Queensland 07 3107 1903
NSW/ACT 02 9008 5260
Victoria/ Tasmania 03 9912 2869
South Australia/ Northern Territory 08 8122 2701
Western Australia : 08 6267 6006
ORDERS
RECEIVED and PAID between September 24th and December 14th are entered
into our Xmas draw.
When you order with DonorTec you have the chance to win twice, not only
do you receive fabulous product donations to save your organisation
substantial dollars, but you will be entered in a draw to win one of
the following great prizes!
You can choose between:
Up to $500 credit for your DonorTec order
Or
$500 for you organisation towards Professional Development
– ICT Training / Conference
Or
Brand new Microsoft XBOX 360
Won’t that make a jolly Christmas!
The draw will be held on Monday 17th December. The winner will be
published in the following DonorTec newsletter.
Register and Order online at www.donortec.com.au
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As part of the Bachelor of Business, Business Information
Systems degree at RMIT, the students do a final year Capstone subject.
The students are grouped into teams of 6 and are required to specify,
design and implement an information system. The goal is that the
students develop a real project for a real client and experience the
entire software development life cycle.
If you, your company, or your organisation would like to
consider having a software project undertaken for free, please contact
Arthur Adamopoulos: arthur.adamopoulos@rmit.edu.au.
Please take the time to read the following project guidelines at : http://www.rmit.edu.au/bus/bit/biscapstoneoverview
Please review the new information guidelines on DonorTec web
site about registering multiple branches.
http://www.donortec.com.au/node/165/#reg
We will soon have available a typing tutor product from Bytes
of Learning. Stand by for further details in the near future.
http://www.bytesoflearning.com/
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The ABC’s new TV program
“Rainshadow” set in South Australian rural town
Paringa in the Riverland is highlighting many of the difficulties faced
by Australian communities in the bush through a drama of local
personalities and their experiences of rural life and severe drought.
As a real life up-side to this drama a local Paringa community service:
Renmark Paringa Community Centre has had a welcome hand of help from
the IT donations program DonorTec.
Coordinator Cheryl Ingerson said, “We have a very small
budget and the donations (Microsoft) have allowed us to upgrade our
computer systems and maintain the important employment, training and
life programs we are running.”
“It is just fantastic that some companies have the insight to
reach out to people who couldn’t otherwise afford this
technology.”
DonorTec is a software and hardware donation program for charities and
nonprofits that commenced this year. Rural community services across
Australia have begun to access the donations program at
www.donortec.com.au. It is saving small organisations
hundreds and thousands of dollars and large organizations tens of
thousands of dollars on their IT equipment to support their operations
so that they can divert these funds to support their core services,
such as community services and training.
Community Information Strategies Australia (CISA) operates the DonorTec
program, which has saved Australian non-profit organisations over $10
million in six months, with donations sourced from the household names
of IT, such as Microsoft and Cisco, with others to join shortly.
Microsoft alone will donate more than $20 million in software in 2007
through the program, while Cisco is another major partner with
donations in the millions of dollars of its networking products.
DonorTec started taking registrations in January this year and over
2000 organisations are now registered, which is still just the tip of
the iceberg of estimated numbers of eligible organisations in
Australia,” says CISA CEO Doug Jacquier.
“This is a sector which represents at least 3 perccent of
Australia’s GDP and is larger than the IT sector
itself.”
For more information or to register visit: www.donortec.com.au
Connecting Up, the national conference focused on the use of
information and communications technologies in charity and Not for
Profit settings is calling for expressions of interest from presenters.
Now in its fifth big year the conference will take place on Monday May
12 and Tuesday May 13, 2008 in Brisbane at a venue still to be
announced.
Community Information Strategies Australia (CISA) Inc CEO (The parent
organisation of DonorTec), Doug Jacquier says final negotiations are in
progress with some world-leading international guests in NFP technology
strategies, including the undisputed ‘queen’ of the
US Not
for Profit technology scene, Beth
Kanter
and Zack Rosen, former web developer for US Presidential candidate
Howard Dean, co-founder of the open source and social change pioneer,
CivicSpace, and now with Chapter
Three.
But Doug Jacquier says this conference is essentially about the NFP
technology capacity here in Australia with the emphasis on sharing
stories, experiences, successes, applications and technologies with
other delegates from all over Australia.
If you’d like to be a presenter or run a workshop at CU08,
please download a guide for potential presenters click
here.
To visit the Connecting Up conference website please navigate to http://www.communit.info/CU08