Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Thinking about the Inside Government alpha feedback

    There is alot to love in the latest bout of extreme transparency blogging from the GOVUK team. Sharing the results of the feedback and user testing for the Inside Government product gives a real insight into the challenges they are facing and how they intend to front up to them. It also lets those of…

  • On being open..

    So once again I am running a session at this years IWMW based on a half-formed idea and a hastily written direct message to Brian. What the abstract fails to actually get across though is..well everything. I’m not planning on talking about open source, content, data really. What I want to talk about is the…

  • Unicorns and Universities: Bathcamp 31

    This months Bathcamp was a corker (well I can only speak for the 2/3 I was there for but the Twitter buzz suggests the final talk was great as well.) Lisa put together a great agenda and the large crowd put pay to any thoughts that a night about ‘content’ wasn’t geeky enough for Bathcamp!…

  • Contemplating a content migration plan B

    It is becoming more and more apparent that I might actually have to *do* something about this new website I have been talking about for about 18 months. The project to procure a CMS has some real momentum and for the first time probably I think it is going to happen this year. [No idea…

  • Data driven HiPPO hunting

    I really enjoyed this article on Wired.com this week – The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That’s Changing the Rules of Business – and not just because it introduced me to a term that is going to be a mainstay of my vocabulary for years to come! That term is HiPPO – highest paid persons…