Archive for the 'events' Category
Isle of Man BCS: Windows 2008 - A feature overview
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 8th May, 2008
Sherrilynne’s beaten me to getting this online, but here’s the final speaking event for from this year’s BCS calendar:
Topic: Microsoft Vista Windows Server 2008 - A Feature Overview
Speaker: Huw Turvey
Venue: The Claremont Hotel, Douglas
Date: Tuesday 13th May 2008
Time: AGM at 18:00 - Talk starts at 18:30
Windows Server 2008 is the [...]
BCS Talk: Field Service Management Technologies - A case study
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 16th Apr, 2008
The Isle of Man Section of the BCS is holding a talk tomorrow on Field Service Management. Here’s the blurb:
Field Service Management, the discipline of deploying service engineers and customer service representatives most effectively to resolve problems encountered in the field, is one of the least understood and exploited business disciplines. Despite the deep penetration [...]
Professor Jim Norton’s Talk
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 21st Feb, 2008
Unfortunately I didn’t manage to get to the BCS talk yesterday, which had Professor Jim Norton talking about Responsibilities of Directors and Managers in ICT Enabled Business Change, but I found that you can download the slides from Professor Norton’s website here. Just click on Online Documentation 2008 and find the presentation there. Enjoy the [...]
BCS Talk Tonight
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 20th Feb, 2008
Just a reminder if you’re in the Isle of Man and working in an organisation effecting change, there’s a talk tonight organised by the BCS, IOD and CMI about the responsibilities organisations face when making business changes. It’s at 18:00 at the Sefton and the speaker is Professor Jim Norton.
So get your heads out of [...]
BCS Talk: Responsibilities That Exist When Making Business Changes
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 12th Feb, 2008
If you’re based in the Isle of Man, the local chapter of the BCS have teamed up with the IOD and the CMI to bring a highly respected speaker to the Isle of Man to give a talk about the responsibilities organisations face when affecting business change. It’s at the Sefton on the 20th of [...]
Win an iPod Touch (courtesy of Marketing Pilgrim)
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 12th Feb, 2008
News just in! Actually it’s fresh off the press and didn’t manage to make yesterday’s Honeypost .. but it was too good to sit on till the next one so here goes.
Andy Beal, down at Marketing Pilgrim is running a competition giving away an iPod Touch (I so want one of these!) All you have [...]
eGaming a view to the Future
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 9th Oct, 2007
The Isle of Man is working hard to be an ideal jurisdiction for hosting eGaming companies. In light of this, the Isle of Man BCS have organised a discussion forum about eGaming how people expect this to evolve in the future. Here’s the blurb:
eGaming - A view on the future
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Central Promenade, Douglas [...]
eGaming in the Isle of Man
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 3rd Oct, 2007
I’m working on organising the next event for the Isle of Man BCS (I’m on the committee and responsible for sorting out the calendar). The next event is going to be a panel discussion about eGaming, so I thought I’d have a hunt around the web to read up about different eGaming sites on the [...]
Isle of Man Observatory Visit
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 26th Jan, 2007
I went on a visit of the Astronomical Observatory here in the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man Astronomical Society have an observatory out near Foxdale and they organised a visit for the Douglas Round Table to go and take a look.
We had a talk about the history of the observatory and the astronomical [...]
BCS Event: Virtualiation
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 25th Jan, 2007
I attended a great event yesterday organised by the Isle of Man Chapter of the BCS. The topic was Virtualisation and the speaker, Rob, Lovell, is one of the directors of SWSoft, a company with a virtualisation product called Virtuozzo. I didn’t realise till a few minutes ago that SWSoft are also the company that [...]
Communicating the Value of IT
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 10th Nov, 2006
The Isle of Man Chapter of the BCS will be organising a talk later on this month called “Communicating the Value of IT”, presented by Sherrilynne Starkie, Managing Partner of Strive PR. Here is the snopsis of the event:
What your IT department’s reputation? Are you seen as problem solvers, as barriers to progress or do [...]
