Digital by Default

July 12, 2012

Pimping Postling

Just a short post to say after considerable research and alot of false starts I have finally settled on a replacement for CoTweet. I originally wrote about this back in February and since then have experimented with a few tools but none quite fitted our needs. Either they were too expensive, too complex or both!…

July 6, 2012

A Twitter life…well half decade :)

So this week I received this out of the blue on Twitter; To be honest its a bit of a sham – like alot of people I signed up without really much of a clue about the service back then and after sending the standard first tweet.. ..I followed a few people and really just…

July 2, 2012

Pre-owned principles for social media

The last few weeks it seems circumstances been converging in a way that has been forcing me to refresh my thinking around social media in a work context. Stephen and Tim both wrote posts that got the gears turning, I was also invited to speak about social media to a new audience and alongside the…

June 21, 2012

One small step for the web, one giant leap for the organisation

Today is a good day. I’ve written before about the need to celebrate the little wins and I am doing that again. This time though it doesn’t feel that little. It feels like a major achievement. Which is weird to say the least. Today we launched a blog for our organisation. This isn’t my first…

June 16, 2012

New kind of [civic] CTO?

Recently I’ve found myself really quite fascinated by the evolving definition of the CTO role in the US public sector. My interest was kicked off by some further reading about the Lean Startup stuff and in particular this post about Open Innovation in DC. That led to me following a tweet from @dominiccampbell [who as…