Consultancy news from Netskills

Netskills Consultant Trainer Steve Boneham helped Information Services staff explore the use of social media to better understand and engage with their users at a recent event held in Birmingham.

An innovative new online language resource, capturing over 100 years of the Tyneside dialect, was launched yesterday at a Newcastle University public lecture.

Lisa Vincent and Jamie Stodgen have been praised for the online support they provided for the RSC Wales Online Summer Bytes conference.

Netskills has launched a survey to the find out more about the different roles, responsibilities and skills needed in external engagement.

New resources, written by JISC Netskills, have been published to help web managers across institutions make best use of their online resources.

As Green ICT becomes increasingly important for institutions across the world, Netskills is helping JISC and the educational community to investigate innovative solutions to saving energy, reducing costs and trying to find a more sustainable future for ICT.

Collaborating with project managers from JISC-funded projects, Netskills helped to put together a one-day event looking at how institutions could better handle issues arising from identity management.

An online self-evaluation tool, set to help universities and colleges identify development needs and point users towards relevant resources, was launched last Friday.

Dr Caroline Ingram has joined Netskills, becoming the newest member of the JISC Advance Business and Community Engagement (BCE) team.

Following their success, two Netskills-led Business and Community Engagement (BCE) projects are given the go ahead to carry on their work.