Category: thoughts
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Digitally mature management?
As I have said before I think one of the great achievements of the Government Digital Service, and the report from Martha Lane Fox that spawned it, isn’t the commitment to open source/standards or recruiting such a great team of designers and developers (though they are both great) but the fact that Mike Bracken was…
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#UKGC12 – User centric
Yesterday I attended the 5th (I think) UK Govcamp at the very swanky Microsoft offices in central London. As usual it was a great day and went a long way to refreshing my passion for the work I do (something that has been waning for a little while). I made a major effort this year…
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Follow Fridays – Gov special edition
So back in October I did a little post outlining my first four ‘follow Fridays’ for Twitter. I made some vague commitment about doing it again but never got around to it. Until now :) This is a Gov-ish special edition as UKGovcamp is only one week away. There could obviously be many more than…
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Sharing CMS Stories
I’ve got this idea of putting together a collection of interviews with users and developers of CMS & other anti-CMS solutions – (h/t @mikenolan) basically just nicking Mike’s Mobile Museum idea and remixing it :) The focus would be on large ‘corporate’ websites in the public sector, higher education and charity sectors I think –…
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A crack in the cookie craziness?
Today the ICO released some new guidance about my favourite upcoming Cookie law. The final entry in the FAQ offers a glimmer of hope for those of us stressing about losing access to our usage data. I say ‘glimmer of hope’ because the wording seems intentionally vague and non-committal but it does at least seem…
