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A $30,000 a year scholarship is being created to encourage te reo Mâori speakers working in other careers to retrain as teachers, Associate Education Minister Parekura Horomia announced. Mr Horomia said the current range of teacher recruitment scholarships are being replaced with a single, flexible and more responsive scholarship.
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The Children’s Rights Information network (CRIN) – is calling on NGOs world-wide to sign a petition asking the UN member states to fully implement the recommendations of the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children and to establish a Special representative to the Study to work with the UN system.
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Volunteering Canterbury offers free sessions with an experienced Volunteer Co-ordinator who can support you in your work with volunteers.
/communitycentre/news/national/volun-mentoring.htm
Family violence is a community problem. We all have a responsibility to support efforts to put an end to it in our communities. The Campaign for Action on Family Violence is a major initiative of the Taskforce for Action on Violence within Families. The Ministry of Social Development and the Families Commission are jointly leading the $14 million campaign.
/communitycentre/news/national/family-violence.htm
If you’d like to become involved in the initiative to take promoting generosity in New Zealand to a whole new level, the generosity project team wants to hear from you. Philanthropy New Zealand, Volunteering New Zealand and the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector are inviting communities of interest to come together to talk about a sustainable, multi-sectoral approach to encourage and support giving and volunteering at both national and local levels.
/communitycentre/news/national/generosity.htm
The working paper series endeavours to make publicly available information from several series of studies, particularly research into community organisations and the social services they provide within the Waitakere region.
/communitycentre/news/national/aut-study.htm
The Statement of Government Intentions for an Improved Community-Government Relationship is driving the OCVS team’s approach to three key collaborative projects underway in our 2007/08 work programme. The projects will address challenging issues highlighted again and again by the community and voluntary sector.
/communitycentre/news/national/key-challenges.htm
A new toolkit to help manage flexible working arrangements and work-life balance has been launched by the Minister of Labour and Small Business Minister. The toolkit represents the experience of New Zealand managers whose staff already use flexible work, and offers practical advice to other employers on topics such as roster management, job sharing or working from home.
/communitycentre/news/national/work-life-kit.htm
The NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants' Not-for-Profit Sector Advisory Committee (NFPSAC) has prepared the material for the web. The NFPSAC is a committee set up to assist with mainstreaming not-for-profit issues and activities in the Institute and to progress a work programme intended to ensure the availability of key business tools for the not-for-profit sector.
/communitycentre/news/national/non-profit-accounts.htm
Around 200 people gathered in Wellington yesterday to toast the finalists and winners of the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards. The Awards covered the whole gamut from the creative sector to government.
/communitycentre/news/national/open-source-awards.htm
With the Digital Strategy now just over two years old, government is reviewing its relevancy. Government wishes to encourage and enable debate about New Zealand’s digital future and provide an opportunity for more focus on the business sector and communities, supported by the public sector.
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A major new fund will assist community projects of regional and national significance through to completion. Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker unveiled the Lottery Significant Projects Fund, which is planned to provide $16 million annually over the next three years to complete major projects of importance to the wider community, region or nation.
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Latest community news, events, jobs and ads are online at: www.community.net.nz/communitycentre/news.
For art news and events, new artists and inspiration from Aotearoa's East Coast. Creative Tairawhiti aims to support our creative community by facilitating professional development initiatives, arts events and creating new opportunities in the creative sector.
http://www.tairawhitiarts.net
The Federation is the national body of Dutch Clubs in New Zealand focusing on the interests and welfare of Dutch Settlers in New Zealand.
http://www.netherlands-societies.co.nz
The website for the Maltese Association of Wellington, including the official newsletter for members of the association and the members of the Friends Of Malta Society New Zealand.
http://www.allmalta.com/wellington/index.html
Free online magazine for those interested in the practice or study of some of the worlds oldest religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, and Paganism. We also publish articles on philosophy, history, esoteric material and other topics relevant to traditional cultures. Published quarterly, printed subscriptions are also available.
http://www.primordialtraditions.com
This section of the Inland Revenue website has information about KiwiSaver for employers. Sections provide information about KiwiSaver, how it works, how employers can administer KiwiSaver and keep up-to-date with the latest information on the scheme.
http://www.ird.govt.nz/kiwisaver/employers
The Website Design Network is a resource that has been set up to provide you with important design information. The information has been provided to help you understand the different aspects of website design. With this information you will be able to make informed decisions regarding your website and will also help you communicate effectively your vision and specifications to your website designer.
http://www.website-design-network.com
Continuing Professional and Personal Development and networking for Accountants and Affiliate Group for the economic and social development of our great country New Zealand. An Affiliate Group includes people who are working in our areas of expertise, but do not meet our criteria for membership. Participation in this group entitles them to receive newsletters and invitations to Association’s functions and seminars.
http://www.nzaai.org.nz
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It can be hard enough to keep track of your own schedule, without also tracking family members, work meetings and external events such as public holidays.
