People behind the SalonSimon Belt - Salon CoordinatorSimon Belt started his career in the technology industry in the rather restrictive environment of the civil service, moving into the more flexible and innovative international outsourcing world. Looking to implement technology the way it should be deployed, rather than what suits any given contract, Simon established his own IT Consultancy in 1999 - Simply Better IT. His passion is to help improve the way small businesses use technology, by matching its use to the way they work best and delivering end-to-end IT solutions, to those best suited for engaging larger businesses and institutions as equals. Born and brought up in Yorkshire, he moved to Lancashire on a civilising mission some 25 years ago. After some success there, he’s moved on to sunny Derbyshire where he’s now based. From the delightful surroundings of New Mills where he plays golf at probably the friendliest golf club in Derbyshire, Simon plans and coordinates the Manchester Salon - preparing discussions, booking venues, promoting via the website, Email notifications and management of the Salon's Facebook Group. Always keen to take on new themes to discuss, formats to experiment with and collaborations to explore, please complete the Contact the Salon form with suggestions of your own. Reviews: The Thrill of Love, Dream On, We all criminals?, Mysterious Skin, Female Transport, From Nags to Riches, David Copperfield, Asylum of Grace, Mad for IT, Clare Allan, Engaging Audiences, The Bishopsgate, Gargantua, Weirdo. Mosher. Freak, Shades of Diva, Omid Djalili, The Iron Lady, The Straits, Young People, Project Nim, Neoliberals and Democracy, Radical Gardening, Entitled, Design The Future, Wizard, The End, Epic, Emotional Philosophy, George Monbiot, Communicative Capitalism, CING Lecture, The Social Network, God is a Manc, Mancunian Meander, 1984, Total Politics
Jane Turner - Reviews CoordinatorJane Turner is currently taking what she calls ‘some well-deserved but probably temporary rest’ from paid work, having previously laboured in a variety of occupations as an adult education tutor, elearning consultant, secondary school teacher, prison lecturer and civil servant. She has a first class honours degree in Political, Economic, and Social History from the University of Liverpool, a city in which she has family connections and where she lived for several years. She enjoys discussing topical subjects and writes an occasional review or article for the Salon. She tries to keep a clear head by walking in and around Derbyshire where she spent her early childhood. Reviews: Birdsong, Education Education Education, John Bramwell, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Down The Dock Road, The Events, Exam Factories, Crime and Punishment, Slow travel, Thérèse Desqueyroux, Prison, To Kill a Mockingbird, Arabian Nights, A Government Inspector, Long Distance Runner, Rolf Harris, Does Size Matter?, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Streetcar Named Desire, Good, All the Way Home, Echo & The Bunnymen, Like you've never been away, Jobs Not Therapy, View From The Bridge, Buena Vista, Welfare State Reforms, Mogadishu, A Christmas Carol, Spend Spend Spend, Musings on Transport, The Christians, Les Misérables, Picasso: Peace and Freedom, Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Shaped by War, Being Earnest
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