flying the colours

Last week in Fellowship...

We all trooped down to the Thames to watch the RAF fly past and I gave Ann the willies by sitting on the edge of the wall to get a better shot.

We've also started work on developing and improving our recruitment materials. And it's much more complicated than it seemed at first. We want to have better data on our Fellows, so that we can contact you with relevant information and help fulfill your networking requests. So we need to change some of the information on the application form, which means a redesign, and a reprint, and that impacts on the database capacity and search functions, and the data entry protocols, and the links between the new website and the database, and the deadlines for other design work....

These are the sorts of internal grindings going on in just one department, to support and develop the vision of a networked Fellowship, which isn't always obvious on the outside. There's been some frustration recently, both internally and from Fellows, with the progress of the Networks platform and organisational change within the RSA - particularly from the point of view of staff participation in the online section. But, without getting too mushy, I just wanted to 'fly the colours' for the project. This place has undergone a sea change since I joined 18 months ago, and there is an awful lot of work going on internally to enable us to really collaborate with the Fellowship, and we're still moving forward (slowly but surely).

Until next time...

Information on how to join the RSA Fellowship, and how to nominate others here.

(Photographs by me - this one of the RAF flypast over the Thames on the 1st April)

• Isabella Pereira - 05 Jun 2008 1:52pm

  What a glorious photo!

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