Keeping your own calendar on your own computer is one solution, but then you may not have it with you when you're away from home or the office. Synchronising the calendar with your cellphone or iPod certainly helps and can be very useful.
But what about allowing your partner, kids, or friends to see what's on your schedule? Or for you to see what's on theirs? If your calendar's on your computer then that probably can't happen, unless you happen to have the right combination of 'stuff'.
Google Calendar now plays an important part in keeping me organised. It can help you too.
Sign up for a free Google Account:
https://www.google.com/accounts
This gives you access to many tools, including the calendar. The calendar has all kinds of useful features, including reminders, but the feature I want to highlight here is Sharing.
Log in to your Google calendar and click on the Settings link. On the General tab, check the various settings to make sure they are correct --- eg Country: New Zealand --- or how you want them to be --- eg Date and Time Formats.
On the Calendars tab click the 'Share this calendar' link. Choose the option to 'Share all information on this calendar with everyone', deal with the alerts, and Save the setting.
Visit the Help section to find out how to import items from the calendar on your computer.
To create a new event in your Google calendar click on either the Create Event or Quick Add link at top left of the window, or just double click on the Calendar itself.
Fill in the details in the window that appears and save your changes. Now find your event on the calendar and click it. Click 'edit event details' in the 'bubble' that appears to display all the settings for the Event.
The Edit Event window shows a lot of options for setting reminders, inviting other people, and even looking up a map to see where the meeting is held, and how to get there. In particular, look at the Privacy setting. Set events to be Public or Private.
Now Share your calendar. Go to the Settings link. Under calendar Settings, click the Calendars tab and then click on the link for the name of the Calendar. The Calendar Details window appears. Scroll to the Calendar Address section at the bottom of the window.
You'll see two 'badges': one labelled XML and the other labelled iCal. Click on either one to display a window with an address you can copy.
Send the address to people you want to share the calendar with. They can subscribe, and set their software to check regularly for updates. Any events you marked as Private will not be displayed in their calendar. Events you mark Public, will be displayed.
Google Help provides a lot of information about all aspects of using and sharing calendars.
There various ways to keep an online Google Calendar synchronised with calendar software on your own computer, cellphone or iPod, so if you want to do that check Google Calendar Help or do a search.
With an online calendar you can edit at it from any Internet-connected device, anywhere, any time. And, of course, you can share it. Try it out and see if it's useful for you.
If you have something to say, make sure you say it on your own website. If you don't publish your own news you risk losing visitors, audience, readers, and potential sponsors, funders, volunteers and clients.
Over recent months I've been doing a lot of research about community groups. I've been looking for interesting projects and initiatives that make use of Internet technology.
Time and again I find a reference to something a group has done, only to discover they don't mention it on their website.
If I search around more I may find it mentioned on news websites, on partner websites, or in passing on some random other website.
I end up frustrated. If I write about the interesting item on the Groupings blog, I probably link only to the website where I found the information. Sometimes, because good information just isn't available, I don't write about the initiative at all.
If your organisation has a website, then make sure it has a News page, and keep that page right up to date. Don't *remove* News when it grows a little old, but archive it so visitors can still find out what you've been doing.
For best results include a blog on your website. Blogging tools such as WordPress make it very simple to add news items and have them picked up by search engines and aggregators.
Interested parties can easily follow your activities, through a blog's RSS feed.
Blogging software automatically archives older material, keeping it available for researchers and curious members of the public.
If you don't publish your own news on your own website you're throwing away a valuable opportunity.
Don't be late to the party either. Bloggers in particular capture information very quickly once it appears, and publish it to their own blogs. If you don't publish your news for several days after it first appears elsewhere then you've missed your best opportunity to make the most of the publicity. Horse bolted. Stable door shut.
Websites endure; links endure. Your 'front page' news of October turns into 'archived' news of 2007. If someone links to your item at http://www.example.com/news and then the item moves to http://www.example.com/news/2007/10 you lose your readers, your potential friends and your allies.
Blogs have the advantage of giving each item its own permanent URL, known as a permalink.
If your organisation is active it has news.
If your organisation has news, publish it! Promptly!
If you've published news, give it a permalink and archive it!
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