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What is inside INSIDE GOVERNMENT? #govuk
Last night at a little before 9pm the latest ‘launch’ from GDS Towers took place and professionally this was very much the deliverable I had the most interest in. INSIDE GOVERNMENT (more cap-tastic action!) was formerly known as the ‘Whitehall’ project or occasionally refered to as the ‘corporate publishing platform’ and it is the activity…
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Gov:West goings on
Gov|West the mini-conference I am putting together for the Bath Digital Festival has really come together over the last few days. The plan is to have eight or nine 20 minute case study talks from some smart folk doing cool digital stuff either in or for the public sector with most of the speakers being…
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Learning from the BBC Sport redesign
One of the things I have admired for a while about the BBC Internet team(s) and now the GOV.UK (in caps ‘cos they mean business) is just how much of their thinking and processes they share openly on their blogs. In recent months the GOV.UK blog has been a regular source of answers and inspiration…
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Making sense from chaos
Let me put this out there straight away. I am not an organised person. Far from it. Unlike many friends and colleagues I was spared the compulsive list making gene and things like GTD or worrying about ‘inbox zero‘ are about as far from my day to day concerns as it is possible to get.…
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The Cotweet crisis
For the last year or so we have been using Cotweet at work to allow a small group from different teams to all contribute to our corporate Twitter account. This was a key element of us moving from the RSS powered robo-tweets to some attempt at having a human voice coming through (albeit still a…