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"News and views on community networking throughout Aotearoa."
The government has allocated more than $40 million to two contestable seed funds, the Broadband Challenge and the Community Partnership Fund. Expressions of interest for both funds are called for, to be received by 12th December.www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/digital-strategy-funds-launched.htm.
Volunteering New Zealand have prepared an International Volunteer Day promotion toolkit. International Volunteer Day (IV Day) started 20 years ago and is celebrated worldwide on December 5.www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/international-volunteer-day-toolkit.htm.
The Ministry of Health has produced Pandemic Planning Resources to help organisations and individuals prepare for a possible pandemic in New Zealand.www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/pandemic-preparedness.htm.
We are adding a Pandemic Influenza Planning Resources Toolkit to the Risk Management How-To Guide. Look for it there soon. The information, prepared for emergency management groups and local government, will help you to take precautions to stay healthy in a pandemic event - and therefore be in the best possible position to provide help to your communities.www.community.net.nz/How-ToGuides/RiskManagement/PublicationsResources/pandemic-planning.htm.
A new catalogue of organisational resources for community and voluntary organisations has been published on CommunityNet Aotearoa. The Ministry of Social Development published the printed catalogue, and the Ministry and the Department of Internal Affairs then worked together to publish it online at CommunityNet Aotearoa.www.community.net.nz/managingwell..
New Zealand Seniors Card, launched in early 2004, has reached 20,000 members, as more people over 55 discover the savings that can be made at businesses throughout the country. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/seniors-card-discounts.htm.
Winnie Laban becomes Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector with associate ministerial responsibilities in Pacific Island Affairs, Social Development and Employment, and Economic Development.www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/minister-community-voluntary-sector.htm.
Over 4500 community groups from Kaitaia to Bluff are benefiting this year from New Zealand Post's flagship sponsorship programme, Community Post. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/free-postage.htm.
Work and Income is helping communities create local employment opportunities, and to address skills issues by developing community owned businesses, through its newly created Enterprising Communities Programme.www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/enterprising-funding.htm.
The Internet Safety Group has a six- month campaign to educate New Zealanders on online security and how to protect their PCs from information theft. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/computer-security-urgent.htm.
The first part of the Digital Strategy action plan is the introduction of two contestable seed funds, the Broadband Challenge and the Community Partnership Fund.www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/funding-criteria.htm.
Website Up and Running, Wider Consultation on Draft Registration and Related forms, General Timings for the Registration Process, Key Milestones.www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/charities-commission-update-3.htm.
New research shows that the internet is an important tool in the community and voluntary sector in New Zealand. It shows that the internet plays an important role in facilitating community engagement within civil society and between civil society and government agencies. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/internet-in-community.htm.
Comprehensive regulations to prevent and minimise the harm caused by gambling came into effect on Saturday, 1 October 2005. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/gambling-regs-2005.htm.
Special Education paper for discussion and suggestions will be presented to the Community Legal Dept, Group Special Education, Ministry of Education and others.www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/special-education-paper.htm.
Carers NZ provides information, advocacy and support for family caregivers. News, articles, research, resources, discussion boards feature on the website.www.carers.net.nz.
This community site for Foxton and Foxton Beach offers the Community listings and web-pages.www.foxton.org.nz.
Kids Friendly New Zealand is the online magazine for parents with children under 12 years of age.www.kidsfriendlynz.com.
The Coalition of Community Law Centres promotes community legal services, participatory justice, community development and helps meet the "unmet legal needs" of communities throughout Aotearoa.www.communitylaw.org.nz.
LivingWorks provides learning programs that help caregivers play a role in preventing suicide.www.livingworks.org.nz.
NZ intellectual property legislation including the Patents Act, Trade Marks Act, Designs Act, Copyright Act, Plant Variety Rights Act, and Fair Trading Act (and corresponding regulations) is available online.www.legislation.govt.nz.
The Law Commission is a central advisory body established by statute to undertake the systematic review, reform and development of the law of New Zealand. Email updates and search available.www.lawcom.govt.nz.
Good Works is a specialist Community, Government, Non-Profit and Sports jobs website.www.goodworks.co.nz/home.asp.
To support member service providers to make a world of difference in their communities through their work with children and families. Its vision is an effective Child and Family Support and Community Services sector.www.theorganisation.org.nz/index.htm.
This site publishes the results of a research project (Strengthening Communities through Local Partnerships) that examines the range, scope and effectiveness of local partnerships in New Zealand, and looks for ways to strengthen such partnerships.www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/lpg/index.cfm.
The Social Policy Journal of New Zealand is published three times a year by the Ministry of Social Development as a forum for public debate on social policy issues.www.msd.govt.nz/publications/journal/index.html.
