Just Blogging

I like it when a plan starts to come together- it makes all the head scratching, negotiating, explaining, presenting, conversations, developments, and (dare I say it) frustrations, seem worthwhile. Initially I had doubts, all be them small ones, about how successful the potential of my Production Lab project could be. Taking into consideration the number [...]

One key element of this Production Lab module is demonstrating social media platforms and strategy developments to ET Cluster clients that will also be exhibiting at the National Exhibition Centre in April at Sustainability Live. As part of the research element to successfully deliver this, I traveled to see Stuart Whitehill today. Stuart is the [...]

Twice this week I have attended meetings and teaching sessions with the Birmingham team representatives of http://openstreetmap.org The platform, http://awmist.org is built on the OSM format, with the map tiles being hosted on servers in Germany, maintained by Frederik Ramm from http://geofabrik.de The current AWMist website is populated with content drawn from the ICT Cluster [...]

Project update: Following three client team meetings, the Production Lab project has progressed through red, amber and green stages, and is now live. The agreed social media platforms to be used have been identified as Twitter and LinkedIn, with additional scoping considered for ButoTV, an external video hosting and social networking platform commissioned by AWM [...]

A new learning journey is hopefully about to begin. I have over the past week or so, following meetings and conversations, been investigating AWMist, Open Street Map and Mappa-Mercia with introductions, invitations and contact sharing provided by Dave Harte and Andrew Mackenzie (Mappa Mercia), to see if there is a way of integrating tagging applications, [...]

Positive steps have been taken today. The AdvantagWM Twitter account has been registered for the communications team to use. Sarah and I shall be investigating what sort of conversations audiences are having about AWM, and will endeavour to monitor audience conversations on a regular basis. Contact has been made with Andrew Mackenzie, one of the [...]

Keywords: * Quality * Budget * Deadline Firstly- the myth that all project managers are short is a false one- only the best ones are restricted in height (allegedly). I’m not going to tell you how tall I am. The soft parts of project management: this is all about people skills- a good project manager [...]