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Another newsletter went out today: “Teaching agility, not Agile™” Ooooooh: “Open Working 101” Daughter was telling me this morning about dog and cat based ASMR videos, and I said I really don’t think that was what TBL…
It was our son’s graduation yesterday. So proud! But also, how did that happen? I’m so old! On Saturday we watched the new Indiana Jones film. Very silly of course but it did capture some of the fun of the…
Said this a few time this week – you can do amazing work with a good team, good culture, plenty of enthusiasm and terrible tech. With great tech and rubbish everything else, not so much. Have made it onto Bluesky,…
Another newsletter went out this morning: ClassicPress is WordPress like it used to be For years I lived in Evernote. This by Harry McCracken captures some of what made it great I knew vaguely of Vivian Stanshall,…
I just can’t help myself. It’s like a sickness Episode 2 of our daughter Jade’s podcast is out. It’s all about the job of being a social media manager at an agency. It’s good! “Here is how platforms…
Just published my newsletter – a few opinions and a lot of links (and the usual photo of a daft dog) “Reviewing the Local Digital Declaration 5 years on: Update on the discovery project” On reflection, my honest…
(This is a repost of something I posted elsewhere but hadn’t backed up on this blog before. I have backdated the post to the original date, but it’ll probably pop up in places automatically. It’s evergreen content though, so it’s…
A decision I made when I took my current gig at Lambeth was just to do 4 days a week, so I had a day a week to pootle about doing other things. The first of those days is today…
This is a lovely piece by Giles Turnbull and I will be first in the queue for the book when it emerges! “I created Clippy”: I’ve signed up for and downloaded Threads. I don’t like the lack of a…
New newsletter out today, which I have switched to Substack. It does feel like building personal networks through things like email might be the answer to the breakdown of more public social media like Twitter etc Anyway, I would…
Whenever Catherine Howe posts, it’s usually a good idea to read it: More Twitter woes: “So where are we all supposed to go now?” This is a good and challenging read on what even is an online…
The latest ridiculous behaviour from Twitter seems to genuinely be sending the site into a death spiral, which saddens me in a lot of ways. I’ve been on there since the early days, and I’ve built a reasonably sized following…
First day in my new job over. Am enjoying the feeling of getting to know my new surroundings, and using that new job motivation to start various balls rolling. Jukesie on ‘minimum viable unconference’ “Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied…
Quick job update from me: after a fantastic year doing digital culture and capability stuff at Brum, it’s time for me to move on. Next up, I will be supporting Amanda Stevens at Lambeth with digital in social care, as…
Our daughter Jade has launched a podcast with her friend at work. We are super proud of her, and you should definitely check it out and subscribe if you’re interested in what’s up with social media these days I…
Mark O’Neill on AI I sent out an email newsletter yesterday, just containing some of the links I have been sharing in these notes recently. I’m nopt altogether happy using TinyLetter for it, but not sure I can really justify…
I’m trying a tweak to the way I write these notes, in that I have switched from using Obsidian to Simplenote. Main reason for this is that Simplenote has apps across Windows, MacOS and iOS and syncs across them all…
"Why I quit my job at Google to work in local government" The blog post that ‘invented’ hashtags: "Transforming Service Delivery in the Public Sector" (largely US based)
Teignbridge Council are looking for a Head of Digital https://jobs.teignbridge.gov.uk/itlivetdc_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=9431212Ag3&WVID=4966600DE4&LANG=USA There’s a QR code scanner app built into iOS?! Not That Kind of Open: Essex County Council hosted "a generative AI Hackathon" Am really enjoying the Tech…
“Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?” On similar lines: “Bluesky Has Problems” I suspect Twitter will sort itself out before any of these others things manage to take off. This seems interesting: (Background: )