Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Post PRISM

I came across a couple of interesting posts this morning about personal online privacy in a post-PRISM world. http://benrmatthews.com/2013/06/my-privacy-plan/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1g0nzx/after_the_reading_countless_posts_complaining/ To be honest I’m not really sure how effective any of this stuff would be – like the whistleblower Edward Snowden himself suggests the likelihood is that the security/intelligence services are way past this sort…

June 10, 2013
Three of a kind [090613]

What If The Product Is The Service Is The Marketing? Great post from Emer Coleman (recently of GDS) about the changing face of ‘marketing and communications’ in this digital world of ours. I particularly liked this line “if you’re relevant and have standing in the conversation, then things like press releases become pretty irrelevant.” The…

June 9, 2013
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…

June 9, 2013
The un-newspaper

I recently made a pitch to run another Govcamp style event and got the offer of some funding from the UKGovCamp grant programme and have been looking into running that later this year, especially as I’ll be organising my ‘brown bag’ talks at work as well, but while I was doing the research for…

June 7, 2013
52: Week Six

Bit of a roller coaster of a week it has to be said. It finished on a positive note though so I’m clinging on to that. Monday started pretty well. I had the first meeting of all my team leads – well the ones who were in (so design, programme comms, editorial and content management…

June 7, 2013