Category: thoughts
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Farewell to Facebook..
..for a few weeks anyway. Unlike alot of my more digitally minded friends and associates I’ve never had a problem with Facebook. Sure it has insanely over complicated privacy settings, and it knows far too much about everyone and you are never sure what they are doing with that data. The apps are irritating and…
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2010 – a year in eight paragraphs
After the horror that was 2009 it has to be said this year has been pretty good from a professional point of view. It wasn’t without its ups and downs and there were some rough patches but all-in-all I can look back on it with some contentment. The majority of the year I was still…
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All the Pieces Matter…[Developing a Digital Strategy]
OK the wire reference is a bit of a stretch but to be honest I’m surprised I haven’t used it before now :) In many ways my new job is very much a return to my roots running websites. The fact I am back working in the same offices as where I was first officially…
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Closing the door on open education..
..for a while anyway. Even before I returned to JISC for a year I had become extremely interested in the whole open education movement. At JISC I was lucky enough to work on the OER programme a little which meant meeting a whole army of incredibly intelligent and committed people working in the area. I…
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Back to school(ish)
Many years ago (1997) I was pretty competent writing HTML from scratch in Notepad. The sites were basic but I kept up with the standards and was pretty proud to have taught myself how to contribute to the web. A couple of years later I added some basic CSS knowledge to the mix and some…
