Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Thoughts on the HEFCE Review of JISC

So the long awaited (well by me anyway!) review of JISC by Sir Alan Wilson was published this week. To be honest I was expecting a little more noise from my corner of the web about it – alot of people have been conspicuous by their absence as far as discussions online are concerned and…

February 9, 2011
Feedback from Facebook Fasting..

So as I wrote about on New Years day https://digitalbydefault.com/2011/01/01/farewell-to-facebook/ I decided to take a month off from Facebook. The biggest reason if I’m honest was just to see if I could! I’ve always been a heavy user of both Facebook and Twitter and since getting an iPhone my time on both had increased even…

January 30, 2011
#quangocamp – a govcamp for the rest of us?

So despite my promise to myself not to get involved in any more events at least during the first half of 2011 I was struck by an idea while attending #ukgc11. Well to be honest it was the bubbling up of an old idea and an evolution of something I’ve spoken to a few people…

January 24, 2011
Thoughts on #ukgc11

Yesterday I finally attended my first UKGovCamp. I’ve intended to attend all the previous incarnations of this event but each time things came up that forced me to give up my tickets. Though at the first event my drunken adventures on a stag-do in Poland did feature quite heavily on the Twitter backchannel due to…

January 23, 2011
Loving the Little Wins

2011 has started pretty well it has to be said. As I have mentioned before #bebettr went off with barely a hitch and Eventstreams is picking up momentum (though my role is negligible there!) and it turned out the waves of positivity I felt about my new job before Christmas were not an illusion I…

January 20, 2011