Who is thewikiman?

thewikiman is the nom-de-2.0 of Ned Potter, LIFE-SHARE Project Officer at the University of Leeds. The LIFE-SHARE Project is 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.

CILIP stuff

Ned is the New Professionals Support Officer for the Career Development Group (Yorkshire & Humberside); please feel free to contact him with any New Professional related queries, or questions about CDG. He is active in CILIP, presenting at various events, sitting on the committee for Yorkshire & Humberside CDG, and on the working-group organising the 2010 New Professionals Conference. He is also in the process of creating a New Professionals Network for the region; if you'd like to get involved with this please get in touch.

a very brief biog

Ned began working as an Information Professional in a Customer-Services role at Leeds University library. He moved swiftly on to become the Project Assistant of the Online Course Readings Project, a pilot scheme of the Service described above. When the Project 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.

He has a BA in Philosophy / English and an MA in Music, both from York, and an MSc in Information & Library Management, from Northumbria.

Ned enjoys drumming, and writing about himself in the third-person. You can contact him here.