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from John Carson
* Lockergnome <http://www.lockergnome.com/> has the best daily e-
newsletter on computing, handy software and shortcut tips to make
you work more efficiently - and it has a sense of humour too.
* Media UK <http://www.mediauk.com> has all the links and information
you could ask for in finding contacts in the media, including
newsfeeds - a Free Pint Bar regular subject.
* SiteOwner <http://siteowner.bcentral.com/default.cfm> has lots of
free utilities to check your website, including meta tags and a
function to see who is linking to your site.
* I cannot recommend Bravenet Web Services highly enough, and have
been using their free and totally reliable web tools for a few years
now without a problem. One of my 'must-have' sites.
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* Union Jack News is a site for ex-pats like myself who just have to
get their daily fix of news from the UK!
<http://www.ujnews.com/html/index.html>
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Bruce Springsteen fan has been trying to identify a song (11743) and
a TV watcher has been asking about the name of the theme tunes for a
couple of ads (11714). It was driving her mad!
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"Further Voluntary Sector Resources"
By Allan Pearson
This is a follow on from a previous article which appeared in Free
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Whereas that article was a brief overview, this looks in a little more
depth at some of the sites that deal in particular with funding, IT
and management - all areas of current concern for the voluntary
sector. Finally there is a miscellaneous section which mainly
contains sites that should have been mentioned previously, but
weren't.
Funding
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Funderfinder <http://www.funderfinder.org.uk> has a useful set
of links to grant making trusts websites. In addition they distribute
free software - Apply Yourself - aimed at helping groups make an
application to a trust fund. There is also a set of advice packs on
subjects such as putting together a budget, and problems that could
arise with events such as sponsored walks, etc. Unfortunately these
are a little hidden - go to 'what is funderfinder' then click on the
link 'access online'.
Access Funds <http://www.access-funds.co.uk> is another funding
site, but quite a useful one. It covers funding news, has good links
to grant-making trusts and offers a free monthly newsletter. Much of
the information on this site covers funding from government sources.
In comparison, Fundersonline <http://www.fundersonline.org> is
included more for the sake of completeness. It aims to be a guide to
Europe's Online Philanthropic Community, but it is not the easiest
site to find your way around, especially if new to fundraising. There
are also some broken or missing links.
Co-financing <http://www.co-financing.co.uk> is one of the most useful
funding sites I have come across for quite some time. It includes a
useful range of information on both EU and UK Government grants as
well as regional funds and lottery funds. It is also useful for
anybody new to funding from statutory sources who will find the mind
maps particularly useful. I wish I had found this site about a year
earlier than I did.
The European Social Fund <http://www.esfnews.org.uk> has its own site
which will be essential for anybody concerned with ESF Funding. Also
of interest may be the fact that the Learning and Skills Council also
has a website at <http://www.lsc.gov.uk>.
CAFonline <http://www.cafonline.org> is a huge site with a lot of
resources. The best way to tackle it is probably to find the site map
- try going to the Information Centre and selecting it from there.
They also have another site at <http://www.charitynet.org.uk/>.
BCConnections <http://www.bcconnections.org.uk> isn't really concerned
with fundraising, but rather focuses on establishing wider links -
such as volunteering, sponsorship, skills sharing etc. - between
community organisations and businesses. A word of warning though, you
will need to use Internet Explorer to see all of the organisations.
Several sites, besides funderfinder, have a good range of links to
other funders including City Parochial Foundation
<http://www.cityparochial.org.uk>. This is a funding body based in
London, so this site may also prove useful for London-based voluntary
groups.
IT
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The shortage of IT skills within the voluntary sector is well
recognised, but fortunately there are a number of websites that can
help.
Techsoup <http://www.techsoup.com> is an American site providing a
range of resources such as factsheets. They have quite a wide variety
of material, including, oddly enough, a recipe for Thai Fish Soup.
IT for Charities <http://www.itforcharities.co.uk> is a British site,
similar to Techsoup, but with perhaps a larger list of links to other
websites. They also produce a newsletter (as do LASA covered in the
previous article). Amongst other things they have a useful page on
recycled PC's. Otherwise, have a look at the Microsoft Community
Affairs website <http://www.microsoft.com/uk/info/community> which
also deals with refurbished computers as well as dealing with issues
of accessibility, etc.
The freeskills site has now moved and forms part of the beginners site
<http://www.beginners.co.uk/?from=freeskills&>. This site contains
around 250 online training courses and tutorials on a range of
software packages, such as Access and Word. It also covers
programming and networking, but not as extensively as the next site.
