British Computer Society; Internet Specialist Group
The BCS’s Internet Specialist Group are looking for people to contribute. I like the BCS and I think they do good work, but there aren’t too many people from the web community there.
It seems like the kinds of people who go to SXSW and FOWA are not the same people who are BCS members. This is an opportunity missed.
I’ve been voted onto the committee of the Internet Specialist Group as events co-ordinator. I’m looking for speakers (please contact me tom_croucher@yahoo.com with suggestions or offers) that will help to bring these two groups together. I think it’s essential that the new media crowd start talking to old business.
Update: I forgot to mention, you may not know but you can get your BCS written off against your tax. If you work in a Computing field it’s essentially free to be a member and you get some letters after your name.
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August 8th, 2007 at 10:21 am
I was a member of the BCS when I was a student, but it made sense then because I was studying Computing. I never really gained much from the association and the information they put out though, so it’ll be interesting to see whether they can become more relevant to people like myself who have come from a technical background but ended up in what I suppose is being called “new media”.