Enthusiastic cyber-citizen Neill Pawsey is happy to have meetings, study, chat and read the paper online. The only thing that holds him back is his bandwidth
What’s your most played MP3?
At the moment, I’m listening a lot to Lessons to be Learned by Gabriella Cilmi.
Do you read books and articles online?
I am about to embark on a daunting, four-year engineering research doctorate at Loughborough university, so I do a lot of research online. When it comes to books, it tends to be popular science – I’m not a great fiction reader.
Do you use any social networks?
I am a fully signed-up advocate of social networking. I started to use MySpace, but Facebook now features more often – it’s a great way to locate long-lost friends. I also have a LinkedIn profile, and am interested in how the forthcoming Be2Camp event in London is being organised through a website called Ning (ning.com).
What’s your favourite bookmark?
I have a whole raft of favourites – mainly sites related to the construction sector and to mobile IT. The COMIT website (comitproject.org.uk) features highly and, perhaps reflecting my parents’ newspaper reading habits, I tend to use The Daily Telegraph website (telegraph.co.uk) quite a bit – it has some good IT pages. I follow and play cricket a lot, so the sports section of the BBC website (bbc.co.uk) is also a big favourite, as is Cricinfo (cricinfo.com).
What have you bought online recently?
I regularly buy CDs and books from Amazon, and I use eBay – the last thing I bought was a second-hand towbar kit for my car.
Your favourite online meeting place?
I tend to use whatever proprietary meeting tools are specified by meeting colleagues, like GoToMeeting.co.uk. I would like to use Skype, but my home broadband connection isn’t great, though I will be upgrading the office link shortly. I’m also fascinated with the idea of having meetings in Second Life.
What’s in your digital holster?
I used to use a PDA equipped with Windows Mobile, but I recently got a BlackBerry, which I am exploring, but haven’t quite reached the “CrackBerry” stage yet!
Email or snail mail?
Email, but I am also interested in other messaging services. We might try using Twitter to communicate from the COMIT website, for example.
Postscript
Neill Pawsey is European project manager at industry technology group FIATECH, and programme manager at COMIT. He is speaking at the B2Camp event next month – be2camp.ning.com
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