Shining On A Shoestring

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Miles Maier Lasa London ICT Champion shining on a shoestring | reading | 03 february 2010 Communications – do more for less with ICT

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A whistlestop tour of money and time saving tips on using technology and new media.Aimed at smaller UK non-profits.

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Miles Maier

Lasa

London ICT Championshining on a shoestring | reading | 03 february 2010

Communications – do more for less with ICT

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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

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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.

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Doing more with less – right way

Assess your ICT health-checks

Risk assessment living with risk

Budgeting calculate your ICT budget

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Thinking about new media

• Objectives - what

• Audience - who

• Strategy - pick a path that fits

• Implement - match the tool

• Sustain - measure, adjust

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Old media - Web 1.0 . . .

. . static,not dynamic,no interaction, text heavy content.Information is fed AT viewers

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New media - Web 2.0 . .

. . is interactive websites, comments, conversations and social networking WITH viewers encouraged

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Video sharing - Youtube

Tells your story to funders, etc

Video/pictures - very powerful medium

Free

18.5m UK viewers

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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

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www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7347628574

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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)

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http://navcanetworks.ning.com/

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Social Networking/Twitter

combination of micro-blogging and social networking

Push out messages and join conversations Raise profile – 14m global users Free

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http://twitter.com/telfordvolserve

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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

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GoogleDocs

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Collaborative working - Doodle

Visit

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Collaborative maps

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RSS

Aggregates news to one place Subscribe to RSS feeds Save time, convenient Google Reader is free

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Google Reader

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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.

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Joining it all together…

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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

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Miles MaierLondon Region ICT Champion

www.lasa.org.uk/ictchampion

[email protected]

020 7426 4496