Links

Public engagement organisations

Business in the Community – Business-community engagement
Manchester Beacon – Manchester university’s public engagement organisation
MMU Research Enterprise Development – MMU’s Public Engagement programme
National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement – UK site for university-community links
Together Works – supporting Social Enterprise in Greater Manchester

IT and Web support organisations for the voluntary sector

Community Recycling Network – Recycled PCs
Computers for Charities – Free PCs for registered charirties
CTX Exchange – Free software for registered charities (nb. new software so check your PC has an adequate spec. to run the software)
epractice – EU IT community projects
Geekup – Geek community – some members do pro-bono work in Manchester
Manchester City Council – ICT Access Centres
IT4Communities – IT Support for community oorganisation
Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) – the lead organisation for the development of the Digital Strategy for Manchester and the surrounding region
(also is the venue for web user groups)
Madlab – a community space in Manchester for people who want to do and make interesting stuff – a place for geeks, artists, designers, illustrators, hackers, tinkerers, innovators and idle dreamers; an autonomous R&D laboratory and a release valve for Manchester’s creative communities
Recycle IT – Recycled PCs
Social Media Manchester – A place for the people of Manchester, who are interested in Social Media to group together to learn, teach and meet.
Lets Go Global – affordable web training

Weblogs, Wikis and other Web 2.0 Resources

Blogger – Web log
Chatzy – Private chat room
Delicious – Link sharing
Doodle – Event scheduler
Drupal – a Content Management System for php/mysql Servers
Eventbrite – meeting scheduling
Facebook – Social networking site
Flickr – Photo sharing
Google Calendar – your personal calendar or calendar for your website
Google Sites – Web site space + easy website authoring tool
Joomla – Content management system for php/mysql servers
MailChimp – Mass EMail-out facility
Mashable – Social Networking guide
Myspace – Social Networking site
Ning – Social Networking site
PB Works – free wiki (beginners website / discussion forum)
PhpBB – Buletin board/discussion forum
(free hosting at Get Forum)
Survey Monkey – online survey generator
Twitter – social networking via short message sharing
Web accessibility toolbar for IE
Web 2.0 – wikipaedia article
Web 2.0 Magazine – lots more Web 2.0 resources
Vimeo – free video hosting
Wiki Dot – free web hosting and document collaboration/sharing
WordPress (hosted online), WordPress (download) – Free Blog
Youtube – Video sharing

Technical website-making resources

Aptana – web authoring system – a bit slow
COI Usability Toolkit – website guidelines
css Button generator
Cynthia says – accessibility checker
Delicious – web bookmark sharing
Downloads – source of most free software (e.g. GIMP/image fixing program, Filezilla/website uploader) also and try-before-you-buy software
Fav Icon Generator – the graphic at the top of your browser to the left of your website’s url
Filezilla – for uploading your site to the web
Free Webhosts
Free Web Tutorial – HTML, CSS, Search Engine Optimisation (getting more traffic)
Google Analytics – Track how your site is being used
Google Webfonts – add non-standard fonts to your webpages
Javascript Source – client-side (user’s PC) scripting language
Kompozer – Free Web authoring Tool – not good with php!
Mr Site – Make your own website
Mysql – Free database – usually supplies if your Internet service provider uses Linux servers
Php – scripting language – usually found on Linux web servers
Picassa – Free picture editor from Google
RNIB – Accessibilty guide for websites for the visually imapaired
Sitemaps – advice on setting up an xml file to help the Google search engine index your site
the site wizard
Sourceforge – open source software
Survey monkey – online survey maker
W3 Schools – all you need to know about web technology (almost)
W3C – Website validation tools (HTML, CSS, accessibility)
Whois – site for finding, who hosts a site
Weebly – webiste and blog generating system
Wix – website generating system
Xenu – Broken weblink detector

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Public engagement organisations

IT and Web support organisations for the voluntary sector

Weblogs, Wikis and other Web 2.0 Resources

Technical website-making resources