Monday 3rd March

My name is Daniel Heery and its a great privelege to be contributing a few words to the Ambassadors blog. I run Cybermoor, a social enterprise supplying a website http://www.cybermoor.org/ and broadband to residents of Alston Moor. We also offer other services including wireless broadband, websites and consultancy services to communities across the UK.
Today started when our 6 month old baby, Ben, woke me up at 5.55am, not that early for most farmers but a bit too early for me!
After breakfast I logged on and picked up e-mails.
We are part of a consortium looking at telecare across the EU and we are currently negotiating with the European Commission to fund a pilot in Cumbria. Our European partners often interpret things differently to us and now we are getting close to a deal, we are having to sort out the details. That took up a fair amount of time, then I headed over to the office. We all work flexibly at Cybermoor - using the Alston wireless network we can log on from pretty much anywhere with our laptops to check e-mails and make phone calls.
At lunchtime we had a special general meeting for Cybermoor and I met with one of the Directors afterwards to discuss http://www.cybermoor.tv/. We recently carried out a survey of what our users thought of it and we now have to respond to the findings.
In the afternoon, I had a long meeting with some academics from Leeds and Sheffield who are researching the use of technology. We took a walk around Alston and I showed them our broadband antennas and explained the complexities of managing Cybermoor broadband in Alston and the nearby Dales (http://www.cybermoor.coop/)
After responding to some e-mail queries about our NHS project and it was time to call it a day. Then I bumped into someone on the street and had a long chat about funding for a website project we are doing with Alston Sheep Show!