I was at a talk at the RSA last night for a sneak preview of a new film Us Now about the potential power of ordinary people using web 2.0 tools to change everything from the way government works to the ownership of football clubs. To quote internet guru Clay Shirky change happens not when [...]
Stuart Glendinning Hall
Covering pretty much everything, and social networking.
ICAEW
IT Counts open to the public
The ICAEW’s IT Counts website is now open to the public. It’s already won a Web 2.0 Strategies award, and is shortlisted for the 2008 Accountacy Age Awards. Be interesting to see what kind of demographic visitor profile it attracts with its focus on accountancy, IT and business with topics ranging from better use of MS Excel (did [...]
IBM to launch social networking center
I see IBM are working with Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters’ healthcare arm on a new web 2.0 software center in the US. Nice, I used to work with Thomson Reuters’ healthcare arm in the UK (with the affable Jeremy Snelling) and talked with them on improving their data feed for Medicexchange.com. Now I’m working [...]
Office 2.0 Conference ION case study
“Can organizations build web communities with predictable success? This workshop calls on our experiences of building ion (the institute online network) — the award winning collection of web based communities for the ICAEW member network — as well as other communities powered by WordFrame, and the available research material. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of [...]
Breaking the ice on the Dixie Queen
Have a lovely evening on the Dixie Queen, smoking a nice Nicaraguan cigar.
Helping me, helping you with tax
HMRC website fault might result in unnecessary tax worries
18 July 2008
“The ICAEW warns people to take care sending their second payment of tax owed to the HMRC for the 2006/2007 tax year if they have already filed their 2007/2008 self-assessment tax return.”
And from me, on a smaller scale:
1. The employer helpline number times incorrectly states [...]