Jim Buchan

I'd like to welcome a new blog to the landscape - that of my good friend and colleague, Jim Buchan. Jim, for those who don't know him, is the real technology brain that underpins so much of Glow. People, over the years, have been very kind in granting me much of the credit for realizing the original vision of SSDN that grew out of the early work of Stuart Robertson and Neil MacFarlane, but the real credit should go to two people, one of whom is Jim. [The other is Robert Skey, whose own immersion in Web technology ensured that the original specification for SSDN made sense and provided a realistic basis for the long and complex procurement and, now, the implementation of the whole venture.] Jim has a genuinely profound understanding of how the different bits of technology (telecoms, hardware, software - the whole caboodle), involved in an enterprise such as Glow 'hang together'. His ability to think a long way ahead, to see connections in the future that are dependent on making the right decision now, to understand the deep-level linkages between the technology and education (Jim, for all his technological expertise, is at heart still an educationist) - all these attributes and more have ensured that Glow is now in good heart and in rude health, as I have said elsewhere. His blog is in its early stages but I know that if he hangs around in this landscape for any length of time his wisdom and experience will prove useful to any who come across him or who make contact with him. Welcome, Jim. ps if you don't know Jim but hope to recognise him in the future from the photo attached, add a little sprinkling of grey to the hair and you'll be fine......

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