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Interview : Jo Swinson – MP for East Dunbartonshire (part two)

August 12th, 2009

As promised yesterday we have put together part two of our interview with Jo Swinson.

This time we were interested to hear wht her thoughts were on the effectiveness of an MP having a website. Is it useful and how is it aiding campaining?Read more…

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Interview : Jo Swinson – MP for East Dunbartonshire (part one)

August 11th, 2009

joSwinsonJo Swinson is is an MP for East Dunbartonshire. She was elected in 2005 and is the youngest MP in the House of Commons (or was at the time of interview!) Jo has a huge CV of achievements both pre and post-election so to read more about her take a peek at her website or follow her on Twitter @joswinson.Read more…

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Interview : Blair Millen – GAWDS

March 19th, 2009

blairmillenOur interview today is with Blair Millen, administrator at Guild of Accessible Web Designers, owner at Doepud Web Design and team member of Accessites.org. He is an advocate of accessible website design and designs funky websites without compromising on usability.

Blair was my contact while trying (and succeeding) to gain membership to GAWDS back at the start of PoLR. He was the one who kept mailing me back and telling me to sort out my image replacement!Read more…

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Interview : Tzafrir Rehan – Next of Kin

March 9th, 2009

I was browsing through the Wordpress Plugins this afternoon and found one that made me chuckle. My first reaction was to think it was morbid, my second reaction was to Twitter about it and my third was to hit install!Read more…

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Interview : Wendy McDougall – 9-20 Recruitment

March 3rd, 2009

wendy mcdougallWendy McDougall is owner of the award winning IT recruitment specialist 9-20 Recruitment and the online IT community 9-20 network.

With over 10 years in the recruitment industry and the bulk of that time being spent within IT recruitment, Wendy is at the forefront of the industry in Scotland.Read more…

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Interview : Laura Heffernan – Photographer

January 13th, 2009

Laura Heffernan is an award winning Glasgow Photographer and Hi End Retoucher. Having studied at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing (now Glasgow Met). Her work has taken her to London and South Africa where she worked for Getty Images and Corbis.

As Laura is self-employed, PoLR are interested in hearing how marketing has changed for a photographer over the last 10 years when, as crazy as this now sounds, the web wasn’t the first stop for everyone!Read more…

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