Back to reality

For those who weren’t aware there was a prize to be awarded at the end of the ‘31 days to a better blog’ challenge. The worthy winners were the mini-legends from Australia (see Sue’s post). I was personally particularly impressed by the dedication of both the class and their teacher in using blogging for the [...]

Wow

Forget the Vista Wow (BTW - has anyone actually gone ‘Wow’ or was it more ‘Whew’ at the cost and bloat of it all?), anyway I’ve just had my first looks at the printed version of the ICT Hub Guide to Managing ICT in the Voluntary and Community Sector (link here to download or [...]

Old Skool

Its been nearly a month since my last posting on the blog. Hectic could describe the past few weeks, my work at NAVCA for the Hub has involved co-ordination and checking of the Regional Champions plans, their regional meetings and the other work NAVCA are involved with for the hub (SKiLD and the Unmet Needs [...]

Wet Wet Wet - so please make a change!

Not blogged about a railway journey for a while, so here goes.
25th June - monthly ICT Hub Ops meeting in London today, great chance to meet up with the others on the hub, share some news and get updates on what we are all doing, or so I thought.
You may have seen we had a [...]

End of Part One

End of March already … and i’m apologising for no recent blog updates again. It’s not because I don’t want to, just a lack of time between family, work in the office and travelling around visiting all these great regional ICT projects… perhaps I should use twitter to keep in touch… still unsure about that [...]

Destination 2014 or Destination Tamworth

Tony’s post over on Okotie World about SatNav systems got me thinking about various journey metaphors. Tuesday, I went to the first of the Capacity Builders Destination 2014 consultation events which was for the South East Region and held in Oxford, i’ll come back to the review, but on the way home my train [...]

Don’t get put off by Kettle 2.0

We’d got a new kettle in the kitchen when I arrived in the office today. Probably just like it is in your office we all troop religiously back and fro at frequent intervals throughout the day to ensure our caffeine levels are kept topped up. There’s nothing new in the end result - it [...]

Catch

Caught up with a the ICT Hub lot yesterday - good to find out news and updates… via the good old method of… er talking around a table! Trivial (discussing Big Brother) and serious (which style of trophy we should have for the hub awards!
Em Tee, I can confirm Newark Station coffee shop is now [...]

mega-conversations

I was going to write tonight about about the FOSS Ubuntu usability debate that has been taking place on ukriders but thought that’s not very Web2.0 is it… why read my version of it when you can instead have it first-hand on the discussion list and comment live to the debate.
Instead to add to [...]

nth degree

What annoys me is when the press take a story - albeit usually a true story and spin it “to the nth degree“. Why can’t facts be presented for us all to make up our own minds about, do we really need some 2nd rate hack telling us what to make of a story? [...]