Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 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…

  • Sharing CMS Stories

    I’ve got this idea of putting together a collection of interviews with users and developers of CMS & other anti-CMS solutions – (h/t @mikenolan) basically just nicking Mike’s Mobile Museum idea and remixing it 🙂 The focus would be on large ‘corporate’ websites in the public sector, higher education and charity sectors I think –…

  • 2011: Annus mirabilis

    According to the lovely folk at Wikipedia ‘Annus mirabilis‘ is Latin for ‘year of miracles’ (amongst other similar phrases!) and professionally that is kind of what 2011 felt like for me. If 2009 was a disaster and 2010 was a pretty good step in the right direction then 2011 finally found me happy and settled…