Supporting Technology

Accidental Techie / Áksi dént'l  Téki

 Noun [C] INFORMAL

"A person who starts off in a post unrelated to ICT, then by evolution, choice, or necessity ends up with the role of looking after an organisation's technology needs." ictknowledgebase

Are you an Accidental Techie? If you can answer ‘yes' to this question, then help is at hand...

A group of Accidental Techies (like yourself) exist in other charity and community organisations in the local area, and meet regularly to discuss a range of practical and prevalent computer topics.  

Workshops are put together, specifically for people with no ICT background and our aim is for people to go back to their organisations having learnt something practical and beneficial about ICT

There's no selling involved; we aim to speak like ‘real' people do, and the focus of workshops are dictated by the attendees.

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The next workshop is scheduled for:

Tuesday 11th May 2010, 09:30 - 13:00

We shall be meeting at:

South Wye Learning Centre, Stanberrow Road, Hereford, HR2 7NG

At the workshop we'll be demonstrating how small voluntary and community organisations (VCO’s) can make the most out of Microsoft Outlook.

 This workshop is for anyone who has gone home at the end of the day with the dissatisfaction that things didn't go according to plan, or the way you wanted that and you've been largely ineffective.

The workshop will include the following aspects:

·         Avoid becoming a slave to Outlook, instead use it as an effective management tool

·         Best practices of using Outlook to manage workload, efficiently and effectively

·         Learn how to manage e-mails, folders, rules, calendar appointment, tasks and notes to get things done

The workshops are aimed at individuals, small groups or organisations who are either in a position of IT responsibility (such as an Accidental Techie) or aimed at people who use computers for their work, and would benefit from knowing how to use the Outlook suite more effectively

For all enquiries, or if you would like to attend this workshop, please contact Phyllis Lewis on 01432 267820 or e-mail: phyllisl@comfirst.org.uk  

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Other workshops that may be scheduled for the future include:

• Auditing & documenting ICT hardware and software
• ICT Planning
• Choosing an ICT supplier
• Budgeting for ICT
• Managing ICT
• Computer Networks
• Procuring ICT
• Discounted software
• Getting further sources of support/information
• Basic PowerPoint/Word training sessions
• Backing up data: in-house and offline
• Creating a website/Content Management System
• Registering domain names
• ICT Security
• Funding advice
• Open source software
• On-line calendaring
• Communicating using smart phones
• File management
• Searching the internet
• Outlook features
• PC maintenance