There are even a number of what they term "softskills", covering areas
such as leadership skills, management of change and assertiveness
training.
Webmonkey <http://webmonkey.com> is a similar, but less formal site.
It is largely aimed at a more knowledgeable audience, but recent
contributions to the Free Pint Bar have referred to the Webmonkey for
Children section. There is a lot of material on web development, use
of web- based databases, etc.
Helping.org <http://www.helping.org> is a more general site that
includes a section on IT resources. Especially interesting is the
section on free software.
Similar in some ways is the Benton Toolkit
<http://www.benton.org/Practice/Toolkit>. It is a more general media
and communications site and although aimed at nonprofits, is really
aimed at those with a web presence. Includes sections on building
online communities, etc.
Management
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In many ways this is the hardest section to tackle. There
are some books that deal with the subject, but many less than those
which deal with management in profit making organisations; although
many of these will be applicable, that is far from guaranteed.
Idealist <http://www.idealist.org/tools.html> is an American site with
details of over 22,000 voluntary organisations world-wide, plus
details of voluntary opportunities, etc. However, this particular page
gives details of resources for managing voluntary organisations (or
nonprofits).
The Internet Nonprofit Center <http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq> is
another American site with lots of resources for management. It goes
without saying though, that being American not everything is suitable
for a British context, but lots of material here will be useful.
Another large site is the Free Management Library
<http://www.mapnp.org/library>, but not everything here is aimed at
voluntary organisations which could actually prove to be useful.
A slightly different approach is made by the Alliance for Nonprofit
Management <http://www.allianceonline.org>. This site contains
details of resources available for non-profit making organisations in
the form of books, videos, websites, etc. Again, being American, most
of the resources are American. More useful links to American non-
profit making organisations can be found at
<http://www.uwex.edu/li/learner/sites.htm>.
In addition to the DTI site, the UK Government site has started a
separate site for employment legislation. At the moment
<http://www.tiger.gov.uk> only covers the national minimum wage and
maternity rights, but the site is expected to develop further.
Somebody within the Government evidently has a sense of humour as the
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has now been given
responsibility for freedom of information and renamed the Office of
the Information Commissioner. They still have at least two websites -
<http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk> and <http://www.dpr.gov.uk> with
the first covering freedom of information. Unfortunately neither site
covers the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) - despite a number of
concerns having been raised in the voluntary sector press about
accuracy of information amongst other things. Instead, the CRB has its
own site <http://www.crb.gov.uk>.
Miscellaneous
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Maps
There are two good websites offering maps of the UK
<http://www.multimap.co.uk> and <http://www.streetmap.co.uk>. It
seems to be pretty much a matter of personal choice which you use. I
find the range of maps on Multimap better as they are taken from the
Ordnance Survey. Having said that if I am looking for street maps, I
prefer the clarity of Streetmap. Both have a range of aerial
photographs.
Self-help Groups
A number of websites deal with self-help groups. One
of the largest of these <http://www.selfhelp.org.uk/> seems to have
lost its fairly comprehensive list of self-help groups in the UK, but
there is still a lot of information for anybody wanting to set up a
self-help group and there are links to similar organisations in other
countries.
Otherwise <http://www.mentor-update.com> claims to have details of
over 1,000 groups but I found navigation to be a bit of a problem.
<http://www.self-help.org.uk/> seems to use the same database and is
easier to use. <http://www.patient.co.uk/> is friendlier still and
seems to be more comprehensive, but they don't say how many groups are
included.
National Groups NCVO was mentioned last time and whilst this has a lot
of useful information for organisations outside England
(particularly in the briefing section - see "about"), Scotland
<http://www.scvo.org.uk>, Wales <http://www.wcva.org.uk>, and Northern
Ireland <http://www.nicva.org> have their own councils.
Regional Groups
A couple of regional groups were mentioned in the last
article. In addition to these, London Voluntary Service Council
<http://www.lvsc.org.uk> are setting up a new website - Actionlink
<http://www.actionlink.org.uk> which is aimed at increasing
communication and the flow of information between voluntary and
community groups in London. This site is still being developed, but
should be available soon. Although aimed at London, early versions of
the site had information that would be of interest to a wider
audience.
