Who is thewikiman?
thewikiman is the nom-de-2.0 of Ned Potter - he can alternatively be found online as theREALwikiman, on those platforms (such as Twitter and Youtube) where someone else got there first and snagged the name.
thewikiman has been involved with various online movements (including creating LISNPN, the New Professionals Network), which you can read about on the Projects page.
Dates of upcoming talks, presentations and training can be found on the Presentations page.
Other places in which he can sometimes be found online include:
... and most importantly of all, the blog.
a very brief biog
Ned Potter works for the University of York Library, as an Academic Liaison Librarian; the subject areas he is responsible for are Music, and Theatre, Film & Television Studies.
Ned began working as an Information Professional in a Customer-Services role at University of Leeds library, in 2006. He moved swiftly on to become the Project Assistant of the Online Course Readings Project, and when this ended early and was deemed successful, Ned was promoted to be Digitisation Coordinator of the new Service. In 2010 he started work on the LIFE-SHARE Project. This JISC-funded undertaking was a collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield to provide consortial strategies for the creation, curation and preservation of different types of digital content.
He has a BA in Philosophy / English and an MA in Music, both from York, and an MSc in Information & Library Management, from Northumbria. In one heady 24hr period in early 2011 he was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker and as a winner of a Special Libraries Association (Europe) Early Career Conference Award.
Ned enjoys drumming, and writing about himself in the third-person. You can contact him here.