Comments for Digital Activist's Blog http://dainproject.com Tackling Technology Together! Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Workshops in the basement by angeliquebodart http://dainproject.com/2012/02/17/workshops-in-the-basement/#comment-1415 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:43:19 +0000 http://dainproject.com/?p=2179#comment-1415 Hello everyone.

For those of you interested in setting up your own community group I’ve found a few links and organisations that can offer support.

In Northamptonshire the Northampton CVS offer a similar service to the Nottingham CVS for new groups. Check it out.
http://www.nvconline.org.uk/index.php/group-support/local-support-a-development

Online there’s the Resource Centre website with lots of good tips and some examples of completed Constitutions etc for you to refer to. There are a few other websites out there but I think this one, although not very pretty, has a better collection of resources.
http://www.resourcecentre.org.uk/information

Also, a couple of websites suggested at the event for up-to-date information on funding and grants available, and tips for applying, were:
http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk/Default.aspx
http://www.focusonfunding.org.uk/

]]> Comment on Workshops in the basement by digitalactivist http://dainproject.com/2012/02/17/workshops-in-the-basement/#comment-1414 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:49:15 +0000 http://dainproject.com/?p=2179#comment-1414 Many thanks to everyone for attending on Friday. We started lots of interesting discussions around how best to present and represent the skills and experiences gained by DAs during their time involved in DAIN. As we discussed, many of these skills can strengthen CVs and interview answers when applying for paid work, whatever the sector. DACs will be exploring this further with DAs in future one to one reviews and team meetings. We are also able to give you feedback on draft job applications and highlight ways your DAIN experiences can strengthen your applications. As discussed if you would like to discuss this with me further either individually or as part of additional workshops please get intouch and we will do all we can to help.

]]> Comment on Burning files to CD – 31/1/12 by Steve Stocks (@infostocksy) http://dainproject.com/2012/02/10/burning-files-to-cd-31112/#comment-1410 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:13:33 +0000 http://digitalactivist.wordpress.com/?p=2126#comment-1410 It’s VERY rare for me to burn CD’s / DVD’s these days – I try to encourage people to use USB memory sticks – just far more convenient, reusable, very cheap, just work and quickly drop in a pocket, purse or wallet – picked this one up the other day http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=B003MWJKVI&x=0&y=0 The only downside, especially with the kids, is with them being so small they can tend to loose them.

]]> Comment on Burning files to CD – 31/1/12 by Matthew McVeagh http://dainproject.com/2012/02/10/burning-files-to-cd-31112/#comment-1407 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:07:43 +0000 http://digitalactivist.wordpress.com/?p=2126#comment-1407 Nottingham DA here. Older CD burners don’t have CD-RW (rewritable) capacity, but pretty much all recent ones do. The thing about not allowing the files to be added to or changed is only relevant if that would be a problem, such as if material is copyrighted or if there are similar intellectual property rules such as requiring a set of materials to be present in entirety rather than partially. On the other hand, another reason to prefer using non-rewritable CD-R CDs is that they’re cheaper – altho the lower price ranges will also be lower quality and will *not* be permanently undamaged as was once believed.

]]> Comment on Happy New Year! Chocolate for Comments! by simsde http://dainproject.com/2012/01/13/happy-new-year-chocolate-for-comments/#comment-1390 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:10:16 +0000 http://dainproject.com/?p=2114#comment-1390 I had a client on Tuesday who wanted to incorporate some pictures in a Word document. I found that Word had all its functionality grayed out apart from printing. Office 2007 had been downloaded onto the machine but no product key was entered. It was suggested that Open Office could be loaded onto the machine as it’s Freeware. Are there any reasons why I couldn’t do this for them? I’d be interested in views on this as I had another issue when anti-virus software wasn’t working on another machine and it would be useful, not to say imperative to load something like AVG free edition.

]]> Comment on The East Midlands Volunteering Conference by Gary Fisher http://dainproject.com/2011/11/26/the-east-midlands-volunteering-conference/#comment-1389 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:48:08 +0000 http://dainproject.com/?p=2090#comment-1389 Who is the best person to contact about voluntering my daughter is looking for work such as this on her summer break from uni

]]> Comment on Happy New Year! Chocolate for Comments! by digitalactivist http://dainproject.com/2012/01/13/happy-new-year-chocolate-for-comments/#comment-1387 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:44:53 +0000 http://dainproject.com/?p=2114#comment-1387 Hi Linda

Thanks for your comment – you win the biggest bar of chocolate as the first to make a suggestion. As a Derby girl I’m aware of some of the lingo peculiar to our region, and you often don’t realise it is local until you go out of town. I know we have DAs from far and wide so would be interested to hear what the rest of the team have to say about this too.

Thanks again for your comment, bw Andria

]]> Comment on Happy New Year! Chocolate for Comments! by lindasdainblog http://dainproject.com/2012/01/13/happy-new-year-chocolate-for-comments/#comment-1382 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:59:58 +0000 http://dainproject.com/?p=2114#comment-1382 Different regions have different dialogue for example in Leicester where I live. You may be greeted with the saying ay up me duck which means hello. Ark at it! means listen to something. Does your area have a word or saying you would like to share?

]]> Comment on Eurolink Day 2011 by Lisa http://dainproject.com/2011/11/02/2012/#comment-1307 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:42:00 +0000 http://dainproject.com/?p=2012#comment-1307 I think the following might be of interest to you all in regard to an excellent example of a transnational digital inclusion project targeting teachers and trainers http://www.ieducate.eu where you can register on the site.

Also look at http://secondlife.com and

]]> Comment on The East Midlands Volunteering Conference by digitalactivist http://dainproject.com/2011/11/26/the-east-midlands-volunteering-conference/#comment-1305 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:30:12 +0000 http://dainproject.com/?p=2090#comment-1305 Just me on this occassion (Andria)

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