Digital by Default

Category: work

  • The wonderful world of Webtrends…

    I have spent the last day and a half taking part in a rather compressed training course explaining the intricacies of the Webtrends web analytics tool. When I started out working on the web backs in the mists of time (1998ish) Webtrends were already the major player in the pretty new market for web analytics…

  • CMS-free seed

    When I was reading about the launch of the new Healthcare.gov site and the very GDS approach they have taken I found myself taking a closer look at the company credited with driving the development work. Development Seed are a particularly interesting company for me – not only are they deep in to data visualisation…

  • Open for business

    So over at the day job we continue to get put through the ringer a little bit. The latest media moment was from City AM (a strange article that had some completely valid points amongst some very strange observations.) Since I started I have been determined that we would work in the open and that…

  • A being in search of meaning

    The guys at GDS have blogged today about the work they are undertaking in improving their internal search. This is of particular interest to me as very recently an eminent economist/journalist stated that the ONS search “was like Google on an acid trip“. This may be somewhat harsh but it is safe to say that…

  • Frying pan…meet fire

    I don’t mind a challenge. In fact professionally it is safe to say I seek them out. The simple fact I made a conscious decision to try and carve out a career as a digital strategist in the public sector was (pre-GDS) a pretty major challenge in of itself. But…but… sometimes I miss stacking shelves…