Oct

13

PR Agencies - and then there were loads …

October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Good grief I have really taken my eye off the ball concerning this blog! Seems my energies have been more focussed on the other blog … not sure what that says about me really. Still here goes for something more ‘professional’ …
It seems like only yesterday whent the thought of engaging a (yeuk!) PR agency […]

May

2

Libraries of the Future

May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Well JISC’s first proper campaign is off the blocks - Libraries of the Future was launched at the JISC Conference and was swiftly followed up with a special supplement appearing on the Guardian. As part of the deal the Guardian provide a dedicated micro-site with the supplement available in a web version although this […]

Apr

11

JISC Conference 2008

April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here we go - just entering the mild panic stage prior to next weeks JISC conference on 15 April at the International Conferennce Centre in Birmingham. This year we had to close the books quite early as we filled all the sessions quickly - now have over 850 people coming which sounds a bit like […]

Feb

21

TF-PR Image Repository

February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

TF-PR Meeting - 21 February 2008
Terena have developed, following a previous TF-PR meeting suggestion, an archive for photos and this platform could be used to build an album for TF-PR images. The platform can only accommodate photographs but not for logos or graphical materials. There was a wider discussion about why existing platforms shouldn’t […]

Jan

11

We Are All Twits

January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

I am having one of my’ do I believe it or don’t I ‘ moments … the team has been churning over what we plan to do in terms of ‘new technology’ around the JISC Conference 2008 . Amongst other things it seems as if Twitter will play a part probably as a micro-blogging tool […]

Dec

20

There goes another one …

December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Well thats 2007 all done and dusted work-wise. Sometimes it seems hard to look back and see what has been acheived, but maybe I am still too close to it. The year seems personally to have revolved around HR issues, some sensible and some mad (like the University of Bristol farago on a new ‘harmonised […]

Nov

8

JISC Members Briefing Day

November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The latest JISC Briefing Day for Committee and Board members took place on 7 November at the Wellcome Conference centre in London. These events are notoriously difficult occasions, not least because of the sometimes over-massaged egos of a few participants but also because of the difficulty in judging and pitching the sessions – too much […]

Oct

24

Xavier University Web 2.0 strategy

October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Educause 2007 - Wednesday 24 October
Xavier is a 175 yrs old Jesuit university with a traditional liberal arts background and suffering a recent drop in students. The Info Resources team was formed in 2001 but benefited from little subsequent integration; its services were rudimentary and they worked with very limited personnel. Information services were heavily […]

Oct

24

Educause 2007 and Seattle

October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is my first visit to Educause, though all the literature is proudly trumpeting 20 years. the 2007 conference is housed in the Convention and Trade Centre in Seattle as well as the nearby Sheraton Hotel. The huge programme, delegate numbers and exhibition area dwarfs anything seen in the Uk (at least in my experience) […]

Oct

5

Terena News

October 5, 2007 | 1 Comment

The TF-PR group within Terena contribute national stories to a news serviec called PeaR. News items from this are then published via the Terena News pages. Naturally RSS feeds are availabe and Terena have recently begun posting podcasts - the four available at the time of posting not surprisingly concentrate on the recent Terenaa Networking […]

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