Today is my one year anniversary at my current job. This might not sound like a big deal but with my recent job history it is something if a minor miracle 🙂 Stephen Hale from DH has published a bit of a review of what has happened there since he started last August which has…

In October 2001 – almost 10 years to the day – I launched the first ESRC website to use a ‘content management system’. It was a new experience for both them and I. Until then I had managed websites through a combination of Notepad, Frontpage, Dreamweaver and luck. I had looked at a couple of…

I’ve been giving a little thought lately about maybe doing some formal training again for the first time in alot of years.  I have tended to learn as I go for the last decade or so and the rise of things like Twitter and Barcamps in particular has meant there have been plenty of opportunities…

One of the things that has changed in the public sector in the recent past is the pressure not to spend money on glossy, printed publications and then distribute them to stakeholders far and wide. The requirement or desire to pubish this information doesn’t go away though and so the pressure shifts to finding the…