Ash Mann – The discipline of focus, what makes a digital strategy work:
Good digital strategies aren’t long documents or laundry lists. They’re about ruthless focus – choosing a clear direction and sticking to it, even if that means letting go of attractive ideas.
(via Neilly)
Digital identity and the UK government’s announceability problem, by Richard Pope:
In the search for announcibility, tying it to the issue of immigration, and allowing the language of a singular ‘ID card’ to permeate, the government appeared to abandon the radical incrementalism and replace it with the sort of big bang tech announcement we all hoped were of the past. It also risked creating inertia for those teams in government who are already delivering. The inertia created by competing priorities, combined with a very particular, British, passive approach to calling out those contradictions, is toxic to delivery in the UK civil service.
I newslettered.
Lloyd nicely links to my newsletter but also points out the hideous URLs it produces for the web version. He’s right, but I am not sure what to do about it.
I’ve always been leery of the Jetpack plugin – for some reason I can’t remember – but this article has made me consider reconsidering.
Essex County Council has some excellent guidance around creating forms.