Let’s play some poker
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 12th May, 2008
My previous post was about the Space industry in the Isle of Man, this one is about the eGaming industry. I posted about it here some months ago, and I recently found out that one of the officials here on the Island used to work for an online gamine site called Bet365; so I thought [...]
The poetry of correct positioning
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 12th May, 2008
Do you ever look at an initiative that a group or company have taken and think to yourself, “Wow, that makes sense”. I got that feeling list week, while looking at a press release here in the Isle of Man. You see, the Isle of Man is trying to promote itself in the Space arena. [...]
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 [...]
Isle of Man eBusiness News
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 2nd May, 2008
Just came across a video created by the Isle of Man eBusiness Division which showcases some of the business benefits of operating from the Isle of Man. It’s a longish video (around 15 minutes), but quite interesting both for people who operate from the Isle of Man and also for interested parties considering the move.
Isle [...]
More Sproutbuilder fun - IoM demo
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 29th Apr, 2008
I’ve been playing with Sproutbuilder so more and needed a theme to play with, so I’ve created a Sprout to advertise the Isle of Man:
Like it ?
Long Tale TV - MEA Inquest
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 18th Apr, 2008
Another great episode on Long Tale TV, the Isle of Man’s only TV station. This one concerns some investigative reporting into the recent MEA overspend. Things are not always what they seem …
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 [...]
BCS (Isle of Man) talk on China and India
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 13th Jan, 2008
The BCS Isle of Man has invited Charles Chang to speak next week’s meeting. Charles will analyse the politics, economics, social change and technology in China and India and examine the implications these have for enterprises and for governments at the BCS Isle of Man’s first event of the year taking place at 18.00 on [...]
Isle of Man Government Online Services
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 28th Nov, 2007
Andy and I gave a talk last night to the local chapter of the BCS about the work we’re doing to provide businesses and citizens in the Isle of Man with a set of Online Services to facilitate interaction with Government. We had a great time talking about what we do and had quite a [...]
Isle of Man Webcams
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 31st May, 2007
There has been a rush of interest in webcams around the Isle of Man because of this TT Centenary, and I was getting bored of rotating through a number of different pages to see what’s going on. So I put together a page with the top 6 cameras around the Island which refreshes on a [...]
Putting the Isle of Man on the map
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 28th May, 2007
Came across a post today on Ali’s Blog entitled: .IM taking over the IM world. It’s nice hearing about something relevant to the Isle of Man from someone else’s blog. The Island is already famous for the TT racing that’s taking place at the moment, nice to see it making it in the virtual world [...]
Isle of Man Online Services - Here comes tax
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 13th Apr, 2007
The project I’m working for here in the Isle of Man has moved forward to a new phase and we are getting ready to roll our services for businesses to do online tax filings (see Press Release). It’s a culmination of quite a few activities across government, including providing the infrastructure to enable this and [...]
Flights out of the IOM
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 30th Jan, 2007
I’ve justed booked my flight for a trip to the UK next month. It seems like connections to London seem to be more expensive this year, and the choice of airlines flying to the Isle of Man gets smaller and smaller. BA Connect still fly to the Island (we’ll see if they still will after [...]
