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The New Boy
So Mike Bracken, former digital boss at Guardian Media Group is the new Executive Director for Digital for the UK government. Welcome, Mike. In times as tough as these for the public sector, it’s a real coup to have recruited … Continue reading
A window on the wormery
Once upon a time, I managed a team who were struggling to crack a tough problem. They needed to improve the dreadful user experience of a major online transaction, but the ‘owners’ of the transaction – a ‘partner’ organisation, in … Continue reading
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The Minister, the Entrepreneur and the Civil Servant: a cautionary tale
I’ve come across this little situation enough times now to make it worth a quick post here. It’s the story of the innovative SME, the minister, and the civil servant. And it’s not exactly a fairytale. The story starts well … Continue reading
Goodbye websites, my old friends
I don’t know what I think about website convergence any more. I used to think it was premature, driven by people without an appreciation for what the web could do, risking crushing small but smart teams doing good work online, … Continue reading
Digital Heroine: Jenny Poole
Sir Phillip Green, efficiency advisor to the government, recently reportedly challenged public sector workers to treat public money as their own. One person who’s been doing this for a while is Jenny Poole, Head of Digital Engagement at the Department … Continue reading
The Problem with WordPress
Linus’ Law says that, given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. It’s one of the paradoxes of open source, community-driven software that we can know it is good on the strength of how much is known about its frailties. Simon … Continue reading
Some definitions
I’m sure others cleverer than me have done this better elsewhere, but as part of some work I’m doing (and as a precursor to potentially revisiting That Venn Diagram on this blog later) I thought I’d try and write down … Continue reading
Digital Hero: Luke Oatham
As part of an occasional series on this blog, I want to introduce you to a few of the digital heroes and heroines doing great work inside the UK public sector. It’s not often my jaw literally drops open while … Continue reading
Where do the good ideas go?
It’s been interesting to see the development of the UK Government’s first major forays into crowdsourcing, in the form of HM Treasury’s Spending Challenge, the drive for cost-saving ideas, and Your Freedom, a mechanism for proposing unnecessary regulation to be … Continue reading
Stimulating informed debate around AV
Six weeks ago, Dave Briggs kicked off a little project which he described as follows: I’m rather interested in the referendum that we are going get get next May in the UK about changing our voting system. It occurs to … Continue reading
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