Episode 19: Helen Milner on the Good Things story and being one of Sheffield’s best kept tech secrets Helen Milner talks about the charity's origins, its expansion to Australia and Kenya, recruiting in Sheffield, and the challenges of digital inclusion. Iain BroomePodcast15th August 2018digital inclusionGood Things Foundationskills Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe to the RSS feed Episode 19 of the Sheffield Digital Podcast is ready for you and features an interview with Helen Milner, chief executive of Good Things Foundation. We start be asking Helen to share a potted history of the organisation, including its recent expansion into Australia and Kenya. She then talk about tackling digital inclusion and the challenges it brings, before moving on to Sheffield’s local digital skills partnership. We also cover the problem of finding qualified and willing developers in Sheffield, something Helen has written about previously. It’s part of a conversation we all really enjoyed and I’m sure you will too! Big thank you to Helen for giving up her time to speak to us. As always, in part two of the show (from around 40 minutes) we move on to cover some of the recent news and info from the city’s digital sector, including: Rowan Hall’s research and survey on Sheffield’s emerging co-working scene Mel and Chris reporting back from a DCMS Brexit meeting the second Sheffield Women in Tech event a visit and tour around Kollider for Mel and Chris an appeal for employer engagement around the College’s software developer apprenticeship. Go and grab your headphones. And don’t forget to subscribe if you want to get these episodes right in your podcast app of choice. Notes and links Every episode comes with a list of links to all of the various people, companies and topics that we reference. Here is that list for episode 19. Helen Milner (@helenmilner) | Twitter Our vision is a world where everyone benefits from digital | Good Things Foundation What we do | Good Things Foundation Work for us | Good Things Foundation Love Good Things, Love Sheffield, Love Digital | Helen Milner kolliderprojects (@Kollider_Sheff) | Twitter What do co-workers in Sheffield value? – Sheffield Digital Rowan’s co-working space survey ShfWIT (@ShfWit) | Twitter Ding! Ding! ShfWIT – the results are in Tickets, Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 17:30 | Eventbrite Sheffield Digital events calendar Meet our members | Sheffield Digital Become a member of Sheffield Digital Did I miss something you’re looking for? Just get in touch and let me know. Join the conversation We’re really keen to get your feedback on the podcast. You can share your thoughts with us on Twitter or on the channel in the Sheffield Digital Slack community. Thank you for the music Thanks again to Alex Mclean – aka Yaxu – for the show’s intro music, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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