In the process of planning for Chameleon Net's 10th bday celebration (today's the actual day, by the way), it occurred to me that I'm celebrating my own anniversary of sorts - October marks 5 years of my being here at Chameleon.

Time has flown by and a lot has happened, that's for sure. So in the spirit of the both Chameleon being 10, and me notching up 5 years service, here are my highlights of the past semi-decade working in web with Chameleon.

Maybe it’s my age but for the first time ever I’ve found myself following the developments of the US Presidential Elections. With just five days to go, the coverage on the BBC has been up to its usual standards, but I’ve been intrigued enough by the characters of the main players to have a look at their websites and see how they’re using the web to spread their message.

Organisations can no longer hide from the fact that the web now has the power to make or break them. The ‘blogosphere’ should be ignored at their peril.

When Alumni, Communications, Development and Marketing professionals get together to talk about the Higher Education sector, some interesting common issues begin to emerge.

In August, Vicky (our MD) and I spent an afternoon at the CASE Europe Annual Conference in Brighton. The sessions I had the opportunity to attend centred around the topic of reputation management.