Author: Matt Jukes

  • Making sense from chaos

    Let me put this out there straight away. I am not an organised person. Far from it. Unlike many friends and colleagues I was spared the compulsive list making gene and things like GTD or worrying about ‘inbox zero‘ are about as far from my day to day concerns as it is possible to get.…

  • The Cotweet crisis

    For the last year or so we have been using Cotweet at work to allow a small group from different teams to all contribute to our corporate Twitter account. This was a key element of us moving from the RSS powered robo-tweets to some attempt at having a human voice coming through (albeit still a…

  • Birth of Betagov

    So yesterday evening Betagov was born. It began not with a bang but with a Twitter 🙂 A virtual torrent of tweets filled my timeline last night at a little after 9pm as the new site became available and we all had a little play. I’m not going to write much here to today as…

  • Introducing #govwest

    Gov West is a halfday event on March 20th taking place as a part of the Bath Digital Festival that Mr Ellis is organising. It will consist of several short (20 mins-ish), case study talks from digital leaders in the public sector with a particular focus on speakers from the Westcountry. It is not an…

  • Organizations Don’t Tweet, People Do – quick review

    A while ago I decided I was going to quit buying books by the big thinkers of the digital world. In my experience the books are inevitably too long and feel a little dated by the time they get released. Plus it always seems a weird way of consuming knowledge about this sort of thing…