Category Archives: issues
Everything’s in ‘moderation’
Search is perhaps one of the most magical-seeming things about using the web – the power at your fingertips (no wand required), the speed of response (faster than a speeding bullet, surely?), the amazing diversity of information that you can … Continue reading
Posted in aliss engine, co-creation, issues, Literacy, reflections
Comments Off
health assets, self-management, and the sustainability of institutional information assurance approaches
A long time go (in the mid-90′s), when the NHS web presence was in its infancy, someone in Quarry House proposed a central committee to vet each and every web page before it was published. The suggestion was entertained seriously … Continue reading
Posted in co-creation, issues, reflections, Self Management
Comments Off
We're Back…
This is just to apologise for the hiatus since last November. Not that we haven’t been busy with the project – it feels like quite the reverse. But the blog got into a tailspin about being closed access, not being … Continue reading
Posted in issues
Comments Off
The social experience of searching for, finding and using resources – keeping up to date with what you've found
In any project, questions about scope keep on surfacing. I know full well how easy it is for the thing to expand (until in the proverbial project balloon, you are faced with rising ground (a deadline that is inescapable) and … Continue reading
Are we just catering for the Worried Well??
It’s easy to set all this stuff out in terms of the web (just like the helpful people Andy encountered whose stock response was to suggest that he check Google) and lose sight of both people’s Real-Life networks of partners, … Continue reading
Posted in issues, maybe, reflections
Comments Off
The perils of being a universal service:
In my experience the NHS-classic approach to implementation tends to talk in terms of ‘rollout’, national implementation to planned targets, etc. etc. OK, so everyone knows it’s really more complicated than that – but, you catch my drift? Meanwhile, anyone … Continue reading
Posted in issues, reflections
Comments Off
Copyright, and thinking about business models:
Some years ago, the use of web pages which were split up into ‘frames’ were fashionable. These allowed publishers to draw in extra material like adverts alongside their own content. When other publishers began to link to the content alone, … Continue reading
Posted in issues
Comments Off
