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Miles Maier
Lasa
London ICT Championshining on a shoestring | reading | 03 february 2010
Communications – do more for less with ICT
A champion for ICT in your region To see local infrastructure support organisations
• Operate more efficiently in its day to day work• Be more effective in its reach and influence
Voice, representation, advocacy Signposting sources of help Strategic support
Regional ICT Champions
Doing more with Less – the wrong way
Spending without budgeting Cutting back on support Cutting back on training
Remember that ICT underpins service delivery and should be acknowledged by full cost recovery.
Doing more with less – right way
Assess your ICT health-checks
Risk assessment living with risk
Budgeting calculate your ICT budget
Top Tips 1(on doing more with less)
Donation schemesCTXchange – www.ctxchange.org
Discount schemescharity software suppliers
Free and open source softwareOpen office
www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/opensourcesoftware
Top Tips 2(on doing more with less)
Event management - www.eventbrite.com
Free video conferencing - www.oovoo.com, Skype
Collaborate - Google Docs and Microsoft Live Office
Aggregate the news – RSS
Surveys and polls - SurveyMonkey
Arranging meetings – www.doodle.com
Top Tips 3(on doing more with less)
Knowledgebase www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk
Suppliers Directory www.suppliersdirectory.org.uk
NAVCA www.navca.org.uk
ICT Champions www.ictchampions.org.uk
Capacitybuilders www.improvingsupport.org.uk
UKRiders www.ukriders.info
AbilityNet www.abilitynet.org.uk
IT4Communities www.it4communities.org.uk
Doing more with less – communications
TASKS
Advocacy
Awareness
Fundraising
Inspiring action
Influencing change
NEW MEDIA Conversations Social networking Collaboration Content sharing Aggregation Tell your story
Thinking about new media
• Objectives - what
• Audience - who
• Strategy - pick a path that fits
• Implement - match the tool
• Sustain - measure, adjust
Old media - Web 1.0 . . .
. . static,not dynamic,no interaction, text heavy content.Information is fed AT viewers
New media - Web 2.0 . .
. . is interactive websites, comments, conversations and social networking WITH viewers encouraged
Video sharing - Youtube
Tells your story to funders, etc
Video/pictures - very powerful medium
Free
18.5m UK viewers
Social Networking - Facebook connect with other organisations and
supporters 19m UK or 300m global users interacts with other social media tools
like Twitter, blogs, Flickr
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7347628574
Niche Social Networking - ning
Create your own social network Free ( with ads) or $25 USD/month (no ads) Combines forums, video, photos, widgets, etc One login (open social)
http://navcanetworks.ning.com/
Social Networking/Twitter
combination of micro-blogging and social networking
Push out messages and join conversations Raise profile – 14m global users Free
http://twitter.com/telfordvolserve
Collaborative Working
Share documents and knowledge Collaborate on documents in real time Funding bids, newsletters, meetings, maps Google Docs, Zoho, Microsoft Live Office,
wikis, Doodle
GoogleDocs
Collaborative working - Doodle
Visit
Collaborative maps
RSS
Aggregates news to one place Subscribe to RSS feeds Save time, convenient Google Reader is free
Google Reader
Online & Text Donations - Red Nose Day
Ground breaking £5 text donation with 100%
going straight to good causes.
Every UK operator participated.
Over £20,000,000 donated by text.
Over £20,000,000 donated online.
Joining it all together…
The Bartons
Anna bought noses for her grandchildren at
Sainsbury’s and looked at their skins on
Bebo. They all watched the show on the
night and donated £50 by telephone.
£54