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My 10 Social Media Principles
These days it seems ‘de rigueur’ to work according to a set of Principles. I blame GDS 🙂 At work I have outsourced the heavy lifting to Aviation House and just follow these https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples but I’ve been thinking a bit about my own, personal principles when it comes to this blog and particularly social media.…
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The Infographic Superhighway
[re-posted from the ONS Digital Publishing blog] One of the first things that struck me when I joined the ONS back in May was the organisational obsession with the concept of the ‘infographic‘. They had found almost universal support amongst our statistical teams as a format for improving the communication of our outputs and…
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How to Write by Ogilvy
This was doing the rounds a little bit on Twitter a couple of days ago – I think it was a tweet from Sarah Richards from GDS where I first spotted it. Reading it I couldn’t help but think that for 8 or 9 of the recommendations on the list memo = blog. I think…
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Weeknote, Where Art Though?
Not that I expect anyone has really noticed but I haven’t written my #weeknote for the last couple of Fridays. I kept it up for six months but to be honest I have started to find it more difficult recently. A couple of things I am working on aren’t really shareable until the new year,…
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10 things only Bristolians visiting London will understand
Inspired by the UsVsTh3m post 🙂 You thought your accent was barely noticeable, but to people in London you’re basically Ian Holloway I say this as someone with an accent that makes his seem like Prince Charles! 2. And if you have a genuinely broad accent, you have to say everything twice so people understand Especially London…