number of useful Accessibility FAQs, Hot Tips, Papers and Links. www.accease.com
The PIANGO is a regional network of NGO focal points or coordinating bodies based in 22 Pacific Island countries and territories. PIANGO was established in 1991 to assist NGOs in the Pacific to initiate action, give voice to their concerns and work collaboratively with other development actors for just and sustainable human development. www.piango.org
An ethnic organisation of Sri Lankan migrants, to organise their cultural, religious and social practices and traditions. www.srilankaramaya.org
A free online Maori language encyclopedia in the making. Helpers needed, especially those with Te Reo. mi.wikipedia.org
Depression is common, but there is help available. People who experience depression do get better --- you can recover and learn to cope with depression. This site shows you where to go for help as well as how to recognise the signs of depression. www.outoftheblue.org.nz
The Digital Strategy is the government's action plan that outlines what is going to be done to create a strong digital future for New Zealand. The Digital Strategy will set New Zealand's direction for the next five years. www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz
Te Aroha Noa offers a wide range of community based programmes, from early childhood development and learning to counseling and family / whanau services. www.tearohanoa.org.nz
For job seekers who have Maori talents and skills. www.MaoriTalent.com
Community ezine for the Eastern Suburbs of Auckland that covers general news and community events, with video, sound slide shows. An interactive look at East Auckland. RSS feed available. 2.04.2008 website removed as site no longer active : www.eastlife.co.nz
Community ezine for the Eastern Suburbs of Auckland that covers general news and community events, with video, sound slide shows. An interactive look at East Auckland. RSS feed available.
2.04.2008 website removed as site no longer active : www.eastlife.co.nz
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Back in the old days, if you wanted to broadcast spoken word and music it wasn't easy. You would have to set up a radio station of your own or hook in to the most excellent Access Radio network, go down to the studio, learn how to operate some equipment and record your session (or broadcast live, if you had enough experience).
www.nzonair.govt.nz/radio_detail.php?pid=408&sid=400
This was good, but had many limitations. You had to get all the participants together at the studio and know how to work with the equipment. Once the recording was made it would be broadcast at a certain fixed time to a geographically limited audience. The duration of the broadcast was fixed as it had to fit in a predetermined "slot". You may also have needed to find funding to help support your programme making.
Nevertheless, such radio broadcasts have been well-used to support the interests and culture of numerous groups within New Zealand. There are 11 access radio stations broadcasting in New Zealand at present.
Now, however, computers and the Internet are changing our lives and freeing us from geographical and other restrictions. Desktop publishing, web pages, and then Blogs, allowed us to publish ourselves in images and text for others to look at and read. RSS Newsfeeds allow our readers to subscribe to our pages and receive automatic updates. And now we can use those same RSS feeds to deliver audio content, in a phenomenon known as Podcasting.
Panui articles on Blogs and RSS newsfeeds are here:
In the same way that desktop publishing allowed us to produce our own leaflets and posters, Podcasting allows us to create our own radio stations and broadcast our content to a worldwide audience.
Podcasting is different from just recording an audio file on your computer and then putting it on your website, because you use a common format such as MP3 for the audio file and then it automatically downloads for those who "subscribe" to it.
Subscribing to a site doesn't mean your audience has to pay; just that they put the address in their feed reading software and the software automatically checks for new content at regular intervals. If you have an audio file in the content then the visitor's software automatically downloads it, moves it into their music software and even loads it automatically onto a portable MP3 player (such as an Apple iPod) if they have one. If they don't have such a device then they can simply listen to your content on their computer.
The Podcast format is ideal for any community groups which want to provide audio. This may include music, short items of news, interviews with experts and practitioners, perhaps training materials. It's entirely flexible: your broadcast may be three or four minutes or an hour or anything in between. It may be five minutes today, 30 minutes tomorrow and ten minutes next week. Your broadcast may appear every Friday and then also tomorrow if a news item crops up.
Unlike radio, you don't have to have a regular schedule, such as every Saturday at 7.30 am, but it will help to offer new content frequently, probably at least fortnightly.
Podcasting is a fairly new phenomenon, but like Web sites and email it's catching on quickly. Most currently available Podcasts are related to science and technology, but the sooner community groups explore this avenue for broadcasting the better. Take a look at some of these sites and think about how your community group could use Podcasting.
[June 2005] Collaborating on a document can be hard work as you send a file to and fro, work out how to incorporate the changes, deal with delays. By using the Internet though, you could experiment with a Wiki for joint efforts.
One of the best known applications of the Wiki is Wikipedia, the free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit, with its 577,000+ articles. For Maori speakers there's also Wikipedia Maori.
In times past an encyclopedia was a big, static, expensive set of books, created by someone and published by someone else after much time-consuming research. We could search in vain for recent developments, Kiwiana or entries reflecting cultural and other minorities.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia on the web, created by ordinary people and updated and enhanced by ordinary people. Anyone can contribute, edit existing information or create new entries. Wikipedia offers helpful guidelines and a sandbox to experiment in.
Your group doesn't have to engage in such a huge project though, if all you want to do is to formulate your next AGM agenda or Constitution, or funding application, or submission to the local council on its new policies.
Sign up for a free Wiki at Wikispaces, which advertises itself as "a place to grow communities around the topics you care about".
We've set up a test Wiki you can experiment with at cnawiki.wikispaces.org/test. Just visit that page and click on the Edit page link. Now try changing some of the information and click the Save button. You've just edited the page! Click on the Help link for details on how to make headings and so on. You can create new pages, add discussion, include pictures and so on. If you own the Wiki space you can make pages somewhat private by not including them in the directory.
There are other Wiki spaces out there and you can also host your own Wiki on your own website Try our test Wiki and see if it's something your group could use.
And remember, too, you can contribute to the Wikipedia encyclopedia --- English or Maori.
The Internet started out as something we all just "consumed". These days though we don't need to be just passive consumers. Wikis are just one more way of using technology to improve the world around us.
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Community organisations provided: 10 news articles, 9 links, 13 jobs, 16 events, 2 classifieds, and 5 courses.
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