Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Survive or Thrive Conference

    I’m pretty pleased to be involved with the Survive or Thrive conference for three reasons (1) it is occasionally nice to be working on something that I actually feel I know what I’m talking about (2) it has been an opportunity for Stef and I to put into action some of the events related website…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 12/33

    Short week again due to the Bank Holiday plus Friday was a little blurry due to getting sucked in to the election coverage til far too late (and early). Spent alot of this week thinking, talking and writing about ‘synthesis’…..now I have long since given up trying to define what the hell we mean by…

  • Trying Twitter Blackbird Pie

    Yesterday Twitter released a tool that creates an embeddable version of individual ‘tweets’ so they can more easily be used for quotes in blogs etc – it is rather oddly called Blackbird Pie. Using Twitter quotes in blogposts is more and more common and I’ve been known to do it myself on the odd occasion.…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 11/33

    So last week I was 1/3 of the way through this little experiment with weeknotes. The main thing that happened was that I realised that I was in danger of completely losing the plot as far as managing my work load. One of the defining elements of life as a JISC Programme Manager is that…

  • Shall We DEACTivate?

    The Digital Economy Act is now a reality and is likely to remain so whoever wins the election (despite the fact the LibDems have pledged to repeal it) so rather than just moan about it on Twitter and join another Facebook group I thought it might be good to try and do something a bit…