Bear with me. This story starts with a journey. 25th April 2017, 14:30: Bristol. It was a Tuesday. I was heading home from a meeting. There is a Train Service provider in the UK called CrossCountry Trains. They have a fleet of trains with LCD seat reservations. The seat reservation system downloads all the reservations…
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What cats taught me about project management
Recently we held a really fun day of internal talks around a variety of issues. I chose to build on the metaphor that Amber Thomas first suggested around “cats and dead birds”. I have used this before in workshops, but I wanted to build on it, and with limited time available (max 10 minutes) this…
Read morePerspectives on Digital: Change isn’t coming, it’s here and it’s permanent
I have done two keynotes recently where I have been asked to talk about the future, to look ahead at the horizon and suggest what it might look like when we reach it. Quite frankly, I would be an idiot to try and do that beyond what we know already, and even more so if…
Read moreDigital Literacy and the problem of balancing Presence and Anonymity
“… in the context of talking about behaviour online, the notion of “anonymous trolls” comes up often enough, I think it’s worth interrogating, and also making visible the variety of non-toxic anonymous and pseudonymous presences that people cultivate on the web.” Donna Lanclos, 2015 Anonymity as come to the forefront of the debates around digital…
Read moreDo we need new pedagogies? Really?
I was engaged in an online discussion recently, and frankly annoyed. There are a lot of commentators pushing for pedagogy to catch up with technology, or for technology to catch up with pedagogy. And don’t even get me started when someone starts throwing around things like heutagogy. So I wanted to reflect on three things…
Read moreDigital Persistence: Reflecting on Blipfoto
On the first of January 2009, inspired by various people, I embarked on a Photo a day Project, a project 365. To capture a photo every day for a year. I used what was a free service, Blipfoto. On 6th November I reached day 2,500 of project 365. During that time used over 11 cameras,…
Read moreTwitter added a heart button, thanks Twitter
So this week Twitter changed the little star indicating favourite to a heart and my twitter stream exploded! Dave Cormier’s Tweets have often inspired me write a blog post and as you can see below, he’s done so again. Dave’s reaction was mild compared with some in timeline, but he kept it clean. I have…
Read moreLeadership and (Social Media) Digital Presence
As part of the Jisc Digital Leaders Programme I delivered a short session about Leadership and Social Media. The programme is a pilot, and the first revision is the title of this short blog, reflecting the feeling of the delegates that the following points should apply to all digital presence. These are the main points…
Read moreMarginal Gain and Digital Capability
[caption id="attachment_7820" align="alignright" width="285"] Making small changes in digital practice[/caption] I was recently looking at the visitor and resident map I had drawn around my own digital capability and practice and was wondering what I could or should be doing that would make a big change to my own practice. Later in the day I…
Read moreSocial media, digital presence and hen harriers
Recently in discussion with Dave White about the Visitor – Resident Model we started thinking about what we mean by professional. In creating my own VR map (below) I started to realise that we have substituted the word professional to mean what we do for work. Whilst I work for Jisc, I also work for…
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