Cybercrime and web awareness
The Government must be more vigorous in its approach to cyber security, says the Defence Committee in a report published on 9 January. Interviewed on… Read More »Cybercrime and web awareness
Ian Watson
Head of Knowledge Media at IRISS. Particularly interested in social media and how we can get better access to it in the workplace.
Council blocks Google mail
Five million businesses use Google Apps and an estimated 425 million individuals actively use Gmail, a free email service. We at IRISS use Google Apps for our email,… Read More »Council blocks Google mail
UK Digital Strategy – digital by default?
This month the UK cabinet office published its Government Digital Strategy, which restates the objective that government should be ‘digital by default’. Andrea Di Maio… Read More »UK Digital Strategy – digital by default?
Mindreel – a great mental health video resource (blocked!)
Mindreel is a database of over 100 films submitted the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival over the last six years. SMAFF is… Read More »Mindreel – a great mental health video resource (blocked!)
Digital inclusion? Great idea. Can we have it in the workplace too?
People who can seek new information, make sense of it, and share it with their colleagues, will be an asset to any work team. However,… Read More »Digital inclusion? Great idea. Can we have it in the workplace too?
Institutional repositories and access to research
In her review of academic publishing (discussed in this Just Do It blog post), Dame Janet Finch considered the role of institutional repositories: databases containing reports… Read More »Institutional repositories and access to research
High Court clarifies status of a tweet
A recent High Court judgement didn’t seem to get much attention. Paul Chambers, who had been found guilty of sending a menacing tweet in which… Read More »High Court clarifies status of a tweet
Open access to research
‘what we propose implies cultural change: a fundamental shift in how research is published and disseminated’ – Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings… Read More »Open access to research
Social media in children’s services
The first event here in Toronto was a PART (Practice and Research Together) Council meeting. The Council is made up of around 12 Executive Directors of various… Read More »Social media in children’s services
Social media in Canada
Following IRISS’s participation in an international workshop on evidence-informed practice in Ireland last April, I was invited to spend a couple of weeks working with… Read More »Social media in Canada