[Digital-Mentor] Updates, etc

Thu Nov 27 09:58:21 EST 2008

Thanks Paul. For those wanting to read about Navca's EoI, the comment
is here: http://digitalmentor.org/2008/11/expressions-of-interest-submitted/#comment-181

Dave

2008/11/27 Paul Webster <Paul.Webster at navca.org.uk>:
> David
>
> The EOI that has been submitted by NAVCA (summarised I hope on the bid
> neutral digitalmentor.org site) will be seeking to identify existing mentors
> and their skillsets as well as to train new mentors.
>
> Together this network would offer peer support and be available in their own
> area - or maybe travelling across the country if that was required, to offer
> face to face mentoring to other communities that have been identified (not
> sure if this will be CLG or 'communities-own' led) as prime beneficiaries.
> Digital Initiatives, such as those DC10plus have established that can be
> 'productised' would be available to roll out as a complete package
> with support from a mentor or through local training for someone from within
> a community to become a mentor.
>
> I am a big fan of G-Maps and could see this figuring as part of the answer -
> the map we have of CVS/LIOs using social media is a good example of maybe
> where interest is centred now -
> http://watfordgap.wordpress.com/using-web-20/
>
> Whilst I think any DMing activity should be based on areas of need and
> instances of multiple deprivation first, rather than where the DM skills lie
> ... having a ready to hand map of who can do what and where they are is a
> great idea and would help CLG and any bidder to this process!
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> Hi Dave - thanks for the roundup. On your last point about what's happening
> already ... how can we map and encourage existing on-the-ground activity?
>
> How easy would it be to enable a self-registering bottom-up EOI for digital
> mentors and DM projects, so we ended up with a G-map? Then bidders could for
> demonstrator partners, and DCLG could think about how to cultivate the whole
> landscape.
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> David
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> 2008/11/26 Dave Briggs <d at vebrig.gs>
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> A few bits to update people on:
>>
>> 1) The Expressions of interest should now have been submitted. The
>> Voicebox team have posted theirs on their blog:
>> http://voice-box.org.uk/2008/11/25/expression-of-interest-submitted/
>> and it sounds like NAVCA are bidding too, if Paul Webster's tweet is
>> anything to go by ;-) http://twitter.com/watfordgap/status/1024404246
>> Anyone else? There is a blog post here if you want to let people know:
>> http://digitalmentor.org/2008/11/expressions-of-interest-submitted/
>>
>> 2) Helen Milner also points on on Voicebox
>> http://voice-box.org.uk/2008/11/15/welcome-to-voicebox/#comment-10
>> that the bid deadline has been shifted to mid January from the end of
>> December, which seems sensible - many of us commented that the
>> timeframe seemed ludicrously tight originally. There are some slides
>> to look at with this and other information:
>> http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1069584.pdf
>>
>> 3) Another plug for Stuart's great idea of the short videos answering
>> the question WTF are digital mentors? See
>> http://digitalmentor.org/2008/11/what-is-a-digital-mentor/ We need
>> some more of these - I'll be doing mine soon. Who else is up for it?
>>
>> 4) It would be interesting to hear from people as to their thoughts
>> about the whole digital mentor project after the meeting at CLG? Nick,
>> Paul and I wonder aloud about this here:
>> http://digitalmentor.org/2008/11/more-video/ Does anyone else have
>> some thoughts? I would be especially interested to hear from those who
>> are already 'doing' digital mentoring in one way or another - can you
>> see the project changing things for you at all?
>>
>> Cheers everyone - let's keep the conversation going!
>>
>> Dave
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