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"News and views on community networking throughout Aotearoa."
The USA's Urban Institute and its project partner, The Center for What Works, identified a set of common outcomes and outcome indicators or 'common framework' in the measurement of performance for non-profits. The report suggests a common framework of outcome indicators for all non-profit programmes. www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/measuring-np-performance.htm.
The Rural Innovations Fund (RIF) has been set up to support innovation in rural health. Applications for the 2007/08 round of funding close on 31 March 2007. www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/rural-innovations-fund.htm.
New Zealand’s 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings was held on 7 March 2006. Final data from the 2006 Census is now available and can be accessed online. www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/2006-census-results.htm.
Rural Women New Zealand is incensed at the Government's whitewash response to a petition calling for the reimbursement of travel costs for home support workers. RWNZ's national president says "Government funding is woefully inadequate to meet travel time or expenses. The reimbursement of workers at an average of $1.50 an hour cannot possibly be labelled 'fair'. www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news/national/rural-travel-costs.htm.
Latest community news, events, jobs and ads are online at: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news.
Provides free personalised interviews for migrants / refugees from language backgrounds other than English. During the interview English language is assessed and referral is made to appropriate providers or support services. The service is also able to support employers and government agencies working with migrants / refugees. www.esolservices.co.nz.
A New Zealand based website offering forums, poems, inspiration, support & books about stress, parenting, addiction, relationships, divorce, anger management, motivation, counselling, depression, recovery & healing, anxiety, health and wellbeing. www.self-help.co.nz.
A supported employment service that supports people with experience of mental illness to choose, get and keep jobs and to secure real work, with real pay. Qualified employment consultants work with job seekers to explore their work passions and career dreams, and dedicated job coaches provide practical, day-to-day support at the level that is required by the job seeker. www.workwisetrust.co.nz.
National body for 54 branches throughout NZ representing hunters, looking after their rights, promoting safe firearms use; offer HUNTS training programs through some branches in conjunction with NZMSC. Range shooting facilities are also available through our branches. Hunting through the use of codes of ethics and field guidelines. A conservation minded body. www.deerstalkers.org.nz.
P.A.T.H.S. offers face-to-face professional counselling by donation for women and men adversely affected or struggling after a recent or past abortion. We also do presentations around post-abortion issues and offer training in a post-abortion recovery programme. www.postabortionpaths.org.nz.
Free monthly youth magazine and website. JET stands for Jobs, Education & Training and has a regular and in-depth career profile section. JET is distributed directly into secondary schools, universities, retail outlets, government departments and entertainment venues. JET is the proud sponsor of the Coke Careers expo, Smokefree Pacifica beats and Stage Challenge. www.jetmag.co.nz.
Tenants Protection Association provides advice, education and advocacy to promote and advance the rights and responsibilities, interests and welfare of tenants (in the Christchurch) region. It has useful summaries, checklists and links to support and educate rental tenants, boarders and flatmates with a view to increasing tenure options and building healthier stronger sustainable communities. www.tpa.org.nz.
You'll find these and more links at: www.community.net.nz/links.
These Events are coming up in the next few weeks. Find details at: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/events.
These Training events are coming up in the next few weeks. Find details at: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/training.
Internet Explorer 7, released a couple of months ago, added a feature that has been available in other web browsers for several years: tabbed browsing. And it's an incredibly popular feature with anyone who has used it.
To make sure that you can use tabs go to Tools > Internet Options > General. In the section Tabs (Change how web pages are displayed in tabs) click the Settings button. At the very least make sure the top checkbox is checked: Enable Tabbed Browsing, then click OK. If necessary, restart Internet Explorer.
You'll see many other settings in that same window. You can try them out and see what works best for you, but I suggest checking the boxes for Warn me when closing multiple tabs and Enable Quick Tabs. Whether you're new to using tabs or an old hand, it's easy to accidentally close the window, with all its tabs, when you only intended to close the tab you were reading. Quick Tabs are explained below.
Now you can go ahead and enjoy tabbed browsing.
