Author: Matt Jukes

  • just a quick visit..

     After spending much of Monday discussing future web strategy with various JISC folk and then following the blog and Twitter coverage at JIF08 at Keele I was inspired to come and check out the old blog and give it a bit of a spring clean! Thankfully Akismet has been working its magic so I was…

  • First week on the Beanbag..

    So I have survived my first week working on Beanbag Learning and it has to be said its been interesting!  I’ve never worked for a small company before (though often in small teams) and have certainly never worked with a job description or even a job title!  Still its been good so far and certainly…

  • becoming a beanbagger..

    A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Beanbag Learning and offered my take on the site and how it could move forward (not that anyone had asked!).  That started a very social media style chain reaction via comments on my blog, some Facebook messaging, a handful of emails, a few beers in the 7…

  • getting satisfaction..

    I’ve had quite a bit of time time to think about stuff just lately and in particular trying to get a better handle on what it is I actually do for a living and whether it makes any sense and particularly what is it that keeps me so committed to this pretty vague career.  So…

  • Playing with Posterous

    Posterous got Techcrunched over the weekend and it sounded pretty interesting so I had a bit of a play with it and have to admit I was impressed. Posterous is the latest entry into the micoblogging world but its real beauty is in its simplicity.  It has the easiest signup procedure I’ve ever encountered and…