Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • A Twitter life…well half decade :)

    So this week I received this out of the blue on Twitter; To be honest its a bit of a sham – like alot of people I signed up without really much of a clue about the service back then and after sending the standard first tweet.. ..I followed a few people and really just…

  • Pre-owned principles for social media

    The last few weeks it seems circumstances been converging in a way that has been forcing me to refresh my thinking around social media in a work context. Stephen and Tim both wrote posts that got the gears turning, I was also invited to speak about social media to a new audience and alongside the…

  • Specialist or generalist? Digital comms in 2012

    Ann Kempster kicked off a really interesting debate over on her blog this week with a post titled And or neither nor: press and digital in 2012 [to be fair the title is the only clumsy bit of the piece!]. The post and the comments [so nice to see comments really being used to expand on…

  • Late to the ‘Lean’ Party

    As is my tradition at this point I was reading the latest Wired magazine while sat on the floor of a crowded train coming back from London. Usually I skim through the articles while trying not to get stood on by stressed commuters and just identify which order I’ll end up reading the longer pieces.…

  • GOV.US – the cousins catching up :)

    Last week the Whitehouse released their digital strategy “Digital Government – Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People“. It is an interesting document (and nice to see it being released as a Twitter Bootstrap powered HTML5 site rather than just another PDF!). Both O’Reilly and Code for America have covered the…