Last week myself and Paddy Callaghan (our Senior Web Developer) headed to Hull for the latest NE Regional Web Meeting.  These were spawned a number of years ago now following one of the IWMW meetings (can’t remember where it was – they are all beginning to blur into one!).  Various regional meetings were established and the NE region has continued to meet ever since. Alison Smyth from Hull University Business School was kind enough to host us and the sun shone on a really rather lovely campus. It was good to see colleagues from across the north east (ish!) including University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, Northumbria, York, York St John, Leeds (and possibly some others) and have a day of sharing, learning, listening and deliberating around some current hot web topics. The topics for discussion were: JISC course information management/XCRI Key information sets Mobile approaches – responsive design, native apps etc....

The issue of cookies and the law has arisen again with the ICO publishing some guidelines on  the rules on use of cookies and similar technologies just yesterday – http://t.co/kvNH1QME.  The report is ready and waiting to be read in detail but I thought I’d share with you the process that...