community.brighton revamp

www.community.brighton.co.uk is a community portal, a one stop shop
for informatiion about and resources for the community sector in
Brighton & Hove. We have some funding form theplacetobe.net to
overhaul what's there and we started in earnest on this project this
week.
We've started by sketching out what we want the site to be able to do:
- Directory of local community organisations and the services they
provide to the local community
- Local community jobs
- Community news service
- Community events diary
- Community documents library
- Funding information
- Local training directory
- Community venues guide
- Information about local community sector support services
- Advice and information about how to run a community organisation
-- Media, key people in the Council and other important contacts
-- Good practise issues: fundraising, marketing, managing volunteers,
governance, planning, finance, HR, management, office management/
administration, beneficiary involvement
The next stage is to put some flesh to these descriptions, quantify
the work needed and begin planning out the work for the next 12 weeks
or so
We would hope to several of these tools available by mid-Feb and have
a launch site ready for a City Information Network meeting we're
planning for mid-March
Along the way I hope we can involve users in the design process,
bring some llocal volunteers into help and work with partners who
could help to maintain and update relevant information within the site.
Just before then we have to work out a project management methodology
for the team [me, Peter and Luke]. This should be up and running by
the end of April [ha ha]