Author: Matt Jukes

  • 52: Week Six

    Bit of a roller coaster of a week it has to be said. It finished on a positive note though so I’m clinging on to that. Monday started pretty well. I had the first meeting of all my team leads – well the ones who were in (so design, programme comms, editorial and content management…

  • Brown bagging it..

    The idea of a ‘brown bag’ talk/seminar seems like a particularly American thing – I mean we don’t really ‘brown bag’ it here in the UK, its all about the ‘packed lunch’ 🙂 Nonetheless from US academia via startups and global web companies the idea has even reached the dark corner of the Civil Service…

  • Three of a kind [020613]

    Oh my god, don’t make things for “Everyone.” Dan Sinker heads up the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project for Mozilla and I’ve been reading alot about that project recently and finding Source, their digital journalism magazine, particularly interesting. This was a personal post though and one that resonates with me as I’m currently knee deep in personas…

  • 52: Week Five

    *Really* short this one thanks to the bank holiday and an extra day for the Queens birthday (doffs cap) and even when I was in the place felt a little ‘Marie Celeste’ like. A combination of the days off and half term meant people were thin on the ground. My biggest success this week was…

  • Three of a kind [reprise]

    Last summer I briefly tried to ‘curate’ (that ones for Mike!) a weekly list of links I’d found interesting. It didn’t last long. I’m not convinced I’m going to be any better this time but I am reading *alot* of blogposts at the moment and sending quite a bit to Evernote so we’ll see. Anyway…