One of my recent projects with Wolfstar has just launched. Sam Oakley and I have developed a Drupal based social media newsroom (SMNR) for Philips.

We will be creating SMNR's for the other countries in Scandinavia over the next few months. When the dust has settled, I will publish a technical write up of how we did it and the design decisions we made.

For the last month I have been experimenting with a remote folder synchronisation service called Dropbox to help me with my increasingly nomadic working life. I work for a charity for some of my week and for a PR company for the rest of my time, doing both across a number of offices and home. This provides me with some conundrums when moving my work as digital files, not least of which is that I run OS X at home and Windows XP almost everywhere else.  read more »

Had a little chortle to myself today, sifting through my latest e-mails spotted one from Business Link entitled “Five tips for enhanced Business efficiency”, a must read given that Business Link are there to help businesses grow and prosper.  read more »

If you have been following my Twitter feed during the last month, you might have noticed that I have been mentioning the public relations consultancy Wolfstar on a regularly basis. Co-founded by a long time friend, Stuart Bruce, Wolfstar specialises in using social media and word of mouth techniques for the benefit of it's clients.  read more »

This is a brief test post. I have just install the ScribeFire plug in to the wonderful version 3 of Firefox. The objective is to make blogging more straight forward. I can now blog from within my browser, without having to navigate my way through the 'Create Content' interface of Drupal.

A little late, but still worth a comment: I attended the first meeting of the Drupal for NGOs group organised by Rob Purdie and graciously hosted by Amnesty International. This was the first Drupal user group and indeed first techie user group of any sort that I have attended. I am not sure why I have waited so long, as it was a brilliant experience. There where fifty or so attendees, including several who' phoned in' from as far as New York.  read more »

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore

Sometimes, you can only start a new project by, well, actually starting it. Welcome to Thought Processes, a blog long in the planning and until now, short in the execution. We will focus on issues of technology and the development for small and medium sized organisations.  read more »

Thought Processes is the joint venture of Rae Lonsdale and Tim Bailey, that offers strategic consultancy services around web based technologies to small and medium sized businesses.

Rae is a self described 'kitchen table' entrepreneur, who founded an award winning technology company before the last internet bubble and came out the other side still with the shirt on her back.  read more »