Preventing Violence in the Home provides a national helpline and national training programs. Advocacy services for adult and child victims of family violence and a men's stopping violence program are provided in Auckland.www.preventingviolence.org.nz.
Korero Maori is for everyone who wants to speak the Maori language, or learn more about it. You can find interactive conversations, language resources, and advice to help you increase your knowledge of reo Maori.www.korero.maori.nz.
It can be very annoying to be visiting a friend, taking part in a workshop, at a conference and you want to show off a website you found recently … except you can't remember the address. Of course you bookmarked it, but that was on some other computer.
Just imagine if you could share bookmarks with companion organisations — but only the ones that interest them. A service called Del.icio.us lets you do just that.
Visit the Del.icio.us website and sign up for a free account. Verify the account by clicking on the URL in the email you receive. Add the Post to Del.icio.us and My Del.icio.us bookmarklets to your web browser toolbar. There is a Help page with details, if you're not sure how to do this.
I signed up with the account name: CommunityNet.
Now surf around in the usual way and when you come to a page you want to bookmark click on the Post to Del.icio.us bookmarklet in your toolbar.
You may need to login at this point, but once you've done that you'll arrive at a screen where you can enter tags (categories) and save the bookmark. Then you're returned to the page you were visiting. You can access your list of links from any web browser anywhere in the world.
What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting.
Anyone can visit your bookmarks list by typing your URL into their browser. Visit our experimental CommunityNet Aotearoa bookmarks.
Tags are the key to making the service useful. Once you've entered some tags for the first time they become available for future use. It's as easy as clicking the tag. If others have bookmarked the same page then their tags will be suggested too. We'll look more at Tags in another Tip.
[November 2005] Phonecalls can be expensive, especially if you have to pay national or international toll fees. It's worth looking into using Voice over IP (VoIP), or in other words using your Internet connection for making effectively free phonecalls.
"I knew it was over when I downloaded Skype," Michael Powell, chairman, Federal Communications Commission, explained.
"When the inventors of KaZaA are distributing for free a little program that you can use to talk to anybody else, and the quality is fantastic, and it's free — it's over. The world will change now inevitably."
— Fortune Magazine, February 16, 2004 [Quoted at www.skype.com/company.]
You need a computer connected to the Internet and equipped with a microphone and speaker (and sound card). If you don't have these built-in then you can buy them as extra peripherals. You'll achieve the best results with a fast Internet connection and good quality microphone and speaker, but even a dial-up connection can work just fine.
You need to sign up for a VoIP service, such as Skype and install the software. Exchange Skype names with your regular contacts and add the names to your Skype address book.
As with many services these days you can sign up free or pay for more advanced features. The free service includes calls to other Skype users; you pay extra to be able to call regular phone numbers.
You can easily see which of your contacts are online. To make a phonecall double click a contact's name in your Skype address book. After a short time the call will be connected and now you just talk as though this were a regular phonecall.
The basic Skype service is free and allows you to call other Skype users over the Internet. There is no cost beyond your normal Internet charges. For a tiny extra fee you can call regular phone numbers using SkypeOut. At time of writing that rate is 0.017 Euros per minute (about 3 cents NZ). That includes international calls.
Compare that with Telecom's Anytime plan, charging 18 cents per minute for national calls and 49 cents per minute to the UK, and you can see why VoIP is becoming so extraordinarily popular.
It may be worth doing some sums and experimenting a little.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ip-telephony.htm
Past Website tips are all available on CommunityNet Aotearoa.
This major new catalogue lists over 100 resources to help you set-up or run a community organisation or project in New Zealand. You will find references or links to manuals, websites, information sheets, books, and organisations that can help. Managing Well is a joint initiative of the Family and Community Services and the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/managing-well.
(In Campaigning and Advocacy How-to Guide.)
Includes a social change training programme for people working on environmental campaigns.www.community.net.nz/How-ToGuides/Campaign-Advocacy/Publications-Resources/Earthshare.htm.
An Australian community organisation which provides training and resources for environmental and social change campaigners.www.community.net.nz/How-ToGuides/Campaign-Advocacy/Templates/Changeagency.htm.
Case studies from Australia. These are environmental campaigns in the broadest sense from nature conservation to transport and food campaigns.www.community.net.nz/How-ToGuides/Campaign-Advocacy/Case-Studies/change-agency-case-studies.htm.
(In Digital Strategy Hot Topic.)www.community.net.nz/HotTopics/Digital-Strategy/PublicationsResources/partnering.htm.
(In Digital Strategy Hot Topic.)www.community.net.nz/HotTopics/Digital-Strategy/Background/digital-opportunities-findings.htm.
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