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A great week spent at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Further reflections to come. Next week in one word: countdown.

Project achievements included: - financial sign off for next phase of the printing project - the authentication project - and the next tranche of windows hardware replacement - not forgetting actually managing to get out of my sick bed And also: - first cut of the heads of department update presentation Next week in one … Continue reading Week 27 – in which I succumbed to man flu

Back in 1994 I bought my first windows PC. I say bought... It was actually leased from Radio Rentals. Manufactured by Olivetti, it was a 486 with a whopping 4 mb of RAM. I remember the awe and amazement as I saw a postage stamp-sized video clip played off an encyclopedia CD-ROM that came free … Continue reading Progress

I've been working in the marketing agency sector for a couple of years now, and the differences between it and the media industries where I've spent more time over the years are becoming clearer. Although on the face of it companies in the two industries do similar things (running projects to allow 'creatives' to be … Continue reading Agency matters

Project achievements included: - concluded ERP consultancy meetings - further testing of the interactive projector -key stakeholder meetings on the content story And also: - preparation for Cloud Circle Forum - a good catch up with @andrewdotcom - a day off to celebrate Oscar's first birthday Next week in one word: moving

London has been subjected to industrial action on at least three fronts this week. Earlier the RMT action lead to fairly comprehensive disruption to the London Underground, and today both fire fighters and journalists at the BBC are scheduled to down tools. First off, I must declare something of a vested interest in that latter … Continue reading Striking behaviour

At the weekend I was in conversation with my sister-in-law about the experience of shopping online. Our conclusion seemed to be that in comparison to bricks and mortar (there's a phrase from the past), online shopping by its nature tends to be driven by price almost alone. Whilst I stood the corner for the value-added … Continue reading Online customer service

Project achievements included: - starting presentations of the Content Story to senior stakeholder groups - watching presentations from potential ERP consulting firms - catching up with our network supplier Sales Director - trialling of new interactive projectors from Epson Additionally: - Gone Google webinar - interesting networking in the real world via Twitter - the … Continue reading Weeknote 25 – In which I kept pressing "hang up" at the beginning of conference calls…

Paradigm is a word that usually has me heading for the hills, holding my ears for the clanging bells of the IT marketing bullshitometer. However, there is one context in which I will use the word, and that is to describe the broken problem/solution paradigm that has underpinned unsuccessful IT projects in businesses for decades. … Continue reading Broken paradigms

Some good conversations yesterday, in the morning with @em_stone, and in the afternoon with @robgray and @mattycharman. An observation that came out, and a link that I hadn't made before, is that whilst senior IT folk seem quite at home with new gadgets, they seem far less at ease with the application of software on … Continue reading Gadget freaks