Welcoming myself back

The last few months I haven’t blogged much. I have been hugely busy, and Christmas fell in the middle, but there are three big reasons that I haven’t been able to post much here.

The first is that I am now working with matrix management training specialists, Global Integration half time – mainly online. A lot of what I’m doing is internal and based around the blog.If you’re interested in the company, it helps large., complex organizations become faster, more efficient, more pleasant places to work. You can find us on Twitter – and there’s some relaxed stuff on the Global Integration Flickr stream.

The second is that I have been without any decent broadband, following a move. What was supposed to be easy turned out to be quite hard.If I thought before that broadband has become an important utility, I am now more convinced than ever. Over the past three months without a decent connection, I have missed out on tickets for things, have halved my productivity, have been far less connected with colleagues, friends and family, and have been missing the ability to shop online. So I probably paid far more for Christmas than I needed to.

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IT Toolbox blog about The Difference Engine

Popped a post up on my IT Toolbox about The Difference Engine extending its deadline.

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/emerging-tech-and-trends/the-difference-engine-extends-its-deadline-40297

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The Difference Engine – deadline extended

Incubator/accelerator programme The Difference Engine has extended it’s deadline for applications, for various reasons, the most important being that it gives applicants worldwide longer to apply.

As Jon Bradford, the founder, explained, he’s had endless invites to talk at events that he can’t attend ahead of the closing deadline

So it makes sense to push things back, as he explained on The Difference Engine news blog.

Claire Thompson, freelance PR Consultant, Waves PR

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About the Difference Engine

Sharing the slides from the Talk on The Difference Engine given at Reading Geek Night last night:

Applications should be made via the website: http://thedifferenceengine.eu/apply/ by 23 July, 2010

Who funds it?

This times programme is funded and supported by a variety of organisations including One North East, Middlesborough and Sunderland City Councils.

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