2019 – Page 2 – By @mhawksey

Repost: Sending bulk email (mail merge) using Gmail and Google Sheets

October 3, 2019

Simplify the process of producing visually rich mail merges using Gmail and combining it with data from Google Sheets. With this solution you can automatically populate an email template created as a Gmail draft with data from Google Sheets. Merged emails are sent from your Gmail account allowing you to respond to recipient replies.

Apps Script Pulse – Sharing Google Apps Script community content

September 27, 2019

Apps Script Pulse is a new space to keep up-to-date with the latest contributions from the Google Apps Script community. Pulse is designed to compliment other community spaces – with the Apps Script Stack Overflow site supporting Q&A, the Apps Script Google Group providing a discussion space and the new G Suite Solutions Gallery providing […]

Google Apps Script Patterns: Celebrating 10 years by revisiting mail merge/bulk emailing

September 23, 2019

TL;DR A new solution for creating and distribute visually rich bulk emails with Gmail and Google Sheets. On 19 August 2019 Google Apps Script celebrated 10 years of general access. Apps Script has come a long way in the 10 years as you can see from the announcement blog post and launch video also embedded […]

On becoming a Certified Member of ALT #CMALT

September 16, 2019

After many years of procrastination and several long haul flights was successful in completing my CMALT Accreditation. For those that don’t know the ‘CMALT Accreditation Framework provides pathways to peer-assessed accreditation for Learning Technology professionals in the UK and internationally’ and is administered by the Association for Learning Technology. Gaining CMALT has been on my […]

Virtual Teams: The perfect blend? Bringing the skills of distributed teams to face-to-face events (special podcast edition)

September 11, 2019

Welcome to this month’s post (cross-posted here) in which we, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), openly share our approach to leading a virtual team. This time we talk about how we as a digitally and geographically distributed team connect face to face and why we think a blended approach is important. […]

Virtual Teams: Creativity Hacks for Virtual Teams (and why we maybe do like emoji after all)

August 1, 2019

Hello and welcome to this month’s post on leading a virtual team. In this post (cross-posted here) the two of us, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), continue our series of openly sharing our approach to leadership. If you are new here, you can catch up on earlier posts and podcasts or […]

Virtual Teams: It’s good to keep in touch …. most of the time ;)

July 9, 2019

#Domains19: The art of surveillance and video production

July 8, 2019

Back in February I was announced as one of the featured artists at Domains19. Jim has captured the moment in the announcement post: The idea for having Martin speak at Domains was a happy accident while speaking with both Maren Deepwell and Martin about ideas for OER19. He had done something wild with a Raspberry […]

#Domains19: Minority Report – One Nation Under CCTV

June 11, 2019

Late last year I was invited to speak at Reclaim Hostings #Domains19 conference following a chance conversation with Jim Groom (#BigFan). We were talking about one of the #Domains19 themes ‘privacy and surveillance’. This post is designed to capture some of the context and ideas around my subsequent ‘Minority Report – One Nation Under CCTV’ […]

Virtual Teams: Stickers, “I love me” walls, CPD and travel (also, this is really about recruitment)

June 7, 2019

Hello and welcome to this month’s special podcast edition post on leading a virtual team. In this post (cross-posted here) the two of us, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), continue our series of openly sharing our approach to leadership. If you are new here, you can catch up on earlier posts […]