Day trip to London, part the one

Staff development doesn't happen often to me, but when it does, it comes like buses, in groups. Wednesday 14th March saw me on Fareham station in time for the 0619 train to London for a meeting with the web team at CILIP, especially, Patricia McHugo, @ 0900hrs. After a quick breakfast in MacDonalds, I was ready to receive the wonderful training which lasted about 2½ hours. Patricia took me through the web editors forum on CILIP communities, demonstrated the blog space from the same service, and we went to town on the content management server used to power CILIP and the Sub Branch of HIOW. A big thank you to Patricia from myself and the Committee of HIOW for the time given; I hope we can do justice to the web facilities allowed to us. After the Committee meeting this evening, I now have a seven point action plan for my communications role, some of which relate to the website and ideas for additional pages as we expand our services under the possible banner of "HIOW - local CILIP in action" (my idea, I forgot to mention this in my report, well it was long enough). I also found out that CILIP advisors also check this blog as one saw it mentioned in the presentation from Karen Blakeman. Hampshire seems to have a reputation that proceeds them, one of action.