About a week ago, I was suddenly seconded to work on a new project. There was a half-hour meeting with my boss, Donna, and her boss, Linda. And voila, I walked out of the meeting with a new job.
In project management terms, this is a high-impact project. Many people, within and outside the organisation, have [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Communicating about a new project
24-Jan-08New year, new project
22-Jan-08Sometimes you just get lucky.
A couple of weeks before Christmas, on my last day at work, an all-staff email announced an Information Futures Commission would start work in the new year. The Commission would develop a 10-year strategic plan for the University’s ’scholarly information’ environment — libraries, information literacy, curation of data created as a [...]
Over the years, I’ve built up a toolkit of essential software, gadgets and reference material. This ‘toolkit’ series introduces some particular favorites that you, too, might find useful.
Web Developer add-on for Firefox
Since its early days, I have preferred Firefox over Internet Explorer as my default web browser. Firefox was faster to launch, it downloaded pages [...]