Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Making the case for a FOSS CMS

    Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a project to make the case for using an open source CMS for a big project and I thought I’d share some of the work I’ve been doing here – nit sure how helpful it would be for anyone else though! The big glaring…

  • What is inside INSIDE GOVERNMENT? #govuk

    Last night at a little before 9pm the latest ‘launch’ from GDS Towers took place and professionally this was very much the deliverable I had the most interest in. INSIDE GOVERNMENT (more cap-tastic action!) was formerly known as the ‘Whitehall’ project or occasionally refered to as the ‘corporate publishing platform’ and it is the activity…

  • Introducing #govwest

    Gov West is a halfday event on March 20th taking place as a part of the Bath Digital Festival that Mr Ellis is organising. It will consist of several short (20 mins-ish), case study talks from digital leaders in the public sector with a particular focus on speakers from the Westcountry. It is not an…

  • Trying out Trello

    At sometime over the Christmas break I followed a link from Twitter (sorry I don’t remember who from) to a blogpost by Joel Spolsky about the new product, Trello, his company Fog Creek was releasing (and also some very interesting anecdotes about his time at M$ working on the original Excel team.) Trello aims to…

  • Getting to grips with Google+

    I admit I approached Google+ with a certain amount of nervousness. I *really* disliked Buzz and was happy to see it wither on the vine but was a pretty big fan of Wave and felt like a bit of a muppet when that failed to take off. Also my days of jumping onto every new…