Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Power to the people

Last year I read a lot more of I guess you’d call ‘business books’. I’ve always bought my share of them but actually getting around to reading them was a whole different thing! Three of them were offering insights in to some of the most influential companies of the internet age (Pixar, Amazon and Google)…

February 1, 2015
A Fistful of Links (1)

I was going to do this as a newsletter – that seems to be the thing to do these days but I do fear that is the new tree falls in a forest conundrum : If you write a newsletter and nobody subscribes did it really send. So I know at least one or two…

February 1, 2015
Social Media Diet

I always overload myself with challenges in January – it is a scatter gun approach – I work on the basis if I try loads of things something might sneak through and stick for the month. This year was no exception. I tried the following; – No drinking [success] – Stay clean shaven [fail] –…

January 31, 2015
January [month note]

After the roller coaster ride that was November and December with the launch of the project that had consumed me for six months January has seemed a hard slog. Perhaps it is always this tough and some kind of built in self-protection system just makes you forget how bad it is though from year to…

January 30, 2015
Exciting times…new opportunities.

It is an exciting time to be working in digital Government. The influence of GDS can increasingly be seen worldwide and closer to home centres of excellence are moving beyond Holborn to Newcastle, Swansea and beyond. In the UK Paul Shetler, CDO at the Ministry of Justice, wrote eloquently about why this work is so…

January 27, 2015