The North West also has its own regional site at
<http://www.netcetera.org.uk>. Although aimed primarily at the North-
west area, this also has a lot of information that will be of
relevance to other groups. The Yorkshire and Humberside Regional
Forum also has material useful for a wider audience and can be found
at <http://www.yhregforum.org.uk>.
Youth
For anybody interested in youth work, the National Youth Agency
<http://www.nya.org.uk> have launched a comprehensive site aimed at
youth workers, advisors and careers staff, at
<http://www.youthinformation.com>.
Community Development
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Although a number of websites exist on community development, I am only
going to cover a couple of them as it is diverging a little. Adept <
http://www.adept.org.uk/home.html> has a number of reports in the form
of checklists on capacity building, regeneration and community
development. The links page also gives details of a number of other
organisations in the field.
Bassac (the British Association of Settlements and Social Action
Centres) <http://www.bassac.org.uk/index.htm> is a membership
organisation for voluntary groups involved in community development.
Their website contains a number of resources including a useful links
page (under Info Bank).
The BBC website contains a massive amount of information. Of
particular interest to voluntary organisations are some of the
factsheets from the Changing Places radio series. The series looks at
how communities have been transformed. Go to
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4> and select "Changing Places". Other
sections worth looking at include the WebWise section, aimed at
introducing people to the Internet.
Other Sites
The National Lottery Charities Board which has been renamed the
Community Fund, has a new site at <http://www.community-fund.org.uk>.
The Community Recycling Network has a useful page of links for anybody
interested in recycling or the environment at
<http://www.crn.org.uk/contact/links/index.html>.
Finally, this is not strictly a voluntary sector resource, but it can
be useful none-the-less (perhaps for training) and has an uncanny
knack of being rather closer to the truth than is comfortable -
<http://www.dilbert.com>.
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Reviewed by Alison Turner
As the Internet grows, so too does the multitude of books claiming to
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such books are merely lists of URLs and offer little else. This book
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wishing to judge a book by its publisher, I'm sure this is a handy
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The highlight of the book is a series of checklists to use when
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"Photography through the Web - Part 2"
By Guy Aron
In the first part of this article, published in Free Pint 93
<http://www.freepint.com/issues/020801.htm> I looked briefly at
portals and sites concerned with cameras and lenses, and classic and
collectable cameras.
Digital photography
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Among the search engines there is a section on Google
<http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Photography/Digital/> covering
consumer information, equipment, services, resources and techniques.
Digital Camera News and Reviews <http://www.dpreview.com/> offers
reviews, not only of cameras, but accessories such as printers, card
readers, and a great sounding gadget called the Monitor Spyder.
Reviews are detailed, profusely illustrated, and list cons as well as
pros.
The Imaging Resource <http://www.imaging-resource.com/> is a well-
organised and professional-looking site. As well as the usual news and
reviews about cameras, scanners, and software, there are sections
entitled Getting Started, Better Pictures, and How To. A newsletter is
available.
Steve's Digicams <http://www.steves-digicams.com/> has links to
equipment reviews and pages such as a few scanning tips
<http://www.scantips.com/> and it groups cameras by mega-pixel ranges.
Links open in a new browser session. There is a section on camera
manufacturers with links to their home pages, and quite a lot of
information about accessories like batteries, memory cards, and add-on
lenses and filters.
Less comprehensive than these sites, but worth a look, is the section
on digital camera reviews at photo.net
<http://www.photo.net/learn/reviews-digital-camera>. There are reviews
also of slide scanners and a section on choosing equipment. If you are
after a review of a particular camera there is a list at PhotoLinks;
go to the main site at
<http://www.photolinks.com/cgibin/webc.cgi/cgihome.html>, click on the
Site Map tab at the top, then scroll down to Digital camera reviews.
The site is slow to load, but worth the wait.
Accessories
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PhotographyTips has a good introduction to the wonderful world of
accessories at <http://www.PhotographyTips.com/page.cfm> (scroll down
and click on the links at the bottom left). Stuff covered includes
filters, reflectors, tripods, tele-extenders, camera bags and light
diffusers. Gary Pinkston's home page a has a commonsense section on
accessories <http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/6172/accessry.htm>.
Ace has a useful selection of accessory manufacturers at
<http://www.acecam.com/cr6index.html>, and there is a more eclectic
list at Open Directory
<http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Photography/Accessories/>. The latter
includes pages like manuals2go
<http://www.manuals2go.com/webmanuals.htm>, a good source of reprinted
operating manuals for cameras and accessories. Collectors should take
a look at <http://www.craigcamera.com/access.htm>.
