John began his career developing e-learning and expert systems before moving into business application and web development. He co-founded Sereno with Rod fifteen years ago. John concentrates on developing digital strategies with Sereno's charity partners and leads on design.
Roll-up, roll-up for Brighton's very own DrupalCamp on 28-29 April. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about how Drupal can help you - developers will get a chance to meet and learn from some of the best Drupal devs. Sereno is proud to be a sponsor of this event.
Find out more and register for free at the Brighton Area Drupal Association.
We're working on some fairly big projects at the moment, a number of which are still at the design stage. We have a pretty solid approach to design here at Sereno but as new methodologies and tools emerge, it's important to continually question your process and make improvements.
I am seeing more and more debate about learning in the cloud. I am not sure everyone really understands the cloud concept, and it's often used interchangably with Software as a Service (SaaS) or managed services. Which is fine really in this context. In essence, people really mean the same thing - learning content managed remotely and easily delivered anywhere.
It's by no means essential to run a social learning platform for yourself when you can easily adopt existing services, like Facebook, Ning or Twitter. There are also great free guides to using these tools, like as those provided by Jane Hart.
There are some great sites for e-learning professionals (I'll be blogging about them over the next few months) but Jane Hart's Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has always been a particular favourite.
We've been approached in the past about looking at environmentally-friendly hosting. We've been long-term partners at Rackspace, and have been pleased with their own carbon offset schemes and environmental policies. Their Green IT award in 2010 was a testament to that.