Archive for July, 2009

Summer edition of CIO Connect magazine

Posted by mark on Tuesday, 21 July, 2009

The summer edition of CIO Connect magazine is out. Very pretty it is, too – with some lovely illustrations of wildlife, including butterflies and giraffes. There’s also some interesting written content, including exclusive interviews with new City University London CIO Andrew Abboud and Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at VocaLink.

Here’s the full list of featured CIOs and business leaders. As ever, thanks to all contributors for your time:

  • Andrew Abboud, CIO at City University London
  • Ben Verwayeen, CEO at Alcatel-Lucent
  • Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president, Gartner
  • David Hopkins, regional IT manager at Park Plaza Hotels
  • Peter Cochrane, former BT CTO and now chairman of Cohrane Associates
  • Ian Cohen, former CIO of Associated Newspapers and MD of The Simply Great Group
  • Prof. Leslie Willcocks, director of outsourcing at the London School of Economics
  • Mark Reece, director of development at the London Stock Exchange
  • Karl Deacon, CTO at Cap Gemini
  • Dan Solace, responsible for high performance computing at Thomson Reuters
  • Philip Buckley-Mellor, designer at BT Vision
  • Tom Kilroy, vice president at Intel
  • Paul Calleja, director of high performance computing at the University of Cambridge
  • Peter Cheese, managing partner for talent and organisation performance services at Accenture
  • Rob Rice, head of leadership at Atos Consulting UK
  • David Rigney, group operations director at Nationwide
  • Dominic Batchelor, senior associate at Ashurst LLP
  • Les Taylor, director for business development and information services at the Disposal Services Authority
  • Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at VocaLink
  • Chris White, firmer IT director at Ashurst LLP
  • Paul Woobey, CIO at the Office of National Statistics
  • Tim Mann, CIO at Skandia UK
  • Mykolas Rambus, head of IT and special projects, Forbes
  • Dave Williams, IT director at Confused.com
  • Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO at Webroot Software
  • Anne Moises, CIO at Scottish Government
  • Anne Weatherston, group CIO at Bank of Ireland
  • Diane Bryant, CIO at Intel
  • Andy Beale, technology director of enterprise operations at Guardian News & Media
  • Christine Ashton, group IM Ssrategy and technology director at Transport for London
  • Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO at EMC
  • Richard Page, international purchasing director at Compass Group
  • Karen Bridges, acting head of transformation development corporate business change at Birmingham City Council
  • Glyn Evans, corporate director business change at Birmingham City Council
  • Andrew Coulson, COO at Dimension Data
  • Tony Bates, COO and group CFO at Colt
  • Daryl Scales, UK finance director at Enterprise Rent-A-Car
  • Andy Ross, CITO at SHL
  • Zafar Chaudry, director of information management and technology at Liverpool Women’s NHS Trust
  • Spencer Mott, CISO at Electronic Arts
  • David Bason, IS director at Shoosmiths

The new rules of social networking

Posted by mark on Friday, 10 July, 2009

Social networking is great. You can use Facebook to see photos of people you lost touch with years ago, celebrating the birthday of someone you don’t actually know. You can use LinkedIn to hype yourself up as the latest, greatest ’social media guru’. And you can use Twitter to find out that loads of people got up this morning, ate some food, listened to a bit of music, were busy at work, went home, watched TV and went to bed.

But social networking is also a bit odd. I was watching the news on TV earlier and there was a lot of coverage of Peter Harvey, the teacher from Mansfield who has been charged with attempted murder. After I’d finished my fix of retro information gathering (news on the TV), I went all Web 2.0-tastic and did a search for the teacher on Facebook. And there was quite a bit of stuff, some of which surprised me – names, alleged actions, etc. You know, the kind of stuff the retro media aren’t mean to print in case of prejudicing a trial.

But all that stuff is fair game in the world of social networking. Isn’t it?