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The good news is that my computer is working again, and I’ve been back online since last week. I went to Manchester last Thursday to the Tencompetence meeting. Mark Stiles gave a great keynote presentation, as ever, and it was followed by a really interesting presentation about Ultraversity, a distance learning course where students only meet at graduation. It was inspiring to hear about people who have found this a great way to study without giving up work (who can afford to study without a job these days?), or combine study with parenting. As Enterprise SIG Coordinator, I also found it useful to hear Steve Bennet’s presentation on using Enterprise Web Services to connect Smirkboard and Perception (see his article on eLearning Focus for more info), and really liked the Heather Mills example he used to illustrate a point about the transient nature of student data. If you come to my SIG meetings, you’ll know I’m very much in favour of using silly or simple examples to make things easier to understand!