{"id":750,"date":"2021-05-28T09:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/?p=750"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T08:25:27","slug":"digital-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2021\/05\/28\/digital-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Face to face or on the hotline \u2013 our Digital Champions are ready to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-648\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2021\/03\/Andy-Taylor-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"longdesc-return-648\" class=\" wp-image-648\" src=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2021\/03\/Andy-Taylor-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Digital Champion Andy Taylor who recently helped reconnect a woman with her family via Zoom\" width=\"404\" height=\"303\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first?longdesc=648&amp;referrer=750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2021\/03\/Andy-Taylor-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2021\/03\/Andy-Taylor-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2021\/03\/Andy-Taylor-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2021\/03\/Andy-Taylor-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2021\/03\/Andy-Taylor-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of our Digital Champions, Andy Taylor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our Digital Champions are back in libraries and community centres giving face-to-face support to people who need tech advice.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions are underway at Sturminster Newton Learning Centre on Mondays (9.30am-12.30pm) and Wednesdays (9.30am to mid-afternoon), at Yarn Barn Centre in Beaminster (Wednesday mornings) and in the following libraries: Dorchester (Thursday afternoons), Gillingham (Saturday mornings), Weymouth (Tuesday afternoons), Littlemoor (Thursday afternoons) and Ferndown (Wednesday mornings).<\/p>\n<p>The sessions have to be booked in advance and are carried out in a Covid-secure environment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile our Digital Hotline is still very much operational for people who cannot get to those libraries.<\/p>\n<p>To speak to a Digital Champion on the hotline, and to book one of library sessions, call 01305 221048.<\/p>\n<p>For the Sturminster Newton sessions email <a href=\"mailto:snclc@btconnect.com\">snclc@btconnect.com<\/a> or (only when open) call 01258 475272.<\/p>\n<p>For the Beaminster sessions call 01308 805060.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Digital Champions are back in libraries and community centres giving face-to-face support to people who need tech advice. Sessions are underway at Sturminster Newton Learning Centre on Mondays (9.30am-12.30pm) and Wednesdays (9.30am to mid-afternoon), at Yarn Barn Centre in Beaminster (Wednesday mornings) and in the following libraries: Dorchester (Thursday afternoons), Gillingham (Saturday mornings), Weymouth&hellip; <span class=\"kuorinka-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2021\/05\/28\/digital-champions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Face to face or on the hotline \u2013 our Digital Champions are ready to help<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1907,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,49,57],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2021\/05\/Andy-Taylor-2-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}