Welcome to ​SeniorNet Manawatū

What's on this Week - 11th to the 17th of May


 This Week
​🛠️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.  ​
​​ Digital Toolbox   
Wednesday 10am- 11:30am  
This month We will look at some new (and some older) features available in Google Chrome to make your browsing life easier. 
​A new way to arrange your bookmarks, stripping ads with reading mode, putting two web pages side-by-side.  And more.
All of these morning sessions are stand alone sessions, 
​so please feel free to attend any (or all) of them.  ​ 
​
​Free to members.
 [email protected]
Monthly Members' Meeting  ​
 1:30pm to 3pm ​
​This Wednesday Afternoon
Google What's it all about
This month we will take a look at Google. 
We will explore the many facet​s of Google from search to Gemini AI and beyond.
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Everyone is welcome, 
​so why not bring a friend too? 
As always, there will be plenty of time for a chat and a biscuit with tea or coffee ​
📱 Struggling with your tech? Alan is here to help! 💻
Got a phone that’s acting up or a laptop that just won’t cooperate?
Don't stress—come have a chat with Alan! Whether it's a quick fix or a
​"how-to" question, he's happy to help you get sorted.
  • Where: Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom (Foxton Library)
  • When: This Friday
  • Time: 10am – Noon
No appointment needed—just drop in and bring your device!
​See you there.​
​Tech Help every Tuesday 10am to 1pm Feilding SeniorHub Make a booking 323 2410
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 then come along to one of our meetings or fill in this Form.    

SeniorNet 
​Manawatū
Help Wanted.  
​We are looking for a volunteer to take control of our SeniorNet Manawatū Facebook Page.  It would be good to see some activity on our page, and to spread the word about what we do.  If you have some experience using Facebook and would like to help, please contact us - [email protected].  We can help with any of the technical aspects of Facebook Pages.  
We are also looking for more tutors, and for people who would like to join our committee.  If you or someone you know is interested please contact us.
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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.
  • Making sure that people know what’s going on.
  • Talking with anyone 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.
​Contact us for more details.- [email protected]
Schedule for  May, June & July
Click or tap on the link above to see the schedule for Term Two
SeniorNet Manawatū News​

​Checkout the latest News 
New to 2026​
There will be two new morning sessions this year Family History and Google tools to replace our photos and Documents Groups (which may return later). 

Wednesday mornings at milson will have an opertunity to partisipate in Memoirs, Digital Toolbox, Family History and Google Tools, the sessions will run for 90 minutes once a month 
1st Wednesday - Memoirs
2nd Wednesday - Digital Toolbox
3rd Wednesday - Family History
4th Wednesday - Google Tools
​All of these morning sessions are stand alone - so please feel free to attend any (or all) of them. 
Free to our members.​
​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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Events online to remember:
2nd Monday of the month Genealogy Monday 7pm
3rd Monday of the Month Podcast Swap Meet 7pm
Last Monday of the Month Social and Tech 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
 We have some new ideas for 2026.  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.
Advisory.

How to protect yourself

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) 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 
​​SeniorNet Manawatu
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​

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