Author: Matt Jukes

  • 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…

  • 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…