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The CommunityNet Aotearoa monthly newsletter.
"News and views on community networking throughout Aotearoa."
The number of people counted in New Zealand on census night was 4,116,900 — an increase of 296,150 people (7.8 percent) since the 2001 Census, which compares with an increase of 139,203 (3.8 percent) between the 1996 and 2001 censuses. 75 percent of people were in the North Island. For the first time, the number of people in the South Island exceeded one million. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/2006-census-first-results.htm.
Celebrations throughout New Zealand and a book marked the 20th anniversary of the Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS). www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/cogs-twenty-year-birthday.htm.
Budget 2006 centres around three themes: Economic Transformation; Families — Young and Old; National Identity. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/nz-budget-2006.htm.
Skylight now has 5 new resources available for children post suicide, post homicide, post trauma and for anxiety support. We hope they will fill some current resource gaps for kids facing really tough scenarios. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/post-trauma-resources-for-kids.htm.
The Rise and Rise of NGOs; UK Report on the Voluntary Sector; A more democratic selection process; Governments and Communities in Partnership; Eco Summit 2007; and more. (With thanks to ANGOA)
www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/may-06-international.htm.
Do you, or a group that you're involved with, have something to say to the people of New Zealand? If you're actively involved with an issue, be it social, sexual, political, family or whatever, a door is about to open again on TV3 Network Television who are looking for people for our new series of "Open Door" television documentaries. www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News/National/open-door-new.htm.
Latest community news, events, jobs and ads are online at: www.community.net.nz/CommunityCentre/News.
The goal of the National arm of 2020 Trust is to provide thought and action leadership on community use of ICTs throughout New Zealand. The National Trust is supported by a number of regional trust and affiliated organisations. www.2020.org.nz.
Parnell Community Trust provides a wide range of community services from early childhood education, programmes for children, after school and during school holidays, learning and leisure programmes for people of all ages and interests, and aims to build strong relationships within the community it serves. www.parnell.org.nz.
This innovative site was created by the Canterbury Pasifika ICT Steering Group as an information and communication tool for Pasifika peoples. It has community based ICT training, events, people, family trees, blogs, RSS feeds and invites visitor input. There are sub-sites for Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. www.canterburypasifika.org.nz/pasifika.
Launched in May 2006, this website has useful resources for parents of children up to age 8, including information, activities, tools and a discussion forum. With three of Australia's leading early-childhood agencies at its core, the website was developed with the support of an extensive network and the Australian Government. raisingchildren.net.au.
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. OA caters for all who have a problem with their eating, such as compulsive overeaters, anorexics and bulimics. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive overeating and to carry the message of recovery to those who still suffer. www.oaregion10.org.
Taj Global Understanding is a non-profit foundation that seeks to help creating a world which fosters an appreciation and an understanding of humanity with its global volunteer programs in India. www.tajglobalunderstanding.org.
The Werry Centre is a national mental health Centre which is housed in the Psychological Medicine Department at the University of Auckland. The Centre focuses on Workforce Development, Teaching and Research into Child and Adolescent Mental Health. www.werrycentre.org.nz.
An independent, not for profit media source that reports on issues of world poverty and inequality; focuses attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations; debates and campaigns for the radical changes necessary if basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met. www.newint.org.
ODI is a think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. It aims to provide high-quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate. Its web site has several useful research and communication toolkits, and research in many areas. www.odi.org.uk.
Habitat for Humanity welcome all people to join them as they build simple, decent houses in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter. www.habitatnz.co.nz.
The Social Services Industry Training Organisation. www.tkaito.co.nz.
Social Edge connects social entrepreneurs, their partners and allies to discuss cutting-edge issues shaping the field. It is committed to fostering frank dialogue, building mutual respect and creating a sense of community among those in the social sector. www.socialedge.org.
The Families Commission advocates for the interests of New Zealand families in general (rather than individual families or cases), promoting their needs and interests to government and the wider community. It also promotes, commissions, and publishes research into family issues and contributes to the government's policy development processes on family-related issues. www.nzfamilies.org.nz.
Energy Trusts of New Zealand is the national organisation for 24 energy trusts. The energy trusts, on behalf of communities or consumers, own shares in companies that operate electricity networks (lines businesses). www.etnz.org.nz.
You'll find these and more links at: www.community.net.nz/Links.
There's a big problem with long URLs (web addresses): they quite often get 'broken' when you include them in an email; no-one wants to include them in printed material because they're too long to fit a page and anyway a reader would have an awful job typing them into a web browser, and you can't recite them during a phonecall.
Take the URL for the CommunityNet Aotearoa Maori links page as an example (Webmaster's note: This horrible URL is generated by our Content Management System. We'll try — again — to get this shortened.): http://www.community.net.nz/Links/link.htm?g={31BC0202-E240-4788-90FD-E77B71EE991F}.
Try clicking it in your email program (if you're reading this in an email newsletter). Does it work? Chances are, it doesn't because the email software has broken it up over several lines and added spaces or return characters along the way.
Fortunately, it's easy to transform that long and unwieldy URL into a nice short one for including in an email, text message or printed brochure, or explaining in a phone call:
tinyurl.com.
Take that long URL we had earlier and paste it into the form on the TinyURL page, click the Make TinyURL! button and something like this will be produced:
tinyurl.com/hyyl6.
That's reduced it from a problematic 83 characters to an easy 24. Try the above URL and it should take you directly to our Maori Links list.
Next time you want to tell a friend about a cool web page you've visited take a moment to transform a long URL to a Tiny URL before you send the email or make the phone call.
[June 2006] Let people know how to get to your offices or public event.
If you're running an event, or just want people to be able to find your offices, you may like to provide a map. A New Zealand map service called ZoomIn can help you out with that.
First visit the site and use the Search box to locate the street, or even building number and street, for example, the home of Communitynet Aotearoa, the Department of Internal Affairs, is at 46 Waring Taylor Street, Wellington.
ZoomIn easily finds that address, and displays a map, with a location marker. If I create a free account and log in I can permanently add a marker and description for that location, making it even easier for others to find. Try a ZoomIn search now for Department of Internal Affairs and you should find it immediately.
Once you've found your location click the link in the Use this map section at bottom left (you may need to scroll down). The page you go to explains in full how to add maps to your website or simply links to maps. Or you can copy the link it gives you and include it in emails, texts or printed matter. Here's the link I created:
www.zoomin.co.nz/nz/wellington/wellington+central/waring+taylor+street/46/-department+of+internal+affairs.
Of course, it would be sensible to use this month's Communitynet Tip: TinyURL to make that URL a lot shorter, like this: tinyurl.com/efdu6.
Go further and add a photo of your location so visitors know exactly how to find you. Here's an example of a Wellington landmark, with photo and description: tinyurl.com/o2ylu.
Past Website tips are all available on CommunityNet Aotearoa.
New in the Marketing and Promotion How-to Guide is this toolkit for researchers and civil society organisations. www.community.net.nz/How-ToGuides/Marketing/PublicationsResources.
www.community.net.nz/How-ToGuides.
In May 2006 there were: Visits: A new record at 28,895 (April: 23,211).
New community items: 70 were sent in (April: 62).
62 new items from the community including:
The most popular file download was: Managing Well catalogue: 519 downloads.
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