Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Digitally mature management?

    As I have said before I think one of the great achievements of the Government Digital Service, and the report from Martha Lane Fox that spawned it, isn’t the commitment to open source/standards or recruiting such a great team of designers and developers (though they are both great) but the fact that Mike Bracken was…

  • #UKGC12 – User centric

    Yesterday I attended the 5th (I think) UK Govcamp at the very swanky Microsoft offices in central London. As usual it was a great day and went a long way to refreshing my passion for the work I do (something that has been waning for a little while). I made a major effort this year…

  • Follow Fridays – Gov special edition

    So back in October I did a little post outlining my first four ‘follow Fridays’ for Twitter. I made some vague commitment about doing it again but never got around to it. Until now 🙂 This is a Gov-ish special edition as UKGovcamp is only one week away. There could obviously be many more than…

  • Trying out Trello

    At sometime over the Christmas break I followed a link from Twitter (sorry I don’t remember who from) to a blogpost by Joel Spolsky about the new product, Trello, his company Fog Creek was releasing (and also some very interesting anecdotes about his time at M$ working on the original Excel team.) Trello aims to…

  • Getting to grips with Google+

    I admit I approached Google+ with a certain amount of nervousness. I *really* disliked Buzz and was happy to see it wither on the vine but was a pretty big fan of Wave and felt like a bit of a muppet when that failed to take off. Also my days of jumping onto every new…