Category: work

  • The new (digital) guvnor

    The new Executive Director of Digital Efficiency and Reform Group, Cabinet Office was announced today and it has caused quite a positive ripple in my corner of the Twitter-sphere. Mike Bracken, most recently the Digital Development Director at the Guardian, has been appointed and if his online contributions and the words of colleagues are anything…

  • Describing a Designer..

    So I have a question for my more designery friends out there on the social web 🙂 It seems likely that I’ll soon be recruiting for a Designer to join me here in sunny Swindon. The thing is the job is moving from an almost entirely print based focus to mostly digital with some print…

  • Senior Press Officer at the MRC job

    Due to the current Gov restrictions we can only employ current or recent ‘public sector’ employees – but the job is pretty well hidden even from those of us with the best Google-fu so I thought I’d post the details here.. Iit is a perm job for a pretty great organisation (though I am biased!)..…

  • The Unveiling of #Alphagov

    As my favourite 20th century philosopher once said; Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Bueller, F – 1986 So despite nominally being on annual leave today I was catching up on my Google Reader and scanning my Twitter feed and so was…

  • Seeking Open Content Management Systems

    So after a couple of years of strictly being a CMS user it looks likely that 2011 will be the year I get properly sucked back into the web content management system(s) black hole. There is every chance I’ll be leading a project to implement a new CMS and subsequently take the opportunity to refresh…