Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • A being in search of meaning

    The guys at GDS have blogged today about the work they are undertaking in improving their internal search. This is of particular interest to me as very recently an eminent economist/journalist stated that the ONS search “was like Google on an acid trip“. This may be somewhat harsh but it is safe to say that…

  • Post PRISM

    I came across a couple of interesting posts this morning about personal online privacy in a post-PRISM world. http://benrmatthews.com/2013/06/my-privacy-plan/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1g0nzx/after_the_reading_countless_posts_complaining/ To be honest I’m not really sure how effective any of this stuff would be – like the whistleblower Edward Snowden himself suggests the likelihood is that the security/intelligence services are way past this sort…

  • Three of a kind [090613]

    What If The Product Is The Service Is The Marketing? Great post from Emer Coleman (recently of GDS) about the changing face of ‘marketing and communications’ in this digital world of ours. I particularly liked this line “if you’re relevant and have standing in the conversation, then things like press releases become pretty irrelevant.” The…

  • Frying pan…meet fire

    I don’t mind a challenge. In fact professionally it is safe to say I seek them out. The simple fact I made a conscious decision to try and carve out a career as a digital strategist in the public sector was (pre-GDS) a pretty major challenge in of itself. But…but… sometimes I miss stacking shelves…

  • The un-newspaper

      I recently made a pitch to run another Govcamp style event and got the offer of some funding from the UKGovCamp grant programme and have been looking into running that later this year, especially as I’ll be organising my ‘brown bag’ talks at work as well, but while I was doing the research for…