January has felt like a looooong month, and I haven’t really enjoyed it. Doesn’t feel like I am remotely up to speed after the festive break, still! So tired. So very tired.
This week’s worky highlights:
- Getting some of the info-gov stuff sorted for clients using Skillstats – DPIAs and that sort of thing. Slightly dull but really important.
- We are ever closer to the launch of the LGR DDaT Playbook, so that is fun. Looking forward to finding out what people make of it, and what they think we ought to work on next.
- Plenty of signups happening for LGRCamp, which is nice to see.
- Had a lovely meetup of the LocaliseLive! crowd. Heard some great stories of how different councils are making use of technology in a quiet, efficient but innovative way.
- Nice chat with Neilly and his colleagues at the BFI to see if they could use Skillstats to help them baseline their various digital capability building efforts.
Not really work stuff:
- Managed to go a week with just posting on this blog and not tweaking anything on it, which is, I think, a result.
- Chatted with some learning and development folk reminded me of the really good bit of Learning Pool when I worked there some 15 years ago: the catalogue of shared e-learning that councils had access to. LP is a very different beast now and not much interested in local gov, which is a shame. More of a shame is that there are now few councils sharing this kind of content and instead having to but it individually or create it themselves. Someone (huh) should bring the shared library back!
- Nick reminded me of the existence of GovGroups, and I gave it a quick spring clean. Worth checking out if you need a simple online group for something.
Media consumption:
- We had never watched CItizen Kane so have started that. Also halfway through Netflix Damon/Affleck number The Rip which I am liking more than anyone else.
- Now that the new series of Traitors has finished, we have started watching it, because binging.
- Have started Until I find You by John Irving. I think I have read it before, as bits feel familiar, but that could just be the usual Irving wrestling, unreliable memory, weird sex, odd family dynamics stuff. It’s good, but then I really like his stuff.