Category: thoughts

  • A digital person working in government

    Yesterday evening I finally got around to watching the talk Neil Williams gave at the Dare conference a couple of weeks ago. If you work in digital in the public or higher education sectors (and probably other sectors as well – I’m pretty sure it will resonate with my friends in the museum sector) then…

  • Six of the best: 312 weeks blogging on WordPress

    So I’ve just realised that I have missed my six year anniversary of this blog (well the original incarnation of this blog anyway) so I have been reminiscing a little. I started my first WordPress blog (after playing around with both Typepad and Blogger but not getting anywhere) on the original alpha of the Jisc…

  • How do you work?

    I quite enjoyed doing the little ‘How I Work‘ survey thing a couple of days ago and thought it might be fun to try and do a ‘digital by default’ version and get people working in the public/civic sector (or anyone else really) to fill it in – either for me to publish here or…

  • How I Work (with apologies to Lifehacker!)

    I love the ‘How I Work’ series on Lifehacker and recently they encouraged people to contribute their own – I saw Doug had done one and despite the fact I am about the least organised and productive person I know I thought it might be fun to take a stab at the questions 🙂 Location:…

  • Be your user?

    A few years ago I remember reading an interview with with either Ev Williams or Jack Dorsey about the early days of Twitter when something like the following was said. The reason Odeo, the podcast service that spawned Twitter, was never a success was that nobody in the team really listened to podcasts and so…