An online notebook
Last week Facebook At Work was announced, a new way for organisations to make use of Facebook as a way of networking staff. The product will allow employees to join a network which could be connected to their personal Facebook account to help keep things tidy. Members of a network can message one another, … Keep reading
If you have a few hours to spare, you could do a lot worse than to spend them watching the three episodes that make up Triumph of the Nerds, a 1995 documentary charting the history of the microcomputer industry. From the Altair 8800 through the Apple II to IBM’s PC and the dominance of Microsoft, there … Keep reading
I’m delighted to say we have our first sponsor on board the good ship VirtualGovCamp, and it’s our friends at Jadu, who are promoting their Spacecraft design agency! Our approach to design is well considered and successful. One size fits all isn’t the way we work and we recognise every project is different. We start … Keep reading
I’ve just finished reading a book about Yahoo! and its current CEO, Marissa Mayer. A fairly slim tome, I got through it in a day on my Kindle. It’s well worth a look for anyone interesting in how technology companies work (or in this case, don’t) and also how large companies can go around … Keep reading
A key role for any CDO in an organisation is looking for, and creating, alignment. The obvious one in the digital sphere is looking for alignment between the organisation’s preferred outcomes, and the needs of the people who use its services or products. Take channel shift as a fairly obvious example. The outcomes that a … Keep reading