SharePoint and Office 365

As we look for cloud solutions Office 365 seems too good to be true. £4 per month per user for hosted Exchange and SharePoint...

Found this intersting video http://www.office-outlook.com/outlook-forum/index.php/m/142886/

EU publishes draft directive for future of Public Sector procurement

Excellent article from www.procurementleaders.com about the proposed chnages to EU legislation for public sector procurement. Could be some New Year cheer for SME's!

Reading Borough Council web site launched

The revamped Reading borough Council web site went live last week. www.reading.gov.uk.

Councillors throwing a spanner in works of usable online services

Interesting article in UKauthorITy today about the SOCITM Better Connected conference last week which I attended. Seems we all still have to have news on our home page even though the customer doesn't want it!

Top Tasks for Council Web SItes

As we are currently engaged by a local authority to redevelop their web site, this article by Gerry McGovern is a timely reminder and highlights the benefits of task focussed web sites and argues 'less is better'

Our RepRap goes to Brighton Maker Faire

We are taking our RepRaps (hopefully we will have two by then) to the Brighton Maker Faire. The event is on Saturday, 3RD September, at the Dome in Brighton. Hannah and Malcolm will be appearing as RepNap and have hooked up with a guy called Daniel Soltis – who has a hacked Kinect to create a system called hand:drawn. We hope to be printing out 3d letters that people have drawn in thin air in front of Daniel’s Kinect. It is an artistic endeavour especially for this MakerFaire but who knows where it will lead!

Public Sector Assets Mapped for all to see!

Now you can see what land an property the public sector owns. DCLG website has a map that shows pubic sector assets including 87 Councils. The 'suggestion' from DCLG is that these might be sold to avoid cutbacks. Hmmmmm.......