Travel is often more arduous than it should be, filled with noise, tedious announcements and unnecessary ‘security’ delays. I try to rise above it, finding a sense of stillness with a book or writing my blog, drawing on observations of new people and events around me, distilling those into short paragraphs about many topics. Listening, writing and talking captures the zeitgeist of a world I find myself in, helping me to understand its spirit.
Last November to coincide with Semple’s 5th birthday event I published an anthology featuring ten of my blogs posts to give to our guests. I asked for feedback and overwhelmingly heard the verdict that I have a fascination with technology and its power to connect us. It was and still is an accurate observation.
What I haven’t yet written about is my 2009 experiment in which I embedded communication technology into dresses that could be read by mobile phones and retail readers. Neither have I commented on how when you turn on an analogue and a digital radio at the same time, the older analogue technology is faster than the digital transmission by a time delay of more than 300 milliseconds!
So, you won’t be surprised to know that keeping business safe from cyber attacks is on my current agenda. And here is a fact and action for you. Fact: Women make up just 18% of the tech workforce in the UK. Action: If you know of a recent graduate in a STEM subject tell them about The National Security Academy as there are opportunities for them to join other talented people to support a safer future.
I will be hosting events in February, March and April on the topic of My Digital Self focusing on the challenges that professional women face when managing their persona online. Please get in touch if you would like to know more.