Category: jobs

  • Week Four – I’m Listening 

    Week Four – I’m Listening 

    Well this week flew by. We are really starting to get under the skin of the Open Referrals work – seeing how it fits into the wider ecosystem of products, standards, policies, user needs and organisation requirements. Not to mention taking a good look at the ups and downs, wins and losses of other open…

  • Q&A for Scottish Digital Academy Roadmap session

    Q&A for Scottish Digital Academy Roadmap session

    Hokay – I have tried to address all the questions though I have grouped a bunch of similar ones together and I suspect I missed a couple – but I’m three hours in now so I’m going to have to stop! Examples of roadmaps Honestly this would have been easier a few years ago –…

  • Man with a plan

    Man with a plan

    I only have a few weeks left in gainful employment and thoughts about what I might do next are coming into focus. Despite it probably being the worst possible time for this I have decided to try and spin up a little ‘lifestyle’ business (well two-ish) rather than go in-house or take a contract/interim role.…

  • What’s next

    What’s next

    So once again I am looking for work.  Rather than dwell on the negative reasons as to why I am searching again I am going to take the opportunity to reset my professional expectations a bit in a way that I flirted with 18 months ago but didn’t follow through with. First things first I…

  • Fatal Five: Twitter vs Mastodon vs Bluesky vs Threads vs…LinkedIn?!

    Fatal Five: Twitter vs Mastodon vs Bluesky vs Threads vs…LinkedIn?!

    Twitter I joined Twitter in July 2007 though my addiction didn’t really take hold until January 2008. As I’ve said before it has mainly been a force for good in my life despite what it has become – it has given me friends around the world, massively influenced my career, provided me perspectives I wouldn’t…