Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 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…

  • 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…