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An online notebook
I’m really pleased to be helping out my good fried Jude Habib with the Social Media Exchange event, which is coming up early in February. There are still a few places available, so I thought I would let folk…
An occasional effort to link to interesting things I have seen. Not convinced about the format yet – let me know what you think. The digital democracy report was published this morning by the Speaker’s commission on the topic. If you…
Bit navel-gazey this post, but bear with me, and I would love your feedback. So, as mentioned previously, I am looking for a job. The main reason for this is that I want to be able to focus on one…
Last week Facebook At Work was announced, a new way for organisations to make use of Facebook as a way of networking staff. The product will allow employees to join a network which could be connected to their personal…
If you have a few hours to spare, you could do a lot worse than to spend them watching the three episodes that make up Triumph of the Nerds, a 1995 documentary charting the history of the microcomputer industry. From the…
I’m delighted to say we have our first sponsor on board the good ship VirtualGovCamp, and it’s our friends at Jadu, who are promoting their Spacecraft design agency! Our approach to design is well considered and successful. One size fits…
I’ve just finished reading a book about Yahoo! and its current CEO, Marissa Mayer. A fairly slim tome, I got through it in a day on my Kindle. It’s well worth a look for anyone interesting in how technology…
A key role for any CDO in an organisation is looking for, and creating, alignment. The obvious one in the digital sphere is looking for alignment between the organisation’s preferred outcomes, and the needs of the people who use its…
I don’t want to call them resolutions – doing so means failure if they don’t come off. However, there are a few things that I hope will happen in the next twelve months. 1. Focus more on writing (or, creating…
Here are a few of the things I’ve really enjoyed on the internet in the last 12 months. Some new, some not so new. Hope you find something useful in them! Mobile apps Nuzzel – this does a great job…
After a brief hiatus, here’s another post on the idea of the shared chief digital officer. The others are here. So, what does a shared CDO look and sound like? Firstly, perhaps it’s a good idea to say what the…
I’ve just finished a rather excellent book, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson. It takes a wonderfully long term view of digital – starting with Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and ending with Larry and Sergei in more recent times. I…
Euan Semple writes: I have always said that the first step to real collaboration, as opposed to just having a shared space to stick your unreadable documents, is having the self awareness, the humility, and the courage to admit that…
So in my last post I discussed the idea of the shared CDO – a chief digital officer who works across a few different organisations to help them transform their services and working practices. One of the first tasks facing…
Emerging technologies and new ways of working bring with them new jobs, and new roles. One of those is the ‘chief digital officer’ or CDO. I’ve always been an advocate of organisations having a senior member of staff who has…
A quick administrative note. If you can see this post, it means that my blog has successfully rehosted. Apologies for any inconvenience – if you spot anything not working, broken links and so on, please do let me know.
Curating content online is a fairly hot topic these days – information overload being what it is, folk tend to like it when someone spends a bit of time picking the wheat from the chaff for them. It doesn’t have to…
I recorded this a little while ago to go alongside some other training and consulting work I was doing at the time. I basically explain how to plan out digital engagement work to ensure it is most likely to succeed,…
I’m a massive fan of the writing of Ben Thompson – and so should you be. The analysis he provides on his blog is superb – and it’s free! Interestingly, he also provides extra content for a fee – a…
I had a good time presenting a webinar this morning about managing online communities. As always, I recorded the whole thing for your infotainment: