May
18
MarketingNREN Services - SURFNet and ARNES
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
SURFNET - Netherlands
Currently product managers are responsible for marketing their services including marketing mix, budgets, encouraging take up etc. Have more recently coordinated comms and marketing work to help consolidate calendars of activity and scheduling.
They are trying to address questions of when in the life cycle comms should be included and what sort […]
May
18
Marketing NREN Services - JANET UK
May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
TNC 2008
JANET – Russell Nelson
There are three stages of how marketing takes place in an NREN – one person does it, a team does it, everyone does it. There are also two stages on the sales path - either simply providing the information – shouting at the customer, and secondly trying to persuade people […]
Dec
7
The Latest HEA/JISC Event
December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Organising a joint event between two organisations is not an enviable task, and this third (?) gathering of disparate JISC and HEA staff only confirmed how hard this is. I will keep my (copious) comments and views about the half of this event that I experienced between me and the appropriate people, but it was […]
Oct
26
Thoughts on Educause 2007
October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It is hard not to be impressed by the scale and organisation of a conference the size of Educause – 7000 delegates and the programme and logistics that go with it are no mean feat. There is nothing to compare within the UK or EU which is both regrettable and not surprising. I had heard […]
Oct
25
Social Software in Higher Education: Isolated Accidents or the Start of Something Big?
October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Educause 2007 - Wednesdsay 24 October
Presenters were: Bas Cordewener – Manager International Collaboration, SURF Foundation; Eja Kliphuis – Educational Consultant, INHOLLAND University of Professional Education; Julie K Little – Associate Director, ELI, Educause; Cyprien P Loma – Director, Learning Centre, University of British Columbia
The session covered four examples of social software use and […]
Oct
11
Future of JISC Services Communications Group
October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
For some time a Services Communications Group has been meeting at roughly quarterly intervals with the aim of developing a professional communications and marketing culture through shared experiences and up-skilling workshops across the JISC Services. The group has the following Terms of Reference:
Terms of Reference:
To encourage and support JISC Services to align their communications […]