Digital by Default

Digital by Default

Digitally mature management?

As I have said before I think one of the great achievements of the Government Digital Service, and the report from Martha Lane Fox that spawned it, isn’t the commitment to open source/standards or recruiting such a great team of designers and developers (though they are both great) but the fact that Mike Bracken was…

January 22, 2012
#UKGC12 – User centric

Yesterday I attended the 5th (I think) UK Govcamp at the very swanky Microsoft offices in central London. As usual it was a great day and went a long way to refreshing my passion for the work I do (something that has been waning for a little while). I made a major effort this year…

January 21, 2012
Follow Fridays – Gov special edition

So back in October I did a little post outlining my first four ‘follow Fridays’ for Twitter. I made some vague commitment about doing it again but never got around to it. Until now 🙂 This is a Gov-ish special edition as UKGovcamp is only one week away. There could obviously be many more than…

January 13, 2012
Trying out Trello

At sometime over the Christmas break I followed a link from Twitter (sorry I don’t remember who from) to a blogpost by Joel Spolsky about the new product, Trello, his company Fog Creek was releasing (and also some very interesting anecdotes about his time at M$ working on the original Excel team.) Trello aims to…

January 11, 2012
Getting to grips with Google+

I admit I approached Google+ with a certain amount of nervousness. I *really* disliked Buzz and was happy to see it wither on the vine but was a pretty big fan of Wave and felt like a bit of a muppet when that failed to take off. Also my days of jumping onto every new…

January 8, 2012