Ning offers excellent software for social networking for community groups and has attractive graphics. In five months the transition towns social network website has attracted 320 members so far to network, learn, connect with each other. Facilities exist for groups, events, discussions as well as photos and videos. With attractive images and graphics it is linked with the drupal website for Transition Towns.

Emma McCleary will showcase how she and Child Poverty Action Group used free Facebook tools to create awareness of child poverty in New Zealand.

She'll show you their Facebook page, talk about the approach the group took, what they do on Facebook, how much work it required and why it worked.

This case study will look at how technology can be adapted to meet the needs of your target audience. The Quit Group took the idea of keeping a journal or diary, and combined it with the public concept of a blog to help motivate people quitting smoking and build community.

The SOUNZonline project represented the single largest redevelopment of the Centre for New Zealand Music since its inception in 1991 with a complete overhaul of our cataloguing and online systems, our commerce and contact management. The project was made possible through funding from the Community Partnership Fund of the National Digital Strategy and Creative New Zealand, and with collaborative partnerships with the Composers Association of New Zealand and Radio New Zealand Concert.

SOUNZ is now operating principally in an online environment with a greatly enhanced capability in linking together information and resources from all those involved in the creation, presentation and dissemination of New Zealand music. From score, audio, and video samples, to online shopping and library services, to events and news: the new SOUNZ website is giant leap towards our goal : Created in New Zealand, heard around the world!

Jayne Wallis has been a member of Unlimited Potential (a non-profit ICT networking community) since December last year, and recently has been helping the committee migrate its financial information onto xero, a web-based accounting platform. The UP Executive Committee and its Treasurer have since discovered the merits of having its financial and accounting information managed online. Jayne will be presenting the benefits and practical advantages to a non-profit organisation of using xero, and will show how it has assisted the UP Executive Committee.

The Transition Towns movement is using skype chats and skype conference calls more and more these days and we can see the potential for national and local groups meeting without using petrol or air travel. With a skype chat going at the same time as the call, you can then throw the notes into a Word document, clean it up and put it back on skype for confirmation, (all without wiki), then post the cleaned up version on a website. Ongoing group chats are left open. One to one skype with video is great for free calls. Skype training is available here.