Category Archives: reflections
Town Hall Meeting
Interesting things are afoot in Renfrewshire. ALISS was invited along to take part in the yesterday’s Disability Network Day at the very grand Paisley Town Hall where there was some lively discussion, great participation and some creative thinking. The event … Continue reading
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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
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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
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On being Open
We like to think that we’re ‘Open’ – are we? Enough? In public we’ve been saying this for quite a while now: Our May 2010 ‘Blueprint’ Board Paper suggested an overall blueprint for an ALISS Service Framework, and identified necessary … Continue reading
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World Arthritis Day
Back in the early stages of the project when we were looking at the ups and downs of finding local support using the web, arthritis was one of the conditions that we focused on. It was difficult to find stuff … Continue reading
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ALISS and Service-design – a little history
We spent a good deal of our collective effort this spring on an ‘Open Innovation Process‘, at the heart of which has been service-design. So it seems sensible to reflect upon this a bit. One of the better-known factoids about … Continue reading
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More interim thoughts on ALISS and her ICT architecture development
I mentioned that pitching ALISS to potential bidders was proving to be a useful discipline (something that I’d seen suggested a little while ago), and it has already prompted a number of ‘reflections’. I thought I’d list the ones that … Continue reading
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Camping – even more…!
After a pleasant walk, went more or less straight along to the SI Camp in Glasgow, for some participant-observation – as well as because of the sheer interestingness of the whole process & concept. We all (60-70 of us) gathered … Continue reading
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The 'Long' in Long-Term Conditions
Have we tended to think over much about the initial(?) search, following diagnosis? What happens afterwards, when services need adjusting, perhaps when the person with an LTC deteriorates, and another complication arises? Where does what we’re thinking about shade over … Continue reading
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Tectonic plates shifting in the background
on the open web, commentators have, for some while now, been pointing out a paradigm shift away from the ‘web as building’, where users go to cathedrals (a.k.a. portals) which are massively built and designed to match (think Chartres, York … Continue reading
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