Digital by Default

Tag: Digital

  • Going viral: the digitalisation of our iconic institutions

    Like most people of a certain vintage in a digital-ish profession I went through a stage where Techcrunch was my bible and I desperately wanted to be a part of a successful startup. In the end I spent a year at a [not] successful example and learned loads — not least that it wasn’t the world for…

  • The Book of GDS (and beyond)

    A couple of tweets this week led to me buying ‘The Book of OpenStreetmap’ — a collection of interviews from founding contributors to OSM by the original founder Steve Coast. It is an interesting read but I found it even more interesting for reasons outside of the content. I really want to write a book. Not for…

  • 10 job vacancies I found interesting this week

    1 November 2015 Director of DigitalGovernment Digital ServiceLondon Portfolio Manager(s)Open Knowledge FoundationRemote Senior Programme Manager (Digital Education Programme)NestaLondon Innovation ExecutiveOrdnance SurveySouthampton Head of DigitalNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Digital Product ManagerTfLLondon Digital DirectorThe National ArchivesLondon Digital Product DesignerFuturelearnLondon User ResearcherCo-operative Group DigitalManchester Senior Digital Product ManagerIOP PublishingBristol

  • Balls, bibs and cones

    I was recently accused (in the nicest possible way) of being a ‘digital leader’. This is a kind of catch all senior role/position that has grown in currency in the last year or so, particularly in and around the civil service. Shortly before the GDS exodus Mike Bracken wrote a post about if you ‘Hire…