One of the founding partners of Silver Link retired in May and John has taken over his duties. John is now supporting the Silver Link debt litigation software. He is also revamping it to make it more user friendly.
The first user of the Silver Link debt collection software is now using the software live. John is spending much time on site installing the software and training users.
John is back working for Silver Link He has been contracted to configure Silver Link's procedural software to provide a debt collection module for collection companies. This module integrates with Silver Link's debt litigation suite.
John is running a project for Games Eden, a network for the East of England's computer games industry. He has been contracted to stage a series of events called "Brains in the Game" to attract young people into the industry.
At the same time he has been working on the re-launch of Collaborate2Innovate, which he now chairs.
John continues to develop the difficult software behind web sites. A firm of web designers engaged him to modify an Open Source content management system (CMS).
"Business Coaching" web site has added John's article on market segments to their blog page, describing it as "an excellent piece on Market Segments". See the blog here. The article has since been picked up by a major coaching web site
John has joined forces with surveyors KHA Associates to form a company called Survey Software Ltd to supply software for surveyors. John is a director of the company and will be responsible for bringing the software to market.
The Sudbury Chamber website www.sudbury.org.uk has been fully revised during 2008. The members' database has been moved to a MySQL database on the server, and is now web driven, with tabbed forms provided for officers to update the records. This has allowed the business directory to be driven directly from the database and a business search facility to be provided.
John gave another technology briefing to the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce, this one on Open Source software. He introduced the most popular Open Source software, like Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Open Office. He went on to explain the economics of Open Source and the paradigm shifts that have made it possible.