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		<title>Avoiding a Digital Idiocracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read with interest an article for a new Guardian series about Digital Literacy, and a significant issue facing Britain at the moment; namely the lack of workers with digital skills. To quote directly from the story, Britain is facing a shortage of workers with programming skills, fuelled by poor-quality training courses in universities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markloane.com/journal/2012/01/avoiding-a-digital-idiocracy/</link>
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		<title>Looking Back and Moving Forward: A C5 Retrospective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For most businesses, (located anywhere outside of the growing BRIC economies), 2011 has been tough. Closer to home we have seen the impact of the global financial crisis linger on, with pressure on employment, retail sales, GVA levels and property markets. In the Channel Islands we are in a much stronger position than many, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markloane.com/journal/2012/01/looking-back-and-moving-forward-a-c5-retrospective/</link>
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		<title>Jersey&#8217;s Budget speech &amp; the future of ICT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not often you can say that an annual Budget was exciting, but today’s speech by Jersey’s Treasury &#38; Resources Minister was an exception, for me at least. It was, to my knowledge, the first time that the Information &#38; Communication Technology (ICT) industry has had such a notable mention as part of Jersey’s core [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markloane.com/journal/2011/11/jerseys-budget-speech-the-future-of-ict/</link>
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		<title>Office 365 and the New Utility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last time I wrote about this topic back in December, I said that you were probably sick of hearing about how cloud computing was going to revolutionise IT, which means I should probably apologise for now saying this – cloud computing is going to revolutionise IT. Or rather, some providers of cloud computing are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markloane.com/journal/2011/08/office-365-and-the-new-utility/</link>
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		<title>Digital Jersey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The States and EDD are doing some work on a Jersey ICT Strategy, as part of the Enterprise and Business Development (E&#38;BD) Strategy. I attended meetings between EDD and a small group of local ICT company’s in March, the remit being: &#34;To identify the opportunities, barriers and enablers to support the growth of Jersey’s ICT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markloane.com/journal/2011/05/digital-jersey-2/</link>
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		<title>The Cloud cutting through the hype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’re probably sick of hearing how cloud computing is going to revolutionise IT. Wade through the promotional blurb of most vendors, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the cloud was less a utility model, more like a binary version of the second coming. Yes there are incredible savings to be made by harnessing the pooled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markloane.com/journal/2010/12/the-cloud-cutting-through-the-hype/</link>
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		<title>The community at your fingertips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have used Google maps. But few are aware of the powerful information now available at the click of a button using the Google map technology. The geographical information can be used to orientate web users– like pinpointing services and places of interest to residents in a specific area. Here is a internal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markloane.com/journal/2010/03/the-community-at-your-fingertips/</link>
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		<title>Sharepoint 2010 Briefing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great end to a busy week at C5.  We had fantastic responses to our Guernsey and Jersey seminars, introducing  Sharepoint 2010 to both existing and new clients.  In Guernsey, 19 key business decision makers joined us at Christies for the breakfast briefing.  In Jersey, 28 existing and potential clients braved the early start to join [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markloane.com/journal/2010/03/sharepoint-2010-briefing/</link>
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