As some of you may know, I’ve been based in London on secondment for the last 10 1/2 months, this came to an end as at 29th July and I’ve since been relocating with my family back to Melbourne, Australia - my home town.

A combination of facts, including holidays, lots of house priorities and a lack of broadband at home for a couple of weeks has prevented me from blogging for a while.  Things are starting to settle and I think I’ll be back in business soon.

I have continued to participate in the community however and am taking a bigger interest in the Australian Web 2.0 community which is very active and has really matured in the 10 months I’ve been away. Either that, or maybe I’m just more in tune with it, I’m not sure.  In doing so I’ve engaged in some debates through comments on a couple of blogs, something which led to me being quoted on one blog as “Tim Bull from my employer“.

I’m not ashamed of my employer at all, I’m proud to work for them and if you want to check out my LinkedIn profile, they feature prominately.  However I have always had an implicit editorial policy that I never mention them, not least in part because ultimately the ideas expressed here are mine and don’t represent those of my employer.  Actually if I was found to be representing the view of my employer, that could be cause for an issue given what we do, so I’ve always kept the two things separate — my personal blog where I expound my own ideas and theories on things and participate in the community, and my professional profile which is me at work.

Consequently, I decided an implicit policy was not enough, so I’ve now written one which you can find here.

It’s nothing special, but the time has come to make explicit the distinction between my professional opinion (although it may draw on my personal experience) and my personal opinion (although it may be shaped by my professional experience).