A Tuesday posting but I don’t suppose anybody minds – most of this was written last week though, promise.
This week’s worky highlights:
- The LGR DDaT playbook is on the cusp of release, which is very exciting. It’ll be nice to be involved in getting a project out of the door for the Local Digital folk, and hopefully one we can keep iterating and improving on for some time.
- Good day in the office for Luton, interviewing candidates for a Head of Service role. Lots of great conversations and met some lovely people with so many ideas. We could have hired almost everyone, which was a really nice feeling but gave us a difficult choice to make!
- Also in Luton news, I handed over the reigns of managing the blog to Nova in the web team, who seems reasonably pleased about it. Am also hoping to use the blog as a means of “trying out” some product approaches within the team in a relatively low risk environment.
- Skillstats keeps progressing, with two more organisations starting the process to come on board and one new demo done.
Not really work stuff:
- Some lovely catchups during the week, including Lisa Trickey, Anita Flavell, Clare Evans, Joe Cole, Ben Cheetham – and probably others (sorry I have forgotten you).
- I started the process of organising the design and print of one of those pop up banners you see at conferences, for Skillstats. This is some way out of my comfort zone.
- I find myself getting a bit annoyed with all the noise there is at the moment about digital in local government. I think a lot of it is unhelpful! Once more I feel the urge to write down somewhere What I Think About This Sort of Thing.
Media consumption:
- Really enjoying Until I Find You but boy, is it long.
- Started the latest series of The Apprentice and the first episode reached such levels of cringe that my stomach was in knots for hours afterwards.
- Board games: played 7 Wonders – a christmas present from Mrs Briggs – for the first time and enjoyed it hugely. Also Splendour: Duel which is way more mentally taxing that the 3+ player version!
We also took a family day out for a tramp round the grounds of Oxburgh Hall, which was very nice for blowing away some cobwebs, and quality family time.
