A while back I hinted at some exciting stuff I had going on, and that I planned to blog about it soon. Well, “me”, “blogging” and “soon” are obviously not terms that should be seen together, but that’s life.

At the beginning of March, I took up a new role as Director of Technology with the Inspire Foundation.

Inspire is a fantastic non-profit that runs a number of programs to help young people change their world. I’ve mentioned them in the past, I worked on ActNow with Leisa back in my Massive days.

Inspire decided that they needed to bring more of their web development in house rather than having to rely on third parties so much, and asked me to be in charge of technology.

It’s a bit of a dream job for me, but it did take me a little while to commit to it. I wasn’t sure about giving up my working at home full time and being able to be with the kids all day. However my job was involving me in all sorts of nasty company and project politics and in the end I decided that the amount of grumpyness I was bringing into the house was negating the benefits of me being there. As soon as I made the decision and started work, I immediately knew I’d made the right decision.

We have lots of fun stuff going on, and now I have this out of the way I might talk about them a little more on the blog. For starters, we’re making some tweaks to ActNow, a rebuild of Reachout is in the works and a couple of other things.

I’ll stop rambling now.