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As part of our initial contract with the TDA we had had to agree to report out monthly usagestatistics: Numbers of log-ins; numbers of users; numbers of downloads; most visited pages andso on. Built into the TTRB infrastructure were SQL tools which allowed us to pull off the 'backend', what to me were, very sophisticated reports. And then came again Google. GoogleAnalytics takes such activity to a whole new level and it was not long before I was producingvery sophisticated data reports which certainly impressed colleagues on the RE-Net SteeringGroup. The like of this technology had not been seen before in the RE community; nor since.Whether the TDA were impressed remains an open question. They were however always politeand received the reports with good grace and a lot of questions.ImpactAgain, what had started out as a simple response to the request for me to attend a meeting in myrole as Faculty of Education, Director of Learning and Teaching with ICT, resulted in me in adifferent role and with a whole new range of technology-related skills. There is no doubt in mymind that had this sequence of events not occurred I would not now understand SQL technology,would be oblivious to the dark art of meta-data schemas and might never have heard of theBritish Education Index or its very useful sister technology, Educationline. The latter has beenused for this study. Most significantly this IM plugged me into a series of networks from whichI still benefit (N 3 ). It has resulted in me securing self-employed work both as a direct contractworker for RM Data Solutions and also now as a piece-work interpreter of data reports arisingfrom RAISEOnline and the Fischer Family Trust.215Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)