Explore how corporate teams can use Flipboard to keep up with company news, share industry articles with colleagues or showcase your company to those who aren’t familiar with what you do.
Read more and find out how here: http://inside.flipboard.com/2013/10/01/flipboard-for-corporate-teams/
Windows 8.1 has been released. See a summary here from pocket-lint.com. It’s not a massive overhaul, but it is designed to fix some of the many problems reported by users of Windows. It’s a free upgrade to all existing Windows 8 users, and will come pre-installed on new machines after the 17th October.
Very interesting article from The Baffler, by Ann Friedman, discussing the true value of a LinkedIn profile.
Ann’s opinions do not represent nor necessarily reflect DirectionForward’s. We post this to stimulate discussion.
Read the artcile here: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/all_linkedin_with_nowhere_to_go.
An interesting image of London’s future skyline, showing all the skyscrapers that are currently under construction completed. Looks like the Shard won’t be the tallest for long…
Image by Hayes Davidson.
Here’s an interesting tech solution in a surprising place. This is reasonably topical, as it’s something that’s been in the traditional media quite a lot recently:
In particular, we’re going to look at an online resource for what is shaping up to be one of the most important excavation sites in north-western Europe, the Walbrook Discovery Programme.
For those of you that aren’t aware, the Walbrook site is currently being excavated just to the north of Cannon Street station in the square mile (London, UK). They are about 8-10 metres down below ground level and have been discovering all kinds of amazing things underneath our feet. This, however, is not the news. Archaeological works take place every day in the city of London, Greater London, and indeed across the entirety of the UK. What makes this site so interesting, is its use of social media and in particular a WordPress blog to keep the public informed.
Very rarely do you see tech being used to such an end-user friendly degree within heritage, and the WDP does a very good job of keeping the tone light, but the content interesting. There are videos about how to clean, record and then excavate a Roman floor (with quite an interesting sound track), and articles about different types of artefacts; about different structures; about all kinds of interesting pieces of archaeology.
I’ve never seen information presented so well in an ongoing excavation, and think this is a great model for other archaeological companies, and possibly even academic departments to consider. And it just goes to show, that tech solutions aren’t just limited to 21st century problems!
Today is the 20 year anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, and the memorial takes place this afternoon at St Martin-in-the-Fields. To mark this 20 year annoversary, the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust is holding a series of events to celebrate and mark Stephens’s life and legacy – SL20 – including the SL20 Live Concert, a legacy ball and criminal justice lecture. For more details see their website.
We are working on a brand new website. We’ll be finished soon. All our services are operating as normal, including backup and web hosting and support systems. But just as an FYI, there may be a few pages on our site that don’t look quite right or are missing information – this will be corrected as the site is completed.