Uncategorised Archives • dotScot Registry Home of the .scot Domain Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:19:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://static.dot.scot/uploads/2020/04/icon-1-5e935775v1_site_icon-32x32.png Uncategorised Archives • dotScot Registry 32 32 Happy Birthday To Us! https://dot.scot/blog/2024/happy-birthday-to-us-as-dotscot-turns-ten/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:30:39 +0000 https://dot.scot/?p=12338/ Celebrating Ten Years of Highlighting Scotland and the Scots Diaspora Worldwide Scotland acquired its own internet identity ten years ago after a group of motivated Scots formed a not-for-profit company and applied to the the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names…

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DigitalXtraFund.scot https://dot.scot/blog/2023/digitalxtrafund-scot/ Fri, 06 Oct 2023 09:16:45 +0000 https://dot.scot/?p=12319/ Digital Learning Hub by Stirling High School – © Rory Semple Digital Xtra Fund delivers 26 grant awards totalling £110k to local tech and coding clubs for young people across Scotland • Supported initiatives span 18 local authorities with an…

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Castleoflight.scot https://dot.scot/blog/2022/castleoflight-scot/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:58:26 +0000 https://dot.scot/?p=12248/ Castle of Light is in it’s third year and a #dotScot delegation has attended all of them. This year we were represented by two parents and Sienna, our one year old, whose job it was to provide a new perspective.…

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Welcome Hannah Rowena Mondiwa, our new dotScot ambassador in Canada https://dot.scot/blog/2022/welcome-hannah-rowena-mondiwa-our-new-dotscot-ambassador-in-canada/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 05:27:32 +0000 https://dot.scot/?p=12183/ I was born in Blantyre, Malawi, a city, and a country with a lot of Scottish influence but my first memories were of Cumbernauld, Scotland, where I moved to as a toddler and where I spent most of my formative…

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Big dotScot welcome to Claire Alexander, our global ambassador in Africa https://dot.scot/blog/2022/big-dotscot-welcome-to-claire-alexander-our-global-ambassador-in-africa/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:16:33 +0000 https://dot.scot/?p=12178/ Claire Alexander is a double business owner, award-winning event producer, guest lecturer, mentor and speaker. A graduate of Strathclyde University’s Business School in Glasgow, Claire hails from Menstrie, a small village on the outskirts of Stirling. She went to Alva…

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dotScot Review of the Year 2021 https://dot.scot/blog/2022/dotscot-review-of-the-year-2021/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:22:11 +0000 https://dot.scot/?p=12064/ 2021 got off to a flyer with the news in January that the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) had migrated its main website to .scot, providing an example for other large organisations to follow and a model for the…

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dotScot Turns Seven https://dot.scot/blog/2021/dotscot-turns-seven/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:10:07 +0000 https://dot.scot/?p=11985/ The dotScot Registry launched the .scot domain seven years ago (July 2014) and the launch received widespread media coverage, including BBC News, The Scotsman and CityAM. Most of the articles came with two quotations. The first was from then Deputy…

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Welcome to our new global ambassador in India – Vir Singh Anand https://dot.scot/blog/2020/welcome-to-our-new-global-ambassador-in-india-vir-singh-anand/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:37:57 +0000 https://dot.scot/?p=11922/ Having graduated with an MA(hons) in Management from the University of St Andrews (2012-2016), I briefly worked in London for an analytics and insight firm before heading back to Scotland to join the St Andrews Admissions office. As the need…

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