Digital by Default

Category: work

  • A ‘responsive’ Review

    One of the things that has changed in the public sector in the recent past is the pressure not to spend money on glossy, printed publications and then distribute them to stakeholders far and wide. The requirement or desire to pubish this information doesn’t go away though and so the pressure shifts to finding the…

  • (the Day Job) Paper producing machine..

    ..is what I seem to have become 🙂 After 9 months in my current job I am finally starting to feel like I am delivering on the possibilities I sold the panel in my interview. At the moment though a considerable amount of this seems to be producing papers – whether they be visions, strategies,…

  • Revisiting the BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

    Back in 2007 I arranged for Tom Loosemore to give the closing keynote at the JISC conference.   At the time Tom was Project Director for BBC2.0 and it was a classic case of inviting someone because I wanted to hear what they had to say 🙂 In my opinion it was a great talk…

  • Wikipedia Workshop (Day Job 2)

    [this is part of my new weekly series of posts focusing on the things I am getting up to at work – basically a new format for my old weeknotes.] In a couple of weeks time my organisation will be running a WikiAcademy for the first time. A small group of staff (a mix of…

  • The Day Job

    Been a while since I actually wrote anything about what I’m actually up to at work – probably since I stopped doing the ‘weeknotes’ so probably nothing much about the (not so) new job. I’ve been working for the MRC eight months now and am finally starting to feel settled and as such am considering…