Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Pre-owned principles for social media

    The last few weeks it seems circumstances been converging in a way that has been forcing me to refresh my thinking around social media in a work context. Stephen and Tim both wrote posts that got the gears turning, I was also invited to speak about social media to a new audience and alongside the…

  • One small step for the web, one giant leap for the organisation

    Today is a good day. I’ve written before about the need to celebrate the little wins and I am doing that again. This time though it doesn’t feel that little. It feels like a major achievement. Which is weird to say the least. Today we launched a blog for our organisation. This isn’t my first…

  • New kind of [civic] CTO?

    Recently I’ve found myself really quite fascinated by the evolving definition of the CTO role in the US public sector. My interest was kicked off by some further reading about the Lean Startup stuff and in particular this post about Open Innovation in DC. That led to me following a tweet from @dominiccampbell [who as…

  • Specialist or generalist? Digital comms in 2012

    Ann Kempster kicked off a really interesting debate over on her blog this week with a post titled And or neither nor: press and digital in 2012 [to be fair the title is the only clumsy bit of the piece!]. The post and the comments [so nice to see comments really being used to expand on…

  • Late to the ‘Lean’ Party

    As is my tradition at this point I was reading the latest Wired magazine while sat on the floor of a crowded train coming back from London. Usually I skim through the articles while trying not to get stood on by stressed commuters and just identify which order I’ll end up reading the longer pieces.…