Get Online Week 2013
VANEL and National Get Online Week 2013
The week starting Monday 14th October is national Get Online Week. VANEL is a firm believer that each and every voluntary and community organisation in North East Lincolnshire should be familiar with the latest technology, be encouraged to make the most of it, and provided with opportunities to make efficient and effective use of digital technologies. So, using Get Online Week as an excuse, we’re hosting a number of technology focussed sessions over a couple of days which any of our Members and Friends are invited to attend.
Everything will take place at the VANEL offices at the Elms (22 Abbey Road, Grimsby).
All sessions are free unless marked otherwise, but room space will be limited, so booking is essential. Please let me know if you are wanting to attend any of the sessions. The week is essentially a ‘non-conference’ so there are a range of different sessions that you may attend – you don’t need to come for the whole event. Please let me know exactly which sessions you will be available for.
If space is very limited we may need to restrict attendees to one per organisation. In any case, attendees must be staff or volunteers from VANEL Members and Friends organisations.
There’s no lunches or food available (we’re not funded for this), but we’ll have tea and coffee available.
Read on for the timetable or click here to download the text as a .pdf document.
Tuesday 15th
9.30am – 10.15am – session 1
“The Voluntary and Community Sector and the Digital by Default environment”
Keynote presentation and discussion to kick off our Get Online week by Karl Elliott.
Why is technology so important? What are the barriers we are trying to overcome? What can we all do with technology right now to make what we do better or do better things? What is the future going to look like (and it’s just around the corner)? How can we all avoid being left behind?
10.30am – 11.30am – session 2
Good Ideas Workshop
We’ll share all our favourite technical tools, tips and techniques. We’ll share how we and others have been using technology to do a lot of things that little bit better. And we hope you’ll contribute to the discussions to share your own tips and ideas.
This workshop is a great chance for everyone to share ideas and learn from each other about the great ways technology can help us all.
11.30am – 1pm – session 3
Technical Surgeries session
A chance for a very informal chat about a range of technical topics. So if you have questions or want to learn a bit more then we’ll have a number of VANEL’s technically competent staff hanging around to talk to you or demonstrate ideas.
So if you’ve been to the morning workshops, hang around for the Surgeries session to ask your questions. Or if you can’t get along earlier, why not pop into the Surgeries to find ideas to help you.
During the surgeries there will be staff on hand to specifically deal with:
– Technology in general – hardware, software, networks etc. The nuts and bolts of your day to day technology.
– “PC’s are not your only option” – explore different technical ideas – Mac’s, Linux, Chromebooks, tablets, mobile etc
– “Meet Asana” – Asana is one of our favourite tools of the moment. You could use it too. Have a chat about how it works.
– “A slice of Raspberry Pi” – a £35 computer? What is it? How can it be used? Myths vs reality? Would it be useful for your organisation? Get hands-on.
– Social Media surgery – Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest, Vine, LinkedIn, Tumblr. What do you use? Do you have questions? Come and have a chat.
2pm -2.30pm – session 4
CTX Masterclass
Registered charities can get hold of extraordinarily cheap software via the Charity Technology Exchange Programme. The scheme helps charities save £1000s on software. This masterclass will explain everything you need to know about the scheme and how to access it. If you’re not already using CTX then this free 30 minutes of advice could save you a fortune.
4pm – 6pm – session 5
WebClub
This is our scheduled fortnightly WebClub session. Members will be there, but non-members are welcome to pop along to this session. WebClub is for those people building or maintaining websites for their own organisations & we provide training, support and advice.
We use WordPress a lot with our Members and this session will be a review of a lot of the latest tools and techniques that can be useful for WordPress developers. We’ll also be doing our usual troubleshooting of our members web projects.
Wednesday 16th
9.30am – 11.30am – session 6
“Cooking up a Website”
Our popular, occasional, introduction to the world of websites and web-development. This training session is great for complete beginners to the world of web. We look at all the components of a website, the tools and techniques and the different approaches, in a practical, non-profit oriented approach. Hopefully, everyone leaves with deeper understanding on how websites work and how their own organisation get their web projects started or progressed.
1pm – 3pm – session 7
“WordPress for Beginners”
£5 per person
This is an intensive two-hour training session introducing all the basics of WordPress as a web development tool. (14% of the world’s websites are built using WordPress, which is essentially free). If you’d like to explore WordPress, then this session will explain everything you need to know about the basics to get you started.
Places will be very limited for both these training sessions, so please book early.
Friday 18th
10am – 12noon – session 8
IT Volunteers wanted / offered
We know there are people out there with IT skills that they’d like to put to use. We also know there are plenty of groups with IT needs (but perhaps that can’t properly articulate them). We’re looking into how we can put the two groups together. So we’re inviting people to attend this session from either camp – those with the skills who’d volunteer them, and groups who think they’d like support. We’ll use the session to help us work out a good way to pair people up.
If you’d like to get involved or need support, drop in at any time between 10am and noon for a chat.
You are welcome to come to any parts of the two days of activities.
Places will be very limited for the specific training sessions and restricted for the other sessions.
Please therefore book in advance – telling us which session(s) you are expecting to come to.
If sessions are full on the day then we may need to turn away attendees who have not booked.
To book simply email karl@vanel.org.uk
or call Karl Elliott or Vicky Campbell on 01472 235311