Author: Matt Jukes

  • Feeling better about [#bebettr] ?

    Well not really 😦 When I decided to take on running Be Bettr this time and make it something much larger scale and a little bit more formal I thought I would either still be working for JISC or maybe freelancing – either way I would have had available headspace for Bettr. As it happens…

  • Back to school(ish)

    Many years ago (1997) I was pretty competent writing HTML from scratch in Notepad. The sites were basic but I kept up with the standards and was pretty proud to have taught myself how to contribute to the web. A couple of years later I added some basic CSS knowledge to the mix and some…

  • [#drumbeat] reflections

    I’ve had a week to reflect on my Drumbeat experience now and am feeling more able to report on it in a more balanced manner. I did have a great time and found the event inspiring in places and never less than interesting but it wasn’t without its problems as well. I really struggled with…

  • [#drumbeat] tagcloud

    …powered by Tagxedo (as always). Did a little bit of data clean up and it is based on tweets from the week of the conference rather than just the two main days but I think it looks pretty good 🙂 Also here is a link to the Summarizr analysis of the Twitter activity around the…

  • Fun in the sun – a personal take on [#drumbeat]

    I’ve committed to writing up an overview of my experiences at Drumbeat but I am going to give myself a little distance before I settle down to do that but I wanted to get some general impressions of the trip down. There were alot of little wins for me on the logistical front – I…