Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Greeting the Gateway to Research

    This time last year BIS launched the Innovation and Research Strategy and made the first public mention of a ‘gateway to research‘ that would openly provide data about all Government funded research via the web. [somewhere along the way the ‘Gateway to Research‘ became a bit of a brand in a way I am pretty sure…

  • Wondering about workflows..

    In my long history with content management systems one of the things that comes up time and time again is the idea of ‘workflow’. This always surprises me as in my experience it is the first piece of functionality that either gets turned off or worked around on every CMS I have been involved in!…

  • Wondering about WYSIWYG…again

    At the moment I am teetering on the edge of another CMS project rabbit hole from which there might be no escape but before I trip and fall into it I have once again been looking at some of the fundamental issues around using CMS products – especially the WYSIWYG question again. [Previously I wrote…

  • Digesting the Government Digital Strategy

    Today the Cabinet Office launched the Government-wide digital strategy that marks another step closer to the Martha Lane Fox vision of a ‘digital by default’ government (from where the name of this blog sprung!). There is *alot* to like in this strategy I think – though it does in places closely coincide with my 4Ps…

  • Digital Thirst: Process

    Of the 4Ps I mentioned in my original post this is actually the one that I am finding hardest to define and articulate. Most of my thoughts are about what doesn’t or hasn’t worked rather than a way forward and I am trying to avoid that. Alot of this seems to bleed into the idea…