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Welcome to ​SeniorNet Manawatū

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What's on this Week - 19th May to the 25th of May


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 This Week

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​Tech Help    10:00am to 12pm
We are running our Wednesday morning Tech Help from 10 to 12  at the Milson Community Centre,
Please feel free to email - [email protected], or give us a call, to make a booking.  Then come along and get those questions or problems sorted.  Anything Tech-related is fine with us.   When you make a booking can you please describe what sort of assistance you need.  It helps with our scheduling.  ​ Thanks ​
You are welcome to just turn up, but we can't guarantee when we can help you.  ​

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​​ Tips and Tricks   Wednesday  10am- 11:30am
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‘Tips and Tricks’ - will cover useful and interesting features that will help you get more out of the applications and websites that are available on computers and phones. 

This week, we are again looking at making better use of the tools that we use to access the Internet.  This time we will look at making articles easier to read, and two ways of keeping a list of articles to read later. 

 This session will be targeted at computers.
All of these morning sessions are stand alone sessions -
so please feel free to attend any (or all) of them.  
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Free to members.​
 
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[email protected]

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​Committee Meeting   
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Wednesday  1pm- 2:30pm
​Join us for the next Committee Meeting. 
Come and share your ideas and participate in making SeniorNet Manawatū better and stronger. 
​​If you would like to join our committee or just volunteer to provide some assistance -this would be very much appreciated by all our members.​
- [email protected]
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SeniorHangouts

SeniorHangouts is free to use for SeniorNet Members.
If you have any questions then please ask. We hope to see you there. 
Have a look at the new  seniorhangouts.nz 
If you would like to join SeniorHangouts, then come along at 11am this Wednesday to sign up.    
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Check out this new website
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Own Your Online
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Report a Scam here

Schedule for May, June & July
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The above date are just a guide  

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SeniorNet Manawatū News​
Checkout the latest News 
New to 2025
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There will be two new morning sessions to replace our photos and Documents Groups (which may return later). 

This Wednesday will see the first of these are sessions on
‘Your Digital Toolbox’ which will cover useful and interesting simple applications and websites that are available on computers and phones.  We will also be running a set of sessions entitled ‘Tips and Tricks’ which will cover useful tips (and tricks) to get the most out of your devices and make them easier to use.  This will cover computers and smartphones.


We will have more information on these topics available on our website in the near future.
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All of these morning sessions are stand alone - so please feel free to attend any (or all) of them.  Free to our members.​

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Learning Opportunities.
 We have some new ideas for 2025.  We have a new document with ideas for topics for help sessions and workshops. You can take a look at it on our website - Learning Opportunities.

Events to remember:
Genealogy Monday 7pm
Weekly on SeniorHangouts
Q&A on Apple Tuesday, 2pm
Friday at Ron's place, anything from Jeff beck to Alan Turing 1:30pm  
See the SeniorHangouts Calendar for more information Seniorhangouts.nz  
​Want to join in with Seniorhangouts click here

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SeniorNet 
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Manawatū

We are still looking for volunteers who would like help with greeting and assisting our members on Wednesday morning as they arrive for Tech Help sessions.  This would be from just before 10 AM until about 11:45 AM.  The tasks are not onerous, they include:
  • Welcoming people as they arrive.
  • Signing people in (we have a very simple system to do this).
  • Taking the cash for the session, and writing a receipt if required.
  • Making sure that people know what’s going on.
  • Talking with any non-members who want to know more about what we do.
Please let us know if this is something that you might be able to help us with.  We would really appreciate any help.

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​SeniorHangouts 
Check seniorhangouts.nz for the latest information.​
​Using SeniorHangouts.  
To Join SeniorHangouts you must be a member of a local SeniorNet Learning Centre.  You need to let us know if you want to join up, as we have to indicate to SeniorHangouts that you are a financial member of our SeniorNet Learning Centre. 
​There are two ways to do this:
  1. Drop us an email with your name, email address and phone number or fill in this Form.  Once we have done our bit you will get an email from SeniorHangouts with a link to Register.  There you enter your details and a password that you will later use to enter the site.
  2. Book a Tech Help session and come along with your device.  We will then go through the sign-up process with you, and show you the basics of using SeniorHangouts.
[Note that there is a couple of days' delay after registering on SeniorHangouts before you can access it - this is to allow time for our volunteers to authorise your registration].

Sign in to SeniorHangouts and look at the Calendar entry for the link to sessions, and for more information.
​Sign into SeniorHangouts and look at the Calendar entry for the link to this session,
for more information. (Click Here)

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​Tech Help every Tuesday 11am to 1:30pm Feilding SeniorHub Make a booking 323 2410

Advisory.

How to protect yourself

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Use strong passwords on your accounts
  • Use a different password for each of your cloud-based accounts. For example, don’t use the same password for your Facebook account as you do for Netflix. That way, if someone gets access to one of your account passwords, they won’t get easy access to your other accounts as well. 
    Make your account passwords long and strong –
    ​try short sentences that are easy to remember.
  • How to create good passwords
Enable two-factor authentication (2FA)
  • ​Adding another level of security with 2FA makes it harder for an attacker to get into your online accounts — just knowing your username and password isn’t enough.
  • Use two-factor authentication to protect your accounts
Keep offline backups
  • ​If there's something that you really don't want to lose, or really don't want other people to find, don't store it in the cloud.
    Store it offline instead.
  • Back up your data and devices
Get help ​Come and see us at 
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​SeniorNet Manawatū

We have several Workshops and Groups coming up over the next few weeks.  Please email us if you are interested in attending any of these, or want to know more about them.  We need to know the approximate numbers.  The sessions include
Wednesday morning project groups (Restarting this month) 
  •  The memoirs group is running along as it has been
  •  Our new ‘Photo Fun’ group will be working on creating a 2024 Calendar, or a Photo Book
  • Our new Documents group will be creating documents of their choosing (Christmas Newsletter, memoir or story, journal or diary, family recipes, etc.). 
Proposed Workshops (Using the free Google products)
  • Where did Google put my stuff (Drive)
  • Document overview (Docs)
  • Building personal presentations using Slides or Powerpoint
  • Another look at Google Photos
Other Workshops
  • Scams - what to look out for
  • Google Search tips and tricks
  • Windows tips and tricks
  • Using SeniorHangouts
  • Streaming - from TVNZ+ through Netflix​



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Learning Together
​SeniorNet M​anawatū​   
[email protected]
  021 197 3476
 Milson Community Centre, Milson Shopping Centre 
 77 Milson Line, Milson, Palmerston North
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