This started off as a daily not for Monday, and has been sat in draft all week as I add more and more to it…
Had a proper chance to watch this and read about it – “Place-Based Public Service Budgets: Making Public Money Work Better for Communities”. Nice bit of big picture thinking around local public services. We need more of this sort of thing.
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join. No more invite codes! It’s like Twitter used to be. See you there?
This is rather lovely from dxw – “Content design: the very first step”.
Looking at Beehiiv as a potential Substack replacement. That spelling though, yikes.
Talking of which, I sent out the first newsletter of the year this week.
Resetting digital government – this piece from Jerry Fishenden has attracted a lot of attention.
In Neil’s recent week note, he linked to a bunch of interesting approaches:
- Kano model
- Three Horizons Framework
- Services and content that are useful, usable and used: who wouldn’t want that?
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany.
This is an interesting piece about YouTube and how content creators chase the revenue, resulting in a worse experience for viewers, and how this is resonant of the way the web went.
Nice video from Giles Turnbull, giving a talk to folk from the state government in British Columbia about using the human voice in communication.