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Opportunity Name: new ideas for older people computer training?
Skill Type: Training
Region: South East
Locality: Portsmouth
Postcode: PO1
Virtual: No

Description: This Portsmouth charity provides services that allow older people to continue living independent and fulfilled lives in the community. IT facilities at the Centre encourage social interaction and reduces social isolation. The IT is very popular and volunteers like yourselves come in to hold sessions and help out. Can you spare half a day once a week (or similar) to help with computers for fun, learning and communication? Current subjects taught are oral history, online shopping, government websites, genealogy and anything else that interests you or the older people using the centre is welcomed. Enthusiasm and patience are key requirements and to be able to commit regular time. Sorry, only local volunteers are sought as there is a very restricted travel expenses budget.

Opportunity Name: dotnetnuke CMS website - small additions please [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: sw15
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based near Barnes station and East Putney tube station provides oral health training to low resource communities (mainly in developing countries) by providing a free oral health training manual & relevant information. An iT4C volunteer has made a very good dotnetnuke website for them. They are now looking for additions 1) research & implement a way for practitioners to communicate with each other about the resources (Facebook, LinkedIn?) 2) a page of photos to help with diagnoses 3) addition of an annotated map 4) someone to help with training for one member of staff in the use of the CMS to update the site. We estimate to complete all three aspects of this project would take about 5 working days, including requirements and options research with the organization. You may wish to spend a little longer on the CMS training. Please feel free to only assist with one aspect.

Opportunity Name: Zen Expert Needed to Resuscitate Website
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: E2
Virtual: No

Description: This national charity based near Bethnal Green tube station promotes democratic education in which pupils have a voice and share real power in making decisions about their school and educational practice. They had a website which comprised a forum, allowed members to upload videos, allowed sign up and distribution of e-newsletters, and allowed staff to update the website. It used ZEN CMS and they think other ZEN technologies. About a year ago, the company that built their website and hosted it ceased trading. A volunteer made a back-up of the site including the database that supported it, but they've been unable to find someone to re-implement the site from the back-up. They have a temporary website with the same look and feel, but there's no forum, e-newsletter facilities, or CMS. They are looking for a ZEN expert who can: - access the old database for forum content, contacts, and video links, advise them whether the old site can be restored, restore it if this seems like the best option or provide equivalent facilities in the new website, not necessarily using ZEN. A CRB check will be vital for this role, please allow plenty of time for the charity to request this on your behalf.

Opportunity Name: Mentor and Make Improvements to Ning-based Website
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: W9
Virtual: No

Description: Here's an exciting and unusual opportunity, and a bit of a challenge, that will certainly look good on your CV. This charity based near Queen's Park tube station works to achieve positive change in London's most deprived neighbourhoods. Their mission is to design and deliver innovative, sustainable programmes that enable individuals and communities to fulfil their potential through learning, employment and enterprise. They offer a careers advice service run by young volunteers aged 16 to 25. They have 2 other offices in Marylebone and Maida Vale. Each office has networked PCs running XP and MS Office, and the offices are connected by a WAN. They've set up a website using Ning. They need you to mentor them to show them how to configure Ning, administer the "modules", how to develop the website, and how to change the CSS, to make it more user-friendly, and how to set up groups and sub-groups. The young volunteers are in on Thursdays and Fridays during the day. They're hoping you're a Ning guru, with good CSS, and an eye for design. They've built a few templates, but they need to be easier for users to use, to upload their work experiences.

Opportunity Name: Extend Website MySQL Database and Intranet Functionality
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: Hoxton
Postcode: N1
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based near Old Street tube station is an independent research, analysis, and advocacy organisation focusing on global nuclear disarmament, pressing political leaders to endorse the nuclear weapon-free world vision, facilitating the exchange of information and analysis on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues, and promoting public awareness. They have a small network of PCs running XP and Vista and MS Office 2007. Their website newsletter subscription page stores contact details in a MySQL database. They would like you to review their needs, extend the database to include fundraising information, and create intranet webpages for staff to be able to maintain the data and report on the data in a few different ways. There is an associated opportunity to redesign their website.

Opportunity Name: near Shipley, web training please [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Advice
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside
Locality: Shipley
Postcode: BD18
Virtual: No

Description: A West Yorkshire Community Sports centre is keen to learn how they should be getting their information online. They serve their community from age 5-80+ and need some training to get them up to speed. Web savvy person needed to help local sports club get more familiar with ways to keep their website up to date. Training required in a CMS (apologies, we don't know which one) and to answer a few 'how to' questions. Are you near Saltaire, W Yorkshire and do you have some time to help? They will need you to meet with them to discuss what they need and deliver 3 or 4 sessions. Thank you

Opportunity Name: Advise on accounting package and help implement
Skill Type: Consultancy
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside
Locality: Harrogate
Postcode: BD23
Virtual: No

Description: This Harrogate charity is a learning and support centre for people with a learning disability or learning difficulty. They provide a friendly community atmosphere where people can take part in formal learning, structured activities and socialise with friends. They are moving towards provision of accredited programmes of learning. They currently have a Courses Access database on one PC and an income and expenditure and invoicing Access database on another PC. They would like to migrate their accounting information to a standard package that will be easier to maintain and teach to new staff. It needs to an 'off the shelf' package, such as Sage, which they can buy training and support for. They want you to implement the package, help them set up the chart of accounts and reference data, and migrate existing accounting data and customer details. They also want to extract invoicing details from the Courses database so that it can be used by the package through an interface. They would also like some initial training.

Opportunity Name: Redesign Website with CMS and Forum
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: NW5
Virtual: No

Description: This social enterprise based near Tufnell Park tube station runs events dedicated to film, music, reading, games and discussions exploring environmental and ecological themes that celebrate, question and propose different ways of viewing the state of our world. They have a website, built in Wordpress, but the design isn't 'sharp' enough for them. They would like you to redesign the website in line with their ideas, implement a content management system so that they can update the site with text and pictures; and implement a forum. They also want to add videos and newsletters. They need you to teach them how to update the site and administer the forum and they would like to work closely with you on the set up. They're open to your using a different technology if Wordpress doesn't suit you, they also have Dreamweaver. They want someone fairly local, but as they don't have premises, they could meet you in another part of London, and all the work except teaching them needs to be done remotely.