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		<title>&#8216;Computers changed my life &#8211; in 1967&#8242;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Unite website reader Jeremy Hall was inspired to write in after receiving our January newsletter. He told us that he had recently been offered help using a personal computer booth at a library due to his age. Far from being a newcomer, Jeremy had been using computers since the 1960s. Here, in this guest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2012/02/01/computers-changed-my-life-in-1967/</link>
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		<title>Next social housing forum – book soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Unite is pleased to announce that the next social housing forum will be in London on March 26, 2012 hosted at the Microsoft Offices in Victoria, London.For housing providers, the forum is a really great opportunity to meet with suppliers of a wide range of services and products that could help your residents access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2012/01/27/next-social-housing-forum-%e2%80%93-book-soon/</link>
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		<title>A little history&#8230; of family history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, tracing family ancestry was a huge undertaking that involved physically visiting libraries and archives around the country – in some cases, around the world – and years of detailed research. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of websites that bring together census information and access to archives allowing people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2012/01/16/a-little-history-of-family-history/</link>
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		<title>Social housing forum: driving digital inclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Unite works closely with social housing providers to help residents get online. In partnership with the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) we recently delivered the 12-month Government-funded Get Digital programme for older residents living in socially owned sheltered housing. This successful initiative provided learning programmes in 196 sheltered housing schemes and provided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2011/12/08/working-with-social-housing-providers-to-drive-digital-inclusion/</link>
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		<title>Online banking for the over 55s – slowly, slowly, catchy monkey…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were interested to read a report this week that only a quarter of people aged over 55 years bank online. The research, released by PayYourway.org.uk, showed that whilst 71% of users aged over 55 feel confident about making online transactions, only one in four (25%) had tried managing their money through online banking. Earlier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2011/11/10/online-banking-for-the-over-55s-%e2%80%93-slowly-slowly-catchy-monkey%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Taking the digital lead for the Age Action Alliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I had the pleasure and privilege to chair the first Digital Inclusion Working Group as part of the DWP’s Age Action Alliance initiative.   Officially launched at the end of September, the Age Action Alliance is a partnership of organisations drawn from civil society and the public and private sectors who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2011/10/27/taking-the-digital-lead-for-the-age-action-alliance/</link>
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		<title>We gave an hour and got people shopping online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week as part of the BBC and Race Online 2012 campaign ‘Give an Hour’*, two of our Digital Unite team, one of our tutors, Brian Eisenberg, and our Business Development Manager, Kathy Valdes gave a few of their hours to help residents at a local sheltered housing scheme experience shopping online for the first time. Here Brian gives us his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2011/10/20/i-gave-an-hour-and-got-people-shopping-online/</link>
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		<title>40 million Open University downloads makes it a world leader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A massive number of people are taking advantage of the free learning materials available through iTunes U – with 40 million downloads from the Open University’s content alone. The figure is nearly double that of a year ago, and makes Open University a world leader. Some 70% of people download the podcasts, videos and transcripts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2011/10/13/40-million-open-university-downloads-makes-it-a-world-leader/</link>
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		<title>iPhone 4S to hit shops on 14 October</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest version of the iPhone (confusingly often dubbed the ‘iPhone 5’ in the run up to today’s official announcement but actually called the iPhone 4S) is to be released in the UK on 14 October, 2011. If you’re yet to join the world of smartphones, our Learning Zone guides could help explain some of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2011/10/04/iphone-4s-to-hit-shops-on-14-october/</link>
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		<title>iPhone’s nifty new iOS 5 arrives next week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest version of Apple’s ‘iOS’ (the mobile operating system that runs on the iPhone and iPad) will be released on 12 October in the UK. iOS 5 will be available free to everyone with an existing iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPad 2 and third and fourth generation iPod Touches. If you’re not an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2011/10/04/iphone%e2%80%99s-nifty-new-ios-5-arrives-next-week/</link>
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