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Reduce IT costs in the current economic climate - Worcester

16/09/2009 - 09:30
16/09/2009 - 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:

Wednesday 16th September 2009, 09:30 - 13:00

We shall be meeting at:

Perdiswell Young Peoples' Leisure Club, Perdiswell Park, Droitwich Road, Worcester, WR3 7SN

At the workshop we'll demonstrating how small voluntary and community organisations (VCO’s) can save money through making use of free-on-line tools which will enable to you to work more efficiently with your customers and contacts, as well as exploring the idea of having a good quality IT induction in place to ensure that staff and volunteers using IT systems, can use them effectively.

The workshop will take a look at the Microsoft Office Live environment; provide a hands-on demonstration, and equip attendees with the knowledge required to put a good quality IT induction in place.

The workshops are aimed at individuals, small groups or organisations who are either in a position of IT responsibility (such as an Accidental Techies) or aimed at people who use computers for their work, but often work out of the office, or away from their colleagues and would benefit from knowing how to share files more easily.

For any 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