Planning is well in hand for tomorrow’s Women on the Web in Leeds (17th September). This all-day conference at exciting venue NTI will bring together over 40 businesswomen. A Forward Ladies event, it is sponsored by NTI and Reach Further, who are organising it. With Meg Pickard as our keynote
Blogger Alan Levine recently commented on the problems of social media and web applications letting you down just when you need them. In Don’t Cry When Social Media Flops, Just Move On he talked about what happens when the tool you use goes down, particularly in the context of conferences
The BBC reports today on the number of “mums” starting their own businesses. Apparently the number of women working for themselves has leapt by nearly 20% since 2000, according to official figures, and now tops a million. It’s not surprising that more and more people – and not just mums
Despite the tremendous value that an online community can bring to a organisation or business, it’s never really true that “if you build it they will come”. There are all sorts of reasons why online communities may fail. Recently many commentators have been covering the The Wall Street Journal Article
Reach Further’s Liz Cable is profiled in the Independent’s Flexible Working feature today. Reach Further is very committed to flexible working and as well as providing various solution for its own employees works with others to develop skills in managing remote teams and networking online. You can see some of
Last Thursday ELESIG – the Special Interest Group for Research into the Learner Experience – held a webinar focusing on research methodology for evaluating the learner’s experience of elearning. As community lead for the project (one of my roles for Reach Further) it is great to be able to report
I’ve been really busy, lately. Reach Further have moved offices. We can now be found at Reach Further Ltd.Round Foundry Media CentreFoundry StreetLeedsLS11 5QP I’ve also revamped the website and finally set up a decent WordPress blog. I’m liking WordPress, and it’s maybe time I moved this blog over to
I will be attending the NLab Social Networks Conference in June. The conference aims to explore the benefits of social networks for business http://www.nlabnetworks.com/ Thursday 19th & Friday 20th June 2008 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK * What is a social network and how can it generate wealth for your
I’ve just welcomed the 71st member to the new Ning community for ELESIG. It’s great to see so many elearning researchers and practitioners who have an interest in the learner experience. The take up for the community and for the inaugural workshop – was it only last week? – has
Everything on the Web is archived (check www.archive.org). It may be impossible to take something down once it is online so be careful what you post and what you allow others to post. So consider what would happen if your next employer Googled you. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t put anything on the Web, just review everything first. Your holiday pictures of the South of France on Flickr are probably fine – but not the stag party in Magaluf. Your blog reflecting on news and issues of relevance to professionals like yourself may build you a professional reputation, but your no-holds-barred blog about the terrible kids and teachers at your inner-city school should probably be anonymous.