You can now sign-up for a day’s learning experience, where using the web as an everyday business tool will be unmasked. Participants at the September 4 e-Engage Your Community mini-conference at Massey University’s Wellington Campus will learn from hands-on workshops, presentations and case studies as an introduction to online tools, web 2.0 and social networking—what an organisation now needs to survive in the information age.

A range of speakers with a wealth of knowledge about the web and it's use at the community and grass-roots level have been engaged to help and upskill organisations for taking the next step on the web. e-Engage Your Community organiser and Wellington ICT Director, Mike Rumble says "Many sector organisations—especially the smaller ones—know they should be using the web more, but they're often far too busy to seek out useful new tools themselves, or they may be daunted about the first steps they need to take.”

“We want to make it easier for people and provide them the opportunity to hear about new technologies, experiment with some of them, and in the process demystify some of the jargon and "techie" stuff that's often a barrier to us all."

For more information and to register, the conference website is www.eyc.org.nz