Digital by Default

Digital by Default

WikiMedia UK recruiting a Chief Exec

Seems like it is all go at WMUK these days. Since the Annual Conference back in April not only do they seem to have ramped up the outreach events but now they are recruiting for a Chief Exec for the organisation (and are applying to be a ‘proper’ charity.) This is all exciting stuff –…

July 16, 2011
Revisiting the BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

Back in 2007 I arranged for Tom Loosemore to give the closing keynote at the JISC conference. At the time Tom was Project Director for BBC2.0 and it was a classic case of inviting someone because I wanted to hear what they had to say 🙂 In my opinion it was a great talk…

July 15, 2011
A real ‘bar’ camp at IWMW

I am facilitating a session at IWMW for a small, select group 🙂 The group in fact is so small I have decided to move the session to the nearest bar and buy the group a round of drinks (thus a real ‘bar’camp!) To keep it on track and useful though I thought I would…

July 12, 2011
Wikipedia Workshop (Day Job 2)

[this is part of my new weekly series of posts focusing on the things I am getting up to at work – basically a new format for my old weeknotes.] In a couple of weeks time my organisation will be running a WikiAcademy for the first time. A small group of staff (a mix of…

June 18, 2011
The Day Job

Been a while since I actually wrote anything about what I’m actually up to at work – probably since I stopped doing the ‘weeknotes’ so probably nothing much about the (not so) new job. I’ve been working for the MRC eight months now and am finally starting to feel settled and as such am considering…

June 9, 2011