There is more information available on the Internet than ever. This includes a profusion of content relevant to tangata whenua, community and voluntary organisations.

By employing a few simple strategies and tricks, you can get the best from the web without being inundated. This workshop is based on how I’ve learned to stay on top of the information tsunami.

Topics I’ll cover will include:

• Social bookmarking
• Creating a blogging network
• Google alerts
• Dashboards
• Automatically being alerted of news and updates from websites (using RSS)
• Email filtering
• Other tips and strategies.

The workshop will focus on how individuals can fine-tune their own information flows. Bring your questions and tips to share.

Mike will take attendees through the joy, power and simplicity of using Google Apps (using Google Docs and Sites with a hint of Gmail) leaving you with hands-on experience and concrete steps to removing the traditional barriers of working in teams spread across the country and organisations.

Lee Chisholm from NetSafe will facilitate an interactive workshop addressing the safe, secure and responsible use of all the ICT you may use in your organisation or personally. This is a workshop for those of us who use a range of technology and social media, who may have to deal with online incidents, who want to avoid compromising security. At NetSafe we deal with many queries and reports from people and organisations with online issues. Understanding the nature of these will assist you to implement and utilise safer practices.

Think you know what FFS stands for? You may be wrong. In this writing workshop Miraz Jordan shares specific techniques for catching a reader's interest, keeping it and encouraging them to take the actions you want them to take. Bring a 1-page piece of writing to work on.

This is an introduction to the free Google Docs forms. Google Docs forms are useful tools for community groups to do on-line surveys registrations and evaluations. They are free and simple to design and use. There are literally thousands of free templates to choose from if you do not wish to design your own. You can choose to share and allow editing by others. Forms can be embedded on websites or distributed by email with automatic updating of the parent database The results can be displayed in both spreadsheet and graphical formats.

Learn fast, cheap and straightforward ways to identify and fix usability issues with your website. Participants in this workshop will practice techniques including card sorting, 5-second tests, and user testing with paper prototypes, and also learn about online tools they could use.

Rochelle will take attendees through a licensing case study. The workshop will take an idea and look at all the implications- from trade mark and copyright issues to marketing issues.