ByteNight is here again!

On Friday, 2nd October, ByteNight comes round again. This is the second year I've done ByteNight and the second time that I've been in a team that's successfully raised £5k. Woohoo & Phew!!

Actually this year, raising the money was tougher than ever, mostly due to the economic climate and people being less willing to part with their cash. Regardless, we got lucky - we had a load of redundant IT kit when we moved out of an office earlier this year and selling it to people in the Technology team gave us a real boost towards our target.

Obviously I'd be delighted if we raised more money, so if you'd like to donate, please go to our Justgiving website - click on the Donate button on the Justgiving widget on the right hand side of this blog.

Here's hoping that it'll be dry, last year it was dry, but very, very cold. However, that's preferable to rain!

£5k enables Action for Children to achieve a lot, and even in this economic climate I understand that ByteNight is on track to beat previous records with the regional events being significantly larger than last year. Last year's ByteNight raised more than £450k altogether and with very low overheads the vast majority of money goes straight to Action for Children initiatives.

Anyway, please keep fingers crossed for decent weather!!

A Conundrum

I have a conundrum at the moment, I'm doing a lot of stuff that's incredibly interesting at work and in many ways I would love to blog about it and talk about the issues, difficulties, excitement, challenges and outcomes but this blog is in the public domain and the vast majority of what I'm doing will have an impact on people within my company. There are also commercial sensitivities that need to be taken in to account.

That impact is not necessarily going to be seen as positive by everyone that it affects. Whilst I believe that all I'm doing will be very positive for the business in the long run I need to have a duty of care to those who may or may not be involved and read posts I put on this blog.

So, it is interesting times at work and maybe at some point in the future I'll blog about them, but for now I'll be having a think about other topics that I can blog on rather than what I am dealing with at work.

At the moment I'm working on a presentation for a conference in September on being a great leader in challenging times. When that's finished, I'll post something along those lines. In the meantime, please excuse the lower than normal levels of blogging!