Category: thoughts
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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The Medium is the message
Fifty weeks after initially signing up to Medium I was finally invited to actually contribute some writing to it. Initially I was actually quite honoured as invites had been like gold-dust up until then. Then I looked at Twitter and realised the flood gates had opened and I was anything but special. I wanted to…
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Loyal to the network?
Emer Coleman, late of GDS, has written a particularly insightful post over at Computer Weekly talking about ‘How to lead when change is the new normal‘. While I disagree with a lot of her ‘web kids‘ premise for the same reasons I dismiss the ‘digital native‘ concept .. [as someone born some time post 1980…
