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21 July 2011
Just completed a very successful media roundtable on PC power management. On the back of a Green IT survey of 122 organisations, the session was hosted by our client Verismic Software and chaired by Jean Ritchie, former service director at the University of Edinburgh Data Compute Facility. It was a very lively debate with lots of dicussion around cloud computing, the legal implications of organisatons failing to recognise their responsibility to reduce carbon emissions (thanks to Mark Bailey, Speechly Bircham LLP for your valued input to session on this area in particular!!) Chris Bullock, CEO from S3 Consulting and representing the Climate Savers Computing Initiative had some great thoughts on how changing individual cultural attitudes within the workplace is am important as the technology itself, Pete Foster from Green IT Review agreed. And of course a media roundtable would not be complete without the media! So, thanks to Peter Judge, eWeek Europe, and Steve Evans from CBR for your contribution. Look forward to reading the resulting coverage.
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14 July 2011
Tonya Stewart is the new deputy editor at British Journal of Healthcare Computing
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7 July 2011
En route to a meeting with UkTechMarketView and Updata - to discuss, amongst other things, the demise and rise of the Public Services Network and Academies. Interesting discussion and contentious views ahead no doubt!
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29 June 2011
Public Services Network continues to gain momentum. Cambridgeshire PSN has signed a deal with Virgin Business Media - http://goo.gl/7WP6n PSN must be one of the greatest IT efficiency projects to take place in local government over the next few years - what do you think?
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28 June 2011
Ignorance, Cloud and The Daily Mail. I just love this article from publictechnology.net. Just how narrow minded is our main stream media - total sensationalism, total ignorance and totally inaccurate! Please, someone have a chat....check it out http://goo.gl/fQeh8
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27 June 2011
Public Services Network brochure drafted, designed and delivered; BDUK brochure drafted, designed and delivered; Business Broadband brochure drafted, designed and delivered...all in a matter of days - damn we are good!
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22 June 2011
Interview with @garfage (Gary Flood, publictechnology.net) on featuresexec.com: http://goo.gl/udrFj
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17 June 2011
I am rather late sharing this news but journalist Gary Flood is now full-time editor of www.publictechnology.net (as opposed to freelance editor). He has made the payroll! I am really pleased. The news site has just got better and better recently with Gary's writing. Onwards and upwards with Mr Flood at the helm.
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15 June 2011
Very interesting readon publictechnology.net this morning goo.gl/TD5lc. Government cost savings mainly due to cuts, not process change....mmm, I cannot help but think this is a missed opportunity. What do you think?
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13 June 2011
We've got some pretty interesting results coming back from our profile audit of ICT suppliers to public sector. Looking forward to sharing the results next month.
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24 May 2011
Congratutaltions to our client, Verismic Software, for picking up 'One to watch product' in the recent Green IT Awards. A great product and a great company. Click here to read the full award news announcement.
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20 May 2011
South Lanarkshire Council cuts energy costs by £40,000 with power management - press coverage on ComputerWorldUK following an interview with South Lanarkshire earlier this morning.
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16 May 2011
Pitching just about done. Interviews all complete - for now. Updata and North Staffordshire NHS Trust network project published on Computing, ComputerWorldUK, eHealthInsider and Publictechnology.net. Couple more press articles due at month end.
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16 May 2011
eWeek says Socitm appoints Glyn Evans as new president
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13 May 2011
David Williams now writing technology stories at Health Service Journal (replacing Dave West, who has a new focus area). Shanna Crispin now writing at eHealth Insider replacing Sarah Bruce.
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9 May 2011
Pitching a Community of Interest Network (COIN) project between Updata and North Staffs NHS Trust
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9 May 2011
We've just been informed that journalist Sarah Bruce has left eHealth Insider ...possibly to go traveling (will confirm that later).
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20 April 2011
Just completing the arrangements for a healthcare 'knowledge sharing' lunch meeting between two clients - Updata and Simpl - and advisory panel member, Ian Herbert.
