Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • The Resilience of the Bold

    This week Janet wrote a wonderful blogpost that struck a nerve far and wide (at least in my corner of Twitter!) The post was a follow up to the session she ran at #ukgc16 and was on the topic of boldness and in particular whether that was a missing (explicit) value for the Civil Service.…

  • CorridorCamp16

    aka #UKGC16 I have a little confession. I am terrible at BarCamps. Really bad at them. I have attended more than my share of them over the years and 100% believe they are brilliant, mind-altering, status quo challenging necessities for our community. I am just rubbish at them. Saturday was my sixth Govcamp I think — I…

  • whither Web of Words

    I’ve been circling around an idea for an event about blogs and blogging for a couple of years now. I wrote about it back in early 2014 and despite some shenanigans have managed to hold on to the domain webofwords.org for even longer. 2015 seemed like a bit of a comeback for individuals publishing on…

  • Farewell old friends (reunited)

    So Friends Reunited is closing down. Really did anyone really know it was still going? It had long since been superseded in the public consciousness by Facebook — hell probably even by Peach. I remember happier times for the Friends though. At the turn of the naughties before social media was anything more than a twinkle in…

  • More Tigger than Tiger

    Andrew Greenway has written an interesting post in defence of the ‘senior civil service’. I don’t have much to say directly about what he has written — my experience with the SCS is primarily limited to those I know at ONS and a few I’ve known and know at GDS. Even with that narrow a perspective I…