The real me?
May 16, 2009
I recently took part in a survey to assess my personality type to help inform what may/may not work best within the team I work for (BCE Advisory Services Team). It’s not that there’s anything wrong with our team but the process helps to identify strengths/weaknesses which help to inform how we may work even better together.
Mel Nixon (awesome guy) took the session and began by giving some of the theory behind the whole process – Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The process analyses your personality preferences. Mel explained it as being able to write with both hands however most of us have a preference i.e. I’m right-handed. The same is true of our personality which lies on a scale between four dichotomies which are: Read the rest of this entry »
Five a Day!
April 19, 2009
If this doesn’t encourage you nothing will! The fun starts about 1min through…
Awesome, thanks to Crispin Flintoff.
What do the Advisory Services Do?
February 9, 2009
Thought I’d post up my thoughts on what the 6 JISC Advisory Services (JISC Digital Media, JISC infoNet, JISC Legal, JISC Netskills, JISC Procureweb, JISC TechDis) actually carry out.
Austauschprozesse Conference
November 9, 2008
Attended a conference in Germany recently on the subject of technology/knowledge transfer. It was interesting to find that a lot of the messages coming out of the conference were very similar from the range of countries that attended such as:
Institutional Web Managers Workshop 2008
August 7, 2008
I attended the institutional web managers workshop this year in Aberdeen and it was absolutely fantastic. Anyone associated with web development in the Higher Education sector should attend this event. The plenaries, parallel sessions, discussion groups and social events are all extremely useful in their own right but it’s the inspiration and sense of belonging that one feels during and after the conference I think makes the difference.