Call up any web page, for example, www.community.net.nz/links. Perhaps you'd like to explore the lists of Disability links and Ethnic links. Instead of just clicking a link, hold down Control and click. The tab opens in the background. Add the Shift key to open a new tab in the foreground.
Note: see a list of all keyboard commands in the Getting Started with Internet Explorer section of Help.
When a link opens in a tab in the background it's hidden behind the page you already have open, with the exception of the tab icon at the top of the page, just below the toolbar. Each tab icon displays the title of the page it represents. Click on any tab to immediately see the contents of that page.
When you've finished with that page, and no longer require the tab, click the close control for the tab: the small x at the right-hand edge of the tab itself. The close control is only visible and active on the tab at the front.
The tab closes and you're back to looking at the page on the previous tab.
The window close control at the extreme top right of the window closes the entire window, together with all its tabs.
To create a new, empty tab either press Control T or click the blank tab at the right-hand end of the row of tabs. Once you have an empty tab active you can type an URL into the Address Bar, choose a Favorite or History item.
A black arrow is displayed at the left-hand end of the row of tabs, provided you have more than one tab open. Click and hold the arrow to display a list of all open pages. Select a page from the list to bring that page's tab to the front.
This is especially handy when you have multiple tabs open, as each tab icon in the toolbar becomes too narrow to display more than a few letters of the page title.
While a list of pages is useful, you can also choose to display all open pages as thumbnails. This is the Quick Tab feature. Either press Control Q or click the Quick Tab icon at the left end of the row of tabs — it's the tab with four squares on it. The Quick Tab icon is only visible when more than one tab is open.
The Quick Tab page displays thumbnail icons of all open pages. The more pages you have open in tabs, the smaller the thumbnails.
Hover over a page thumbnail and a tooltip appears, showing the title of the page. Click on a thumbnail to switch to the tab displaying that page.
You may wish to be able to open several web pages at once, for example, your home page, the CommunityNet Aotearoa home page, your banking login page.
Open the pages into tabs and then choose Add Tab Group to Favorites... from the Favorites menu. Enter a name for the group in the dialog box that appears, then click Add.
To open the group of pages click the Favorites Center button (the star at the left hand end of the row of tabs). The Favorites centre sidebar opens. Click the Favorites button at the top of the sidebar. Hover over the folder you wish to open and a blue arrow appears to the right of the folder name. Click the arrow. All the web pages open into separate tabs.
Many people have wondered what all the fuss is about tabbed browsing, until they try it out for themselves. Once they've used it a few times though, they are converted. Tabbed browsing offers a few more features than this Tip covers — be sure to check the Help pages for more options.
If you haven't yet upgraded to Internet Explorer 7, Tabbed Browsing alone is worth it.
[March 2007] Do you publish newsletters, fact sheets, resource kits or other materials, and distribute them either in print or via email or the web? If you do, you probably have to submit them to the National Library through the Legal Deposit system.
The National Library collects publications published in New Zealand, to ensure that this material is preserved, protected and made accessible (as appropriate) for all the people of New Zealand.
It has long been a legal requirement to send copies of printed works to Legal Deposit, but in 2006 the law was extended to off-line electronic documents and to Internet documents. This does not include whole websites, though.
A publisher is any person, group or organisation of any kind responsible for releasing, or making available, a public document to any section of the public – for sale or free of charge. This extends to individuals, clubs, churches and incorporated societies, etc, as well as commercial publishers.
An Internet document is an electronic document published on the Internet, whether or not there is any restriction on access to the document; and includes the whole or part of a website.
An Offline document is an electronic document that is not an Internet document, and includes an electronic document that is stored or used by means such as magnetic media (e.g. floppy disk, hard drive, audiotape, videotape), optical media (e.g. CD, DVD) or an electronic storage device (e.g. universal serial bus device (USB) or memory card).
There is quite a long list of publications, but community groups may be particularly interested by these:
Most of this short article has been taken directly, or with minor edits from the Legal Deposit web page at:
www.natlib.govt.nz/en/services/5legaldeposit.html
To find out more about your Legal Deposit obligations, how to supply documents and to have questions answered visit the web page above.
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