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Accidental Techies workshop: Herefordshire

04/12/2008 - 11:00
04/12/2008 - 13:00
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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:

Thursday 4th December 2008, 11:00 - 13:00

We shall be meeting at the Hereford Deaf Direct offices:

Kemble House, 37 Broad Street, Hereford HR4 9AR

At the workshop we'll be focussing on how to increase the efficiency of PC's by:

  • Physically upgrading a computers RAM (memory)
  • Removing unwanted\unnecessary software applications
  • Ensuring programs don't get loaded on startup
  • Removing temporary internet files
  • Using alternative ‘memory efficient' software applications
  • System maintenance (defrag, scheduled tasks, Microsoft \ anti virus updates etc)
  • Scripting

For all enquiries, or if you would like to attend this workshop, please contact Phyllis Lewis on 01432 267820 to book your place.

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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