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91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· Editor Training at City of Prospect Council

91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· Editor Training at Local Councils and Public Libraries
Connecting Up staff visited the City of Prospect to meet with Alison Wall, the Volunteer and Community Programs Coordinator together with new 91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· editor, volunteer Megan on Thursday 25 May 2017. The morning involved discussing 91Âé¶¹¾«Æ·, particularly the upcoming to make information accessible on the . The Connecting Up Community Information Coordinator also gathered requirement needs and suggestions from council regarding their dataset, ahead of delivering directory training.   

 

City of Prospect is an and as part of their , has a target for “a strong community network linked to local community organisations” ensuring that council will work with 91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· to confirm that information on the clubs, community groups and agencies located and working within Prospect are current.

 

91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· and Local Government Councils

91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· is a free, online community service directory that is available to all local councils in South Australia. Connecting Up has delivered the program for more than 35 years, receiving support from the Government of South Australia and Public Libraries SA.

A few reasons councils may have for joining 91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· include:

•  Wanting to publish a local directory or update new residents

•  Keeping track of local community groups, sports and recreational associations and services

•  Needing to keep in touch with groups for community consultation, council events, tourist activities or to promote available grants

•  Wanting a way to manage, update and publish community information

 

91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· can assist councils to provide comprehensive and current community information and make it available to the public via the web. Councils who are 91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· partners can export relevant information directly from the database for use in publications and communications.    

 

Connecting Up can assist councils to include a search page on their website that will return search results from 91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· for their area such as in these examples from and .

 

Connecting Up provides training and support to councils involved in the program with contributing members including staff working in libraries, community information, community development, volunteering, tourism, events and programs.

 

Looking for more information?

The (2min 30sec) provides an overview of the service from key stakeholders. The film features an information service provider, community organisation and council who explain how the directory is used by them to connect people with services.

 

Contact the 91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· team at support@sacommunity.org 08 8212 8555 extension 203 for more information on how 91Âé¶¹¾«Æ· can assist your council.

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