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new year new position.(Euan Semple left British Broadcasting Corp.)(Neil Infield joined British Library)(Andy Powell joined Eduserv Foundation)
Byline: Bobby Pickering
movers and shakers
New year, new position
IWR rounds up recent career shifts for information professionals. If you've had a change of job recently, send details to moversandshakers@iwr.co.uk
n With the IWR Information Professional of the Year 2005 Award safely tucked under his belt, Euan Semple (pictured) will be leaving the BBC this month to embark on a career in consultancy. Semple, who created and sustained the BBC's innovative DigiLabs, was responsible for introducing a range of social computing applications and services to aid employee communication -- everything from bulletin boards to wikis and blogs. His departure is part of a raft of swingeing cutbacks being implemented by director-general Mark Thompson, who is looking to make annual savings of [pounds sterling]355m by 2008. Job losses have been estimated at between 19% and 40%.
n After last year's cutbacks and restructuring at Hermes Pensions Management, former business information services boss Neil Infield has resurfaced at the British Library. Infield is managing the BL's Business and IP Centre as it prepares for a big relaunch next month with updated facilities for the SME market. Neil is a former winner of ...
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- Magazine article from: Information World Review November 16, 2005 700+ words
Euan Semple's eclectic background has brought him into intimate contact with people...impossible to imagine a business where relationships don't matter." Euan Semple became the BBC's head of knowledge management following his experience...
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- Magazine article from: Information World Review November 7, 2005 700+ words
...Letters 20 Profile Inside the OUP 23 Five-year plans Strategy documents 26 A social man Conversations with the BBC's Euan Semple 31 Group test Blogging tools 35 Sector update News and reference 39 Resources LexisNexis Butterworths, New Walford, Connotea...
- Movers and shakers - New year, new position. IWR rounds up recent career shifts...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review February 22, 2006 700+ words
...Professional of the Year 2005 Award safely tucked under his belt, Euan Semple (pictured) will be leaving the BBC this month to embark...cultural organisations, and is taking up a new post at Eduserv Foundation as head of development. He will be setting up an internal...
- Leeds Leading The Way In Public Sector Innovation.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 28, 2007 700+ words
...to evolve and improve ourselves." Euan Semple, former Head of Knowledge Management...heartened by the comments of Prof Wolff and Euan Semple that Leeds is heading in the right direction...The attached image shows, L-R: Euan Semple; Ian Jones, Senior Consultant at Innovation...
- Leading international thinkers to discuss the application of Web 2.0 at Online...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire October 12, 2007 700+ words
...esteemed leaders in this field such as Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, Euan Semple, and Roo Reynolds. On the search front, interacting with...first day, track one examines "The Challenges of 2.0". Euan Semple, Independent Advisor on social computing for business will...
- feedback.(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review chillingworth, mark July 9, 2007 700+ words
...technology" (IWR blog, June) but that someone tried to encapsulate something so broad and diverse in a single phrase. Euan Semple a[bar] and #2 I agree with Euan. As a law librarian who wasn't able to make it to the CIG event, my main concern is...
- It's good to be scared.(Web 2.0)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Chillingworth, Mark July 9, 2007 700+ words
...full complexity of the Web 2.0 plot. I left the conference feeling that almost everyone, apart from my co-panellist Euan Semple and IWR's own David Tebbutt, was a little shaky on some areas of Web 2.0. I too feel out of touch with RSS and Facebook...
- Walt Mossberg, Bill Taylor to Host BIF-3 Collaborative Innovation...
- Newspaper article from: Wireless News August 26, 2007 700+ words
...37signals founder Jason Fried; Harvard Business School's Clay Christensen; former head of Knowledge Management for the BBC Euan Semple; former IBM VP for Technical Strategy and Innovation Irving Wladawsky-Berger; and information architect and author Richard...
- Video and Photo: Walt Mossberg, Bill Taylor to Host BIF-3 Collaborative...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 21, 2007 700+ words
...37signals founder Jason Fried; Harvard Business School's Clay Christensen; former head of Knowledge Management for the BBC Euan Semple; former IBM VP for Technical Strategy and Innovation Irving Wladawsky-Berger; and information architect and author Richard...
- Opinion - Blogs and wikis could blow the gaffe on you. You need to educate...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review December 6, 2005 700+ words
...that show who is communicating with whom. Of course, company secrets can be protected from competitors but, as the BBC's Euan Semple says: "Any information in these systems is just a copy and paste away." It is very tempting to set up new media systems...
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