Happy Christmas

Christmas is the season of silly snaps of meals and parties, and HUBSolutions is no exception. People always like the ones which show someone in a compromised position, but our meal never got to be quite that silly, maybe the presence of the younger generation, and David wanting to get back to add some more issues to the Issue Log somewhat contained the Christmas spirit.
The meal seemed an ideal opportunity to publish our photos, as I am sure there are some staff who customers have only spoken to over the telephone or by email. From bottom left around the table, they are Prathibha who started the Caseworks Mapping facility, Kitty, Selvi's five year old daughter, Selvi, who built all the Caseworks Web Pages, Me, Arlene who does the accounts and a spot of Caseworks training, David who does most of the Caseworks training and a great deal else besides, Krish who created the email facility, mobile working and finished the mapping facility and Manish, whose Oracle skills power our various Revenues and Benefits Applications.
Absent, were Kishore (who took the picture) and colleagues in other countries, David Scott - in Scotland, Zareena - in Saudi Arabia and Chris Parker skiing in the Alps.

EMAIL TheBlog@hubsolutions.co.uk with the snap of your ASB Team Christmas party - we would all like to see it!

Finally, Christmas is more than anything about children, whether you are religious or not, and I couldn't resist including this sweet picture of Kitty, the first (but not the last) baby to be born to a member of staff while working for HUBSolutions.

Happy Christmas and New Year!

Men in Red

Guess who they are!

Eddie McCall and Rodger Harley, two of South Lanarkshire's army of 30 + trusty Wardens who patrol the streets day and night looking for things like this - a load of old rubbish.

A deliberate act of Anti Social Beahviour, and what are they doing? No, not playing Solitaire!

The rubbish is being recorded so that a photograph, the GPS Coordinates and full details of its volume can be uploaded to the Caseworks Database and forwarded to the Cleansing Department the same day.

There is a close-up on our News page, which lets you see the PDA Smart Phone more clearly. As readers will know, the Blog is a little bit less formal, and I always like to find a lighter side to any story. A little while after I took the first picture, the phone rings. Would any of my readers care to provide a speach bubble for this call? Yes, a bit like Private Eye. Come up with a good one, and you will get a prize.

On a more serious note, there was light rain when I took this picture, and it is forecast to be heavy rain, every day for the next four days. After six weeks of wet and often sub-zero weather, isnt it amazing that all the devices are still working! Actually, isnt it amazing that Eddie and Rodger are still working!!

The Caseworker is Out!

Issue 4 of The Caseworker hit the World Wide Web this week, and is already filling many user's In Box. Those of you who also read this blog, please give me a bit of feedback! Either comment on the Blog, or email Caseworker@hubsolutions.co.uk

Anyway some feedback has arrived in my In Box so I will share it

"The caseworker model looks and feels very nice .... St Georges Square looks amazing as ever and brings back fond memories" Gerry McDougall, Portsmouth

"I have to say I really enjoyed reading The Caseworker....... A great update for me since i've been away for some time now." Zareena

Many thanks to both of you - and to my colleague David for sending them all out.

For those who haven't seen it, this is a "thumb nail". EMail Caseworker@hubsolutions.co.uk for your copy.

Christmas Cheer

Christmas coming... then it will be time for new year's resolutions. Mine, is to ensure I do at least one blog entry each month - whats yours? You can tell me by clicking the comments box, then you will be committed.

The Caseworks Newsletter is going out soon, with a rather impressive picture of Christmas in Glasgow on the front page. It seemed a good idea to include it here, to cheer up anyone feeling a bit depressed by the Credit Crunch. Whatever the weather, and whatever the financial situation, Glasgow is determined to have a good Christmas, and I have no hesitation in recommending readers to come here for a Christmas break Check out their website to see the rest - http://www.winterfestglasgow.com/
mmm, has this got anything to do with HUBSolutions or Caseworks or are we going a bit off message here? Well slightly. I have been spending most of my time in Glasgow for the last six weeks, so when I say the city, shopping, night life, cultural events and surrounding countryside are great, I am talking from experience. More importantly, I have recruited our first Scottish employee to help me out with the volume of work.

There is quite a lot of job satisfaction up here right now, with Glasgow Community and Security Services expressing delight with the new Mediation Database and other goodies which my colleague, David, and I have delivered. Then South Lanarkshire has gone live with the Mobile solution, and yesterday declared it to be a success worthy of publicity. I am hoping to get a photo of one of those wardens working in wintry conditions, keying some vital piece of information into his smart phone, for transmission to Caseworks Notify and Respond. All credit to my colleague, Krish, for this achievement, having taken the prototype Mobile solution to pieces and rebuilt it as a completely robust and sophisticated piece of software.