Category: thoughts
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Talkin’ loud, saying something
“..knowledge only travels when it’s interesting and memorable enough for someone to retell your story.” Sam Villis Not for the first time Sam nails it. I was sorry to miss her session at Govcamp last weekend (I was probably gossiping in the corridor as per..) but she wrote up her workshop in beautiful detail. The…
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What do you [really] do?
That is the question isn’t it? My job title is Head of Digital Transformation. Yep I don’t know what that means either. Probably not what you think it does. The reality is my job title should have probably been Head of Beta.ONS for this year – because it has been pretty much all consuming. Where…
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Balls, bibs and cones
I was recently accused (in the nicest possible way) of being a ‘digital leader’. This is a kind of catch all senior role/position that has grown in currency in the last year or so, particularly in and around the civil service. Shortly before the GDS exodus Mike Bracken wrote a post about if you ‘Hire…
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Interesting elsewhere: Bring on the Bots
Here are a few links to things that have sparked my interest recently. More and more I find myself drawn to ideas and technologies that are about making data truly human-readable – but in some kind of of automated, artificially (not very) intelligent way. I’ve written about the ‘robo-reporting‘ and my thoughts on ‘conversational interfaces‘…
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Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
There was a time when it seemed like this was a staple of every interview anyone attended. It seems to have, thankfully, gone out of style now but once upon a time it was the go-to question. My standard answer back then was that I wanted to be Head of Web/Online/Digital for a major university.…
