Guidance for using the online toolkit

This section is the online toolkit. It’s different from the printed toolkit, although some of the resources in each will be the same.

The toolkit allows you to get information in three different ways, depending on what you’re focussing on. These are: information by project type, information by process stage and a ‘tag cloud’ to capture everything else. Some resources are available in all three options, and some only in one or two options. It just depends on where we think it’s most relevant. The 3 ways each have their own tab in the toolkit section. Click on the tab to look find information within that section.

Using the Project Type tab

The project type tab, enables you to zero in on resources that are specific to the type of PB process you’re interested in. You can pick the model, the aims, the geographic location, the amount of money spent, and so on. When you pick an option from one category, you can also narrow down within the category using the other categories. So you can find resources, for example, for community grants pots in the North East allocating £50,000. To select a category, just click the tick box beside it.

As you click different categories you will see the resources available change and narrow down in the resources box at the bottom of the page. You can select resources at any point during the narrowing down process by clicking on them as they appear in the resources box. The resources will then open in a new tab on your internet browser. This will enable you to continue looking for resources without losing the ones you’re interested in. You can then download, print and save from each tab using your ‘file’ menu in your browser.

Using the Process stages tab

The process stages tab uses a simplified model of a generic PB process to sort different resources. You can find the resources for each stage in the process by clicking on that stage in the diagram. The resources will then appear in the resources box at the bottom of the page. As before, you can click on any resources in the box at any time and they will open in a new tab in your browser. This will enable you to save them before moving on to another process stage or resource selection option.

Using the Tag cloud tab

The tag cloud is your basic tagging tool. You may well have seen these used on other websites. Tags are keywords that relate to the particular piece of information, content or resource. We have used this as it’s a good ‘catch all’ for other resources that don’t fit well either into a stage in the PB process or fall into a particular PB project type. This includes items from international PB, conference materials, and academic or other reports that write about PB in a more general sense.

To use the tag cloud, just click on a word in it and all the resources that are tagged with that word will be shown in the resources box at the bottom of the page. As with the other sections, you can click on the resources in the box at any point and they will open in a new browser tab to enable you to continue looking for resources without losing those ones you’re interested in.

Comments

This is a new section for the website and is currently under ongoing development. We would love to hear your comments about the section – if it’s useful, if it’s easy to use, if there’s some resource that you’d like to see in there etc. The purpose of the section is for you, to find resources that will help you implement PB, so we want to make sure it works for you.