Our partners and associates include:

Dan Croxen-John is the CEO and founder of Applied Web Analytics, a leading web analytics and website optimisation consultancy. Applied Web Analytics helps organisations understand their website visitors and improve their experience, leading to increased sales, enquiries and repeat business. Dan works with Reach Further to develop and deliver “Getting Return on Investment from Social Media” training courses. Prior to founding Applied Web Analytics, Dan ran two successful mail order businesses and substantially grew online revenues. He is a member of the Institute of Direct Marketing, holds a Google Analytics qualification and serves on the Web Analytics Association’s Education sub-committee advising on the development of a certification process of web analysts. Dan blogs, tweets and writes on a variety of online marketing topics.

James Ward James is a digital coach helping companies and individuals to understand the web and make the most of their presence online, creating a presence that will achieve their aims – whether that’s sales, leads or sign-ups from an existing website or via pay-per-click digital marketing or social media. This is where digital coaching can help. James has been interested in all things digital since the age of ten when he got his first computer, a Sinclair ZX81. Since he grew up he has started, run, and subsequently sold a successful restaurant, worked as marketing manager for Acas, the employment relations organisation, and now works as a freelance consultant.

Vivienne Duke is Director of flexworks-uk. Flexworks-uk is an employment service that aims to encourage wider flexible working opportunities in the UK. They do this by supporting companies in implementing agile working processes and through their Flexworks-uk jobs board which provides flexible working opportunities for job seekers.  She was winner of the Yorkshire Woman of Achievement - Business Award, the Working Families Innovation Award and the National Positive Recruitment Excellence Award.  Viv is a partner in our flexible and remote working project Beyond 9 to 5.

Dr Nancy Weitz is an internet strategy and learning consultant. She has worked as a web designer, learning technologist, e-learning specialist, head of ICT, lecturer of Technology and assistant professor of English. This experience has allowed her to develop a strategic overview and establish connections between technology, design, communication and rhetoric. Working with the public and private sector, large and small organisations, business and education, gives her a valuable insight into the needs of a wide variety of clients, including such organisations as Bath University, the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services and Plan International.

Sharon Rundle is a published writer, fiction consultant and adult education tutor. Her work has been published and broadcast in Australia and internationally. Her most recent published story appears in “Encounters: Modern Australian Short Stories” (Five Mile, Australia, November, 2006). Other recent publications include two stories in “Beyond the Grave” an anthology of Sydney writers, (In the World, Australia, 2005) and a literary essay “Strutting Our Stuff: Sujata Sankranti’s ‘The Warp and the Weft’”in “Desert in Bloom, Contemporary Indian Women’s Fiction in English” (hard cover, Delhi, India, 2004). Sharon’s stories have won literary awards including a Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She has also published books on writing. Sharon finds new media exciting and has contributed to several online writing projects as well as teaching online writing courses including those she teaches for Reach Further. She is a Writing Fellow of the Fellowship of Australian Writers; and is also co-ordinator of the University Technology Sydney Alumni e-community Online Writer’s Network and editor of their monthly e-zine. She has a degree in Adult Education (UTS) and teaches English and writing courses for tertiary institutions in Australia and the UK. As a manuscript consultant, she assists writers to develop fiction works in progress in Indigenised Versions of English or Global Englishes. Sharon is based in the Hunter Valley, Australia.

Menusandblocks, comprising James Panton and Chris Maiden, are our Drupal Consultants.  They support the finer points of theming and module writing

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