A busy week last week for the Digital Health Service with our second workshop for The Learning & Skills Council as well as exhibiting at NESTA's Innovation Edge expo on Southbank.  While the Nina manned our stand at NESTA I was off on a fast train from London bridge to LSC Towers in Croydon to be part of their Learning At Work day (which seemed to also consist of a wine tasting session later that evening - wish I could have hung around!).

We got right in there and got the day started talking through strategies for emailing, information diets and the pros and cons of transparaency of working styles and selective ignorance for the future of the knowledge worker.  Phew. 

Email was top of the list yet again for exploration in the Digital Health Landscape excercise, closely followed by Blackberrys and then Facebook.  We saw some very positive use and love of Blackberrys - it's good to remind ourselves that technology can be a real benefit to our work lives if used in an aware and controlled way. 

Facebook caused a real split with the 'I'm not going near it in a month of Sundays' group facing off the 'Yea I know it's a bit of a pain but I find it quite fun' group across the digital health grid.  The tension disappearing magically when the groups explored how they'd be using it in future - not many were still using it to arrange their social lives.  Each workshop I do there appears to me more and more bordom with Facebook.  Sea change?
  

After the pleasing success of our Wiki and RSS dramatic explanations (imagine a real time CommonCraft show) we'll be adding further how-tos and tips to the next workshop as requested by a the LSC participants.  Thanks for the feedback guys and many thanks to Debi and Bek for arranging the day.