Digital by Default

January 31, 2014

Social Media Principles in Practice

I’ve been a reasonably heavy user of social media pretty much from day one. I was an early advocate of using it as a comms channel, in the workplace and have written various guidelines, policies and strategies about how best to make use of it. The funny thing is that over the years I have…

January 29, 2014

The Pyriten Age of TV

Ignite Cardiff — January 29th 2014 This is what my talk was supposed to say — god knows what I did end up babbling about ☺ Depending on what you read you’ll be told it is a Golden Age. Not of philosophy, science or art. No. It is a golden age of television. It started with HBO and the rise of…

January 26, 2014

#ukgc14 Corridor conferencing

So yesterday was the latest instalment of the Govcamp story. From humble(ish) beginnings it had grown to a point it found a home at the heart of London political establishment. City Hall. There is no doubt that this was a lovely venue. A pain in the arse to get to from Paddington but lovely nonetheless.…

January 20, 2014

Jelly wobbles

Sharon O’Dea has written an interesting piece on why Jelly has failed to really set (see what I did there!) I agree and I also uninstalled the app pretty sharpish. For pretty much the same reasons (though probably I was as annoyed by the hipster-business-weasel-words Biz Stone has been spouting as by the brands.) I…

January 18, 2014

The Name Game

I’m still planning on running the event I blogged about back in November. Thanks to Zak it looks like we might have a venue and a number of people have been in touch offering support of one kind or another so I think it is doable. I have been iterating on the idea a bit…