Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Open source and government as a platform

Today in a change to the advertised schedule I was lucky enough to be invited to the ‘World Government Summit on Open Source‘ organised by Drupal folk Acquia just down the road from my hotel. With Tim O’Reilly as the opening keynote and US Government CIO Steven VanRoekel also speaking it was a great opportunity to…

October 11, 2012
OpenCFML for government (and beyond)

I’m very lucky to be spending this week in Washington DC attending a couple of related conferences about CFML and in particular the MuraCMS that I’ll be using for a major project in the coming months. Now I can hear all you Ruby, Django…even .Net and PHP…guys giggling from here. Yes Coldfusion does still exist!…

October 10, 2012
Digital Thirst : People

I think it is easy to get into a state of mind where technology becomes the be all and end all of any digital strategy. The new CMS is going to make everything better….or Twitter is….or that iPhone app you are working on. The reality is though that when push comes to shove it all…

October 4, 2012
eBook experimentation

I’ve been fascinated with eBooks and digital publishing for quite a while now – there are certainly blogposts on here going back a couple of years on the topic. I’ve been particularly interested in whether there was an opportunity to start publishing the kind of corporate publications the public sector have long been so fond…

October 3, 2012
Digital Thirst

[the title is a bit of a joke at my own expense – I can’t pronounce ‘th’ sounds so thirst and first sound the same when I speak!] Like ‘digital by default’ the term ‘digital first’ has become pretty popular shorthand for a particular kind of organisation shift in recent years. The first time I…

September 29, 2012