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19 April 2011
There are so many success stories of health providers breaking away from centrally mandated IT programmes. Check out the BBC report from France, the UK is doing this too, but alas good news rarely makes the headlines in health IT! Click here: http://goo.gl/ugQgd
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18 April 2011
Who says the IT industry has no humour? Computer Reseller News sees the lighter side of OCF's recent project at the University of Durham. Click here for the latest press coverage and here for the full news announcement
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11 April 2011
Pitching a new story regarding OCF's server cluster project with the University of Birmingham
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6 April 2011
Great interview yesterday evening with www.ComputerWorldUK.com with Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council discussing their ambitious PSN plans and the work they are doing with Updata. Check back later for the coverage
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5 April 2011
Press coverage from the second of yesterday's media interviews with Walsall MBC is now online
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4 April 2011
...two further media interviews complete today relating to Updata's project with Walsall MBC - press coverage on Computing already.
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4 April 2011
We have been working hard all day pitching a story relating to Updata's network project with Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council - press coverage so far on Computer Weekly and Guardian Government Computing.
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29 March 2011
Latest newsletter is available now - see Mantis PRofile link on the homepage. You can sign up to recieve it via email if you don't already. It provides a full roundup of public sector ICT contract news, surveys, reports, government policy, etc. from the previous month (March in this case). Hope it useful.
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29 March 2011
Gary Flood tells us that Computer Weekly and Microscope have both been sold to TechTarget (ending 40 years with Reed). Computer Weekly will publish online only from April.
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29 March 2011
Just working on a press release which is a great example of a Public Sector Network. Check out news section in the coming weeks for the press coverage...it should be good!
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28 March 2011
Must be our lucky day, publictechnology.net has also published our white paper, written by advisory panel member Ian Herbert, covering implications of the Government’s White Paper ‘Equity and excellence - Liberating the NHS’ Read
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28 March 2011
Our latest white paper has been published by Computer Weekly. Written by panel member, Ian Herbert it covers informatics implications of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's new whitepaper: "Equality and excellence, liberating the NHS. Read
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28 March 2011
Dr Lydia Heck, Senior Computer Manager, Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University has just agreed to become a guest author on the OCF high performance computing blog - great news!
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28 March 2011
Just pulling together our latest public sector ICT newsletter - it will be ready in a day or so.
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11 January 2011
Great to see that Simon Burns, health minister and Conservative MP, is following the advice given by Mantis Advisory panel member, Dr Glyn Hayes, set out in the Hayes review of NPfIT. Essentially, refine NPfIT and not disband it entirely. Click here for full story. Click here for the original review news story from 2009.
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11 January 2011
We are very pleased to announce that Robin Noble, former head of ICT at Royal Borough of Kingston Council has joined the Mantis Advisory Panel. Working alongside our existing healtcare and higher education experts, Robin is available to provide consultancy and advice to any ICT supplier to local government. His expertise ranges from business transformation, customer service management, IT strategies, technology roadmaps, tender & bid processes, CRM solutions, infrastructure project delivery, customer web portals, IT upgrades & systems migration, and delivering added business value through the adoption of new technology. Read his bio here
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11 January 2011
We'll be attending BETT show on Friday - for our sins! I read on Joe Wilcox's blog this morning (Joe is BETT's content director) his own description of the show. Whilst slightly self-congratulatory (as you would expect) he is absolutely right...
"BETT has built its reputation over the past 26 years to become the world’s largest technology in education show. Each year visitors flock to see the latest and greatest in technology for the classroom."
This really is one of the last shows in the calendar where you can guarantee a packed floor, no walking space, no breathing space... it honestly never ceases to amaze me! We’ll report back on Friday and let you know what it is like.
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11 January 2011
Our latest Mantis PRofile newsletter is now available online. Issue 10 (December) is the last newsletter of 2010 and includes a roundup of 8 contract wins, 2 eco-IT news stories, 4 policy updates, 3 reports, 3 new events and 3 movers & shakers. Read.
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10 November 2010
Just back from EHI Live 2010. We only attended day two (Tuesday 9th). It wasn't busy on the floor, but the seminar sessions were pretty busy. I'm told there were around 20 people in the 12:00-13:00 big picture seminar, just to give you an idea of numbers. We also spoke to a few exhibitors who said Monday was pretty quiet.
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8 November 2010
Andrew Haw, CIO of private healthcare provider Circle (and customer of our client Simpl) will be sitting on the EHI Live 'Big Picture' panel tomorrow from 12:00-13:00. The panel will be discussing the big issues in healthcare today. Download the full conference programme
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