This morning started with the ring of bells to communicate the start
of the Olympic Games. Communications have also been the focus of our work this week. We now have the new website templates which I
will populate over the Summer so we can re-launch the website in the new
academic year. We will have lots of new
features including more video content, better layout and ease of use and we
can’t wait to share it with you all.
This week we also met with representatives from across the faculties to
help us with our new magazine which we hope to publish in the Autumn. We have lots of good ideas and interesting
material to put in. We are working on
content at the moment and will be pulling together case studies of work that
has taken place within Cabot over the last year.
We also have a new webcam and microphone, courtesy of JISC, for doing more Skype calling
and videoconferencing. We are keen to
embrace technology to cut down on national and international travel for
meetings. It is also useful to use
online applications for phone calls so that we can share slides, documents and
other information with our colleagues, which better enhances the way we work.
It was also interesting to meet Dan Schnurr of Blom this week, who has
a mutual interest in mapping and remote sensing.