Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Jiva Gang Launch Tutorhub Beta

    Last night I attended the beta launch of Tutorhub.com from my old (well not so old) colleagues at Jiva Technology at the Watershed. In some ways it was a bit of a strange experience for me – I was extremely involved in the early thinking and planning around the product, though back then it was…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 7/33

    Weeknote 6/33 was a no-show as I was on annual leave that week and while I could write an update on vodka, champagne and Erdinger consumption and Twestival attendance it probably is inappropriate for this format. Week 7/33 inevitably consisted of a fair bit of catching up. As I have mentioned before JISC is a…

  • Thinking through a conference website

    I’m involved with the planning of a couple of events at the moment and maybe not surprisingly I am obsessing a little bit over getting the web presence aspect right. One of the events is relatively high profile and very much a topic that will mean it gets noticed by webby types so first and…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 5/33

    This week had two pretty overwhelming themes – process and synthesis. First though a quick rant about just how poor the IT infrastructure we have to work with internally is. From about 4.30 last Friday til past midday on Monday we had no email at all. For an organisation that essentially runs on email (for…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 2/33

    Bit of a strange meeting/event dominated week. Was in London more than is probably healthy for a Brizzle boy like me. Main task on Monday was following through with contacting some of my projects to talk them through closing down the projects and what JISC expects from the final paperwork. This highlighted a bit of…