Category: thoughts
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
