Category: jobs
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2024 Ambitions

2023 Ambitions retrospective Last year’s ambitions were not very ambitious but I did end up achieving most of them. I travelled more than I even intended (five significant trans-Atlantic trips), got my first tattoo, attended a handful of conferences and spoke at some of them. Contributed to a podcast. I blogged a lot, maintained the…
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2023 in review

The year I turned 50 is a strange one to review as while it was really a year of much good, a couple of events cast a shadow over much of the time. Nan passing away at 101 was hardly a surprise but it has definitely made for a sadder end to the year than…
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Newsletter home hunting

So TinyLetter has announced its forthcoming demise and while I have been pretty sure it was going to happen it is nonetheless a sad day. The simplicity of it as a platform is a big reason that I started – and maintained – my jobs newsletter. It is light on features compared to other products…
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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…
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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 –…