The manufacturers of Cokin filters do not appear to have their own
home page, but there is a useful collection of articles about them at
<http://www.geocities.com/cokinfiltersystem/index.htm>. Scroll down to
the Users Guide at the bottom of the page, which includes
explanations on the various filters and examples of how they have been
used. Photographers can submit their work for inclusion.
Types of photography
--------------------
Photography is a difficult topic for which to provide a taxonomy. A
site I looked at while researching this article split up its contents
into People, Places, and Things, which made sense to me.
People
Taking portraits that don't make your subjects look (unintentionally)
like Diane Arbus' pictures is a skill. Philip Greenspun's Photo.Net
has a good section on portraits, with links at the bottom of the page
<http://www.photo.net/photo/portraits>. The site also has articles on
nudes, sports and action, and most other photographic genres. It also
hosts discussion lists ("forums"), image galleries, and gear reviews.
Recommended.
A lot of learning in photography comes from looking at other people's
work, and the web offers enormous opportunities for this. PhotoLinks
has a good number; go to the main site at
<http://www.photolinks.com/cgibin/webc.cgi/cgihome.html> and select
"Portraits" from the list at the left hand side.
Photojournalism gets somewhat ignored by art photography types, but
there is a site for digital photojournalists at
<http://www.robgalbraith.com/index.html>. Rob Galbraith's site is also
a good news source in the fast-moving digital camera market. Forums
for discussing various makes of cameras, scanners, and other digital
gear are hosted, as is also the case for Nature and Wildlife, Portrait
and Social, and Industrial and Commercial genres. Yahoo!
<http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Photography/Photojournalism/>
and Google
<http://directory.google.com/Top/News/Media/Journalism/Photojournalism/>
have extensive listings.
Places
My favourite landscape site is Luminous Landscape
<http://www.luminous-landscape.com/>, which, in spite of its domain
name, is completely non-commercial. Michael Reichmann uses both film
and digital techniques, which means there is something for landscape
photographers of both persuasions on this site. Recent articles
include a comparison of three ultrawide lenses, understanding bit
depth, monitor profiling, and colour theory.
Regard-it has a huge collection of links to landscape photographers'
sites at <http://www.regard-it.com/photolinks.htm>. There are links on
this page to other categories of landscape sites if these aren't
enough. Photolinks (see URL above) has its landscape photographers'
sites under "Nature".
Fodor's has a travel photography site "put together with the
assistance of Jeff Wignall" at <http://www.fodors.com/focus/>. Topics
covered include Getting Ready, The Elements, Composition, and
Lighting. There are a few links to Fodor's titles, but the information
still looks OK. Laurenz Bobke has a site with his travel photographs
from many parts of the globe at <http://www.travelphoto.net/>; there
are some good-looking links, including one to the travel photography
ring at <http://phoebe.bomis.com/ring_home.fcgi?ring=travelphoto>.
Travel photographers interested in Asia should take a look at
<http://www.explorephoto.com/>; and for those planning a trip to the
United States, visit <http://home.earthlink.net/~phototravel/>.
Things
Still life photography seems, unfortunately, not to have the profile
of the other genres. A search on this pulls up mainly lists of
commercial still life (often advertising) photographers. Try this
yourself and explore this most absorbing and contemplative genre.
Processing and printing (traditional and digital)
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Digital processing
There are a few useful sites covering scanning; start with Wayne
Fulton's Scanning tips <http://www.scantips.com/>. There is also a
terrific set of links on every conceivable scanning and digital image
processing topic.
Adobe, as you would expect, has many useful Photoshop resources at its
site <http://www.adobe.com/main.html>, including online tutorials and
discussion lists. Jasc <http://www.jasc.com/> has a good number of
tutorials for its PaintShop Pro product (the poor man's Photoshop, and
my personal favourite). The Ulead site
<http://www.ulead.com/runme.htm> has a smaller selection of tutorials;
both sites have FAQs and a searchable database. Zonezero ("from analog
to digital photography") has some interesting and useful content; go
to <http://www.zonezero.com/default.html>.
Digital printing
Kodak's Digital Cameras and Technology site at
<http://www.kodak.com/US/en/nav/digital.shtml> of course promotes the
Great Yellow Father, but has good information, particularly for the
novice. Inkjetmall <http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/index.html> is a
welcome oasis of good, free, reliable information in the middle of a
desert. If you want your prints to match what you are seeing on
the monitor, and would like to understand why they don't, take a look
at this site.
