A UK-based social and educational technologist and blogger, currently working as an independent consultant. She has worked at local, regional and national level promoting and developing the effective and innovative use of ICT and e-learning design, delivery and policy. Working with Government, national agencies and international service providers on a variety of projects, she is primarily interested in privacy and interoperability, e-safety, media literacy, personalisation and web 2.0. She works in online community research and development, serves on several national and international advisory boards, manages the Edublog Awards (the annual international awards programme for educational bloggers) - this year with James Farmer. She works with the charity Childnet International , delivering the recently issued cyberbullying guidance for schools for the UK’s Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF – formally the DfES), and is currently leading on the production of social networking advice for schools, parents and carers. Her main blog is over at SocialTech.