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Long Goodbye – 20th July 2009
So my last day at Jiva will be July 20th and as to all intents and purposes this is also the most appropriate time to mark my leaving Bristol (that will happen in stages over the next several months but I certainly won’t be around much Monday to Friday) so I thought I would make…
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Becta one pager..
These are some notes from the presentation (no slides) I had to give as part of my interview at Becta; reading it now I’m a little disappointed with it – certainly not my best work but it does cover some of my thinking about what I’d like to do. That said it does amazingly skip…
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Moving to Becta
So apparently it is that time of year again and time for me to make another major decision about my professional future that causes sleepless nights. After almost exactly a year at Jiva I have resigned and will be moving to Becta as Head of e-Communications in a little over a month. I’m sure most…
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Conference crazy
Spent a bit of time actually sorting out my calendar yesterday (something I only seem to do about twice a year, depending on a combination of memory and luck the rest of the time!) and I realised that June and July was filling up rapidly with some really interesting events and that I was going…
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – ouch
So after a day of considerable Twitter speculation it seems that the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills is a goner and will be replaced by a new super-Department under the Lord of Darkness, Peter Mandelson. DIUS has only been around for 2 years by my estimation and apart from some really great work in…