Any discussion of digital printing leads to the black
art (as it were) of photographic topics, colour management. Charles
Poynton's Color FAQ site
<http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/ColorFAQ.html> has documents
downloadable in PQD format about CMY, CMYK, and other mysterious
acronyms. The similarly impenetrable topic of gamma also has a site at
<http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/GammaFAQ.html>.
Norman Koren has a useful series of pages on fine art digital printing
at <http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints.html>. Querandi in
Focus <http://www.querandi.demon.co.uk/index.htm> has some tutorials,
particularly useful for Photoshop users, but still instructive for
other software. The Singapore-based Digital Darkroom
<http://come.to/digitaldarkroom> concentrates on Epson printers and
Hewlett-Packard scanners, but has useful information on allied topics
such as monitor calibration and printing in colour and black and
white. This site is getting a bit out of date now, but still worth a
look.
Traditional/Black and white
This was going to be two separate sections, but as I was compiling it
I discovered (unsurprisingly) that traditional photo processing goes
hand in hand with black and white photography. A lot of the interest
of B&W work lies in the fact that you can do it all, from the
shooting to the printing. Less really is more!
Barry McCartney's Black and White Darkroom at
<http://www3.telus.net/drkrm/main.htm> is a good place to start; it is
rather "text-y", but the information looks sound. There is quite a
good list of traditional photo processing articles at Black and White
World <http://www.photogs.com/bwworld/bwresources.html>. A resource
without which no black and white photographer should be is the Massive
Dev Chart; go to Digitaltruth: Photo Source at
<http://www.digitaltruth.com/>. This site also has some useful
resources (Techniques and Data).
No discussion of black and white photography on the web would be
complete without the Black and White Art Zone
<http://www.artzone.gr/>. The site hosts galleries, articles, and
practical stuff like a guide to papers. Take a look also at Black and
White World <http://www.photogs.com/bwworld/index.html>. Navigate
using the drop-down list at the top left, and check out the Tool Kit
and Forum (discussion lists). For an interesting selection of black
and white photographers' sites go to Paul Politis' site at
<http://www.ftn.net/~pablo/photo/photolinks.html> and select
"Recommended Links". (His site is well worth a look in its own right).
Magazines and e-zines
---------------------
The Hong Kong University Photographic Society has a good collection of
links to photo magazines and e-zines at
<http://www.hku.hk/photosoc/links.html#magazine>. DigitalTruth lists
photo magazines in its Links section; go to
<http://www.digitaltruth.com/photo/links.html> and scroll down.
PhotoLinks has a good list of magazines and e-zines; go to the main
site at <http://www.photolinks.com/cgibin/webc.cgi/cgihome.html>,
select Directory, and scroll down to Publications. There is a list of
online photo magazines at
<http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~bmarcus/magazines.html>. This page lists 16
titles ranging from Digital Directions to WirEd.
Clubs and associations
----------------------
Google lists over 100 worldwide photo clubs in its directory at
<http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Photography/Clubs/>. Jessops
lists almost 900 UK clubs at its site at
<http://www.jessops.com/clubs/index.cfm?i=1> (under Information and
Events if this link doesn't work). Fellow residents of Victoria,
Australia, can find a club near them at the Victorian Association of
Photographic Societies' web page
<http://members.optushome.com.au/ausclubs/vaps/vaps.htm>. The Links
section of this site has a good list of photographic clubs and
societies.
Institutions and courses
------------------------
An enterprising Russian site lists schools of photography world-wide;
go to <http://www.caravan.ru/~jazz/pe/Eng/indexeng.htm> and select
"Photoschools" at the left hand side.
DeMontfort University has a small but worthwhile selection of links in
its photography education web pages
<http://www.photographyontheweb.org/idc/search.idc?Category=5>. 34
sites "with a high level of contextual/historical information about
photography" are listed, each with a description of its contents. Take
a look also at the Archives links
<http://www.photographyontheweb.org/idc/search.idc?Category=11>. As
usual, there is a good list at PhotoLinks; go to the main site at
<http://www.photolinks.com/cgibin/webc.cgi/cgihome.html>, select
Directory, then Online classes (right at the bottom).
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Melbourne Institute of Technology Library. He has had an interest in
black-and-white photography for some years, particularly landscape and
still life. Professionally Guy is interested in knowledge management
and how people use electronic information sources. His web page is at
<http://sites.netscape.net/guyaron/homepage.htm>.
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