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G-Cloud and the end of the #unacceptable
This talk from Chris Chant, who is leading the Governments G-Cloud initiative, has been around a few weeks now (and has even spawned its own #unacceptable hashtag) but it remains a powerful indictment of the state of IT in the public sector and from a personal point of view it could almost be talking about…
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Reflections on #mozfest
This weekend past in a building resembling a Borg cube (landed next to a 50’s flying saucer) a remarkable group of people from all corners of the globe came together to celebrate what it means to be a ‘web maker’. This was the second Mozilla Festival (though it has had a bit of a rebrand…
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Exploring the Storyverse – Checking out Small Demons
I followed a link from Twitter (via @danbri I think) at some point over the weekend to a new website – pretty much just based on the ‘strapline’; Welcome to the Storyverse. Small Demons is an interesting (and very beautiful) website that aims pull out all those ‘real world’ details from your favourite novels and…
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First Four Follow Fridays #ff
Follow Friday has been around on Twitter since the early days but I have never really bothered – in fact I can’t remember ever taking part (but there is every chance I did once or twice in the early days I guess.) That said I have been realising again recently how much I lean on…
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GDS on the hunt for Product Managers
OK lets be honest someone at GDS is having some kind of laugh with me and planting subliminal messages or something. Just a few days after my writing a post saying I wanted to identify some training opportunities to focus more on being a public sector Product Manager (and almost exactly a year since I…