Digital by Default

Category: events

  • dConstruct ’13

    Last year was the first time I attended dConstruct and at a time when I was feeling particularly drained and despondent about my career choices it gave me a shot in the arm that at least kept me going until Christmas – which was pretty amazing considering where I was mentally at the time. I…

  • Speak Up!

    ###Unfortunately circumstances have changed and I have had to withdraw from this speaking opportunity – however I have replaced it with a couple of others.###   Since my little 30/30 blog experiment I have been thinking about what geeky challenge to set myself next. What I have landed on is to **try** and do more…

  • Govcamp goes big?

    There was a bit of a burst of energy on the #ukgc14 tag on Twitter this week – six months or so before the event is actually expected. James Cattell has jumped in to the driving seat as organiser for the event as Steph has stepped back as his efforts to move from small to…

  • A Web Management Wake

    Last night I attended a strange kind of conference after-party. It was in fact more like an after party (or a wake) for an organisation. After almost two decades of service to HE geeks (especially of the library and web variety) UKOLN is soon to shut its doors and as a consequence of that this…

  • Brown bagging it..

    The idea of a ‘brown bag’ talk/seminar seems like a particularly American thing – I mean we don’t really ‘brown bag’ it here in the UK, its all about the ‘packed lunch’ 🙂 Nonetheless from US academia via startups and global web companies the idea has even reached the dark corner of the Civil Service…