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  1. Slides and other materials from the Higher Education Briefing 2009 today http://tinyurl.com/yermmcx #mshe09
  2. @grahamwilmott Find @RayFleming in the next break to get a wireless logon for #mshe09
  3. Lots of Q's for Lynne Tucker focus on procurement practice around A contract - SLA's, future pricing etc #mshe09
  4. Big shift from "manage IT" to "manage IT contracts" at KCL #mshe09 [Presumably big skill shift for existing staff?]
  5. In house focus on value-added eg Identity management, data and information management #mshe09
  6. Decisions therefore: Buy where appropriate, rather than build. Out-host infrastructure where appropriate and plan for costs #mshe09
  7. Lynne: Starting from almost zero IT base - keeping services "propped up" - Datacentre with 15 power failures in 2 years
  8. #mshe09 "The move from Build to Buy" - multi-sourcing instead of doing IT all themselves, across 6 London campuses & lots of mobile staff
  9. Lynn Tucker, CTO of King's College London next up at #mshe09
  10. @dominicwatts claims the first soundbite of the day with "Clicks and Mortar Universities" #mshe09
  11. Universities likely to see Mergers and Acquisitions in next 4 years. Private education is fastest growing part of Edu @dominicwatts #mshe09
  12. @dominicwatts talks about top things on VCs minds - Finances, Election, Competition, Economic Development, Research and M&A #mshe09
  13. Presenters & PowerPoint ready. Words ready. Just need coffee before our Microsoft HE Briefing 2009 #mshe09 gets started
  14. Mapping moves on: new Bing maps beta http://www.bing.com/maps/explore Not just maps, but pictures, photosynths. All on one page
  15. New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/yletahw - The Cambridge and Oxford College IT conference - keynote details
  16. Finalising speakers for MS Higher Education Briefing 2009 in London 10 Dec - SharePointLMS now confirmed - http://is.gd/51Opy
  17. Scaling up Innovation - an interactive website tool http://short.to/xjhq
  18. Office 2010 Public Beta now available http://is.gd/4YkqB along with more details of the Office Web Apps
  19. Microsoft Higher Education Briefing 2009 - 10th Dec - London http://tinyurl.com/ybco3l4 (Perhaps there is a free lunch after all?)
  20. @jonoble Hi Jonathan - quick Q - debate rages in the office about whether "faculty" is used in UK or not. Some think it is US only. Opinion?