Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Socialnomics video: “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”

    Apparently that famous quote was originally by Benjamin Disraeli and was just made famous by Mark Twain, so that covers my bit of learning for the day 🙂 This video (found thanks to Mia on Twitter) throws an awful lot of unverified stats at you in a very short time but for the most part…

  • The Web Moneypit

    I have been following with interest the story of the Birmingham City Council website that is coming in at a bargain £2.8 million and a mere three and a half years late!  I haven’t read anything that really justifies a disaster of this magnitude and the story of a CMS that ‘officials discovered the software…

  • British Armed Forces embrace social web

    So it appears (via Mashable) that the Ministry of Defence  has released some guidance that rather than ban the use of social media (which is what the US Marines apparently did recently) actually actively encourage troops to do so within reason.  The guidance is somewhat remarkable in the fact that it demonstrates a high level…

  • Becta one pager..

    These are some notes from the presentation (no slides) I had to give as part of my interview at Becta; reading it now I’m a little disappointed with it – certainly not my best work but it does cover some of my thinking about what I’d like to do. That said it does amazingly skip…

  • Moving to Becta

    So apparently it is that time of year again and time for me to make another major decision about my professional future that causes sleepless nights. After almost exactly a year at Jiva I have resigned and will be moving to Becta as Head of e-Communications in a little over a month. I’m sure most…