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Our brand new Organizational Management skills section gives the lowdown on all you need to know about running a good ship. Strategic planning… Human resource management… Office management… Financial management…

Take a look at www.translate.google.com . This is a translation service provided by a computer and so it is not perfect. The question you want to ask is, can you use it despite its limitations?

The people who publish Drum Beat are now bringing out another newsletter concentrating on HIV/AIDS. To subscribe to DB please send an email to drumbeat@comminit.com requesting to “subscribe: HIV”. The Comminit website also has an HIV/AIDS section with current issues and stories.

Consider signing up for Family Health Research, a newsletter designed to promote the use of evidence-based practices in reproductive health programs.

jhpiego is a new website for Health Workers run in association with Johns Hopkins. It seems to have good resources and they use language appropriate to a grassroots worker trained in English. Look at their resources about malaria , for example, Malaria – protecting mothers and their families .

Will you have the money for Windows 2012 or Apple SuperDuper? If you may not, think again about the no-cost alternatives. The Word Programme that you already have includes functions that have been around for over 20 years and will be perfectly adequate for your lifetime. OR there are free, good quality Open Source programmes that you can download: for example, OpenOffice does everything Word can: Could you write a good-looking document? Yes. Could you send it to colleagues whatever programme they are using and have them open it? Yes. Could you open old documents? Almost certainly. But if there is a really old document that you need but cannot open, you could consult Jon, our technical expert at networklearning. > Contact

Do you get communications from ARROW in Malaysia? Their materials are great. And now they have some of their bulletins translated – in Thai, Mandarin, and Cebuano. If you are interested in obtaining free print copies, giving feedback, or having an AFC issue translated into an Asia-Pacific language, they would love to hear from you. Email to afc@arrow.po.my

Hesperian has a new resource, A Community Guide to Environmental Health , (free download in parts) free to poor communities around the world through the no-cost download (full download) on their website . If you do not know this website, pay it a visit! They have great materials. And please spread the word!

Here at Networklearning we have found another reason to like checklists. They are a great way of ensuring good training and improving the way professionals do their work. And now a checklist is saving lives. A study carried in eight hospitals across the world has found that using one during major operations cut deaths and complications by more than a third. It ensured that the surgical team checked that they had the right patient, checked that all the swabs and forceps were removed before the patient was sewn up, and so on. Has your organisation developed any checklists for your own workers? We would be very interested to hear about any improvements it has made. Source: news.bbc.co.uk