Dan Dixon
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Biography
I have 10 years of commercial web design and development experience. My main interests are around designing holistic services (but focused on the web/internet as an enabler) that make the best use of the social aspects of shared use.
In 1997 I started off at web design agency Syzygy in the years of the dotcom boom. I quickly moved from a pure technical role into a project management and production capacity, ending up as Production Director. While there I worked on sites for well known names like BP, Boots and Mazda as well as helping out with start ups like QXL, Schoolsnet and evolvebank.
Then it was a move into a big media organisation, as the fall out from the internet bubble was settling. I took a role in the BBC managing various portfolios of web applications and helped define what Product Management was for the beeb's online products/services. For most of my time there I was in the communities team; designing/developing/managing the software platforms that supported all the bbc.co.uk online communities.
Most recently I worked for the Social Software company Headshift as a Senior Consultant. Whilst there I worked with clients to help them understand, and make the most of, what gets called Web 2.0, social or participative media.
I didn't aim for this at the beginning, I started out studying Egyptology and Philosophy at university.