Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Digital by default discussions: Amber Thomas

I’ve known Amber for quite a few years now – we first bumped in to each other while she was at Becta (some meeting about the NLN – a programme that Becta ended in ’05 to put it in perspective) but by then she was already a veteran of JISC. A few years later I…

September 8, 2013
Six of the best: 312 weeks blogging on WordPress

So I’ve just realised that I have missed my six year anniversary of this blog (well the original incarnation of this blog anyway) so I have been reminiscing a little. I started my first WordPress blog (after playing around with both Typepad and Blogger but not getting anywhere) on the original alpha of the Jisc…

September 7, 2013
52: Week Nineteen

Kind of an intense week to make up for skiving with my bad tooth last week I guess. Monday and Tuesday I was in London for a whole host of meetings – mainly with Cabinet Office/GDS but a few other folk as well. I stayed in Pimlico for two nights which also meant getting…

September 7, 2013
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…

September 6, 2013
Digital by default discussions: Zak Mensah

Zak is another survivor of the JISC family like myself. Unlike me however he actually used to contribute something useful to the higher education community as a key member of the JISC Digital Media team (TASI to those of us of a certain age.) Amongst other things he is fast becoming a bit of a…

August 31, 2013