[Digital-Mentor] Updates, etc

Fri Nov 28 09:23:15 EST 2008

More video, recent footage of stuff currently happening. Taken at the free
social media surgery, Birmingham 26/11/08.

http://www.vimeo.com/2369933

I hope we see more video and audio being used to record whats going on out
there. I think we need to be proactive in a 'practice what you preach' kinda
way.

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Dave Briggs <db at davepress.net> wrote:

> 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!
> >
> > _____________________________
> >
> > Paul Webster
> >
> > Regional ICT Infrastructure Support and Development
> >
> > A : NAVCA, The Tower, 2 Furnival Square, Sheffield, S1 4QL
> >
> > T : 0114 289 3977 (DD)                 F : 0114 278 7004
> >
> > W : www.navca.org.uk                     B :
> > http://watfordgap.wordpress.com/
> >
> > E : paul.webster at navca.org.uk     Twitter : @watfordgap
> >
> > ______________________________
> >
> >
> >
> > In each region there is an ICT Champion to Co-ordinate and promote
> voluntary
> > sector ICT - find out more on the blog website.
> >
> > ______________________________
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > NAVCA (National Association for Voluntary and Community Action) is the
> > national voice of local third sector infrastructure in England. Our
> members
> > work with 164,000 local third sector groups and organisations that
> provide
> > community services, regenerate neighbourhoods, promote volunteering and
> > tackle discrimination in partnership with local public bodies.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: list-bounces at digitalmentor.org [mailto:
> list-bounces at digitalmentor.org]
> > On Behalf Of David Wilcox
> > Sent: 26 November 2008 13:33
> > To: Email based discussions of the Digital Mentor role
> > Subject: Re: [Digital-Mentor] Updates, etc
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > David
> >
> > 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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