Commmunity IT Academy

CITA have won a tender from VONNE to deliver Digital Mentoring to 12 “Hard to Reach” (H2R) infrastructure groups in the North East under the Improving Reach project.

The project runs for 6 months from 1st November and aims to help to improve IT within H2R infrastructure groups so that they can help their client groups in turn.

A Digital Mentor would be available to work with your organisation on a 1-1 basis with a staff member or volunteer who you choose to nominate. They can spend up to 6 days with you, spread over a 6 month period. They can help you develop an ICT Strategy, a full staff and volunteer training needs analysis, carry out an asset inventory of your office equipment for you and put together an annual ICT budget. They will be available to follow up on progress periodically with you over the 6 month period.

This help is funded through a Capacitybuilders Improving Reach project which is aiming its support specifically at infrastructure organisations who work with the following groups;

• black and minority ethnic groups,
• refugee and migrant groups,
• faith groups and
• isolated rural groups.

The full background on this project is available on the Improving Reach page of our website.

View the Digital Mentoring Terms and Conditions

CITA has completed its first website make-over (re-skin).

If you use our Content Management system we can change your website's look and feel (skin) without you having to re-create all of the text and re-load all of the images within it.

We recommend that all websites should be regularly reviewed and "freshened up" every 3 years.

We designed the CoRE website in 2007 and have now re-desinged the look and feel for them.

View the old skin | Go to the core website to view the new skin

"CoRE originally approached CITA to help us set up the CoRE Network Website as part of their Web Design Project (Summer 2007). The help we received from CITA was excellent. We had a half day training workshop to set us off and were given excellent reference manuals to take away with us.

After about a year of developing the website I realised the original layout was not working for us, so I approached CITA to have the site reskinned.

The resulting website is much clearer and effective. The Joomla! software is easy to use and the website is expanding rapidly as a result.

Steven Brydon from CITA has always been extremely helpful and patient, responding to queries and requests quickly and with clear explanations.

I would thoroughly recommend CITA to anybody looking to develop a manageable website on a budget – thank you !

Val Tobiass
May 2009"

 - Val Tobiass, CoRE Network

CITA introduce a new product: An easy to use and secure internet based diary system.

• Do you want your colleagues to be able to see your appointments?
• Do you need to be able to make appointments for other poeple?
• Do you want to be able to arrange team meetings without awaiting individual replies?
• Do you want to be able to access your calendar outside of your office?

You can organise group calendars, security groups (so that not everyone can see your diary), make prviate and personal appointments, colour code activities and set priorities.

There is even potential to synchronise PDAs or other personal equipment with the system.

Password protected and available via your web browser - All this from £150

We believe a well maintained PC is less likely to fail. Why not give your PCs an annual service?

Let our expert staff service your PC by remote control without the need to visit your office! All you need do is watch!

We perform a ten point inspection of your PC and install required upgrades. Our staff will advise you of any additional work that might be needed to bring your PC to an optimum performance.

1 x PC £30

2 x PCs £25 per PC

3 x PCs £20 per PC

Is your website tired and misfiring? 

why not give it an MOT!

Let CITA do a multi point inspection of your current site and provide written recommendations for improvement.

Our inspection plan includes

• External and internal links (identifying dead links)
• Finding empty pages
• Accessibility
• Ant-Spam
• Search engine optimisation
• Clear out old data
• Recommend improvements to navigation, look and feel, content
• Check domain name registration
• Include enhanced statistical tools for easy analysis of your website's impact.

All this from £50

Intereseted?

Contact us to book an MOT or for more information.

We are please to be able to continue to offer our valued members 25% discount on our labour charges.

In addition to your normal membership benefits we are able to offer telephone support for our Joomla website system as a part of the membership package.