About this site

This site is an educational resource, a research project and a publication channel written by Jonathan Briggs, Professor of eCommerce at Kingston University.

As well as being Professor at Kingston, Jonathan is co-founder and Business Development Director of UK software consultancy the OTHER media Ltd. Founded thirteen years ago with Nick Oates and George Crabb, the OTHER media specialises in Electronic Commerce, Educational Internet projects and large scale news and information websites. Current clients include the England and Wales Cricket Board, Delia Smith, Cucina Direct, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Abbey Box Office, Virgin Experience Days, Royal Academy of Arts, Luminar, the Nuffield Foundation, the Brightside Trust, Shaun Woodward MP, Paul Smith and the Zoological Society for London.

In 1996 Jonathan worked with David Erixon, Nick Oates and Lars Lund to create Hyper Island School of New Media Design in Karlskrona, Sweden. This university level college now graduates 70 students per year. In 2003 Jonathan was asked to help design the curriculum for IPKO Management Programme, a similar initiative in Kosova, funded by the Swedish Foreign Ministry through the Olaf Palme Foundation. Hyper Island has just opened a second location in Stockholm.

Jonathan has been blogging since 2003 and this blog has been designed to support Jonathan's teaching, research and consulting activities particularly at Kingston University. It will include publication of all lecture notes, signposting of useful resources, news and case studies and everything will be commentable.

Credits

A big thanks to Nick Oates for building this site and to Rich, Simon, Martin, Joerg and the rest of the team who help behind the scenes with all the content management technology.

The graphic design is by Richard Zetterberg of Hyper Island and the OTHER media!

Oh and the photographs are all mine and will reflect the quirky things that I do.

Take a look at some of the OTHER media's client sites
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk

If you like these sites and want to talk to us, contact me jonathan AT othermedia DOT com

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