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I was part of an interesting discussion recently where internal communications was being debated. It was revealed that only 40% of staff were engaged with the communications coming from the corporate centre. The conversation focused on what could be done…
I’ve started properly bookmarking again, using Pinboard. If you want to quickly see the latest things I’ve bookmarked, they are in the right hand sidebar on this blog – just below the email subscription options. Alternatively you could look at…
I spent a really enjoyable morning today at Devon County Council, facilitating an internal unconference. It was a senior managers’ get together, a regular event, which normally has a proper agenda and proper presentations. The idea was to turn things…
Lloyd and I recorded another podcast last week.
Here’s the third episode of the podcast, where I chat with Helen Reynolds who helps organisations do great digital stuff at Social for the People, and is an all round good egg. Apologies to our listener, and to Helen, as my Skype connection dropped…
Net neutrality is a very important but sadly also very complicated topic. In this video, US based British comedian John Oliver has a go.
Atlassian have some amusing videos on how not to run agile projects. Enjoy!
I’ve posted a link roundup post over on the dxw site that you might be interested in.
I’m running a day long workshop in London on the topic of blogging – might you be interested? Here’s the skinny: Join Dave Briggs for a day’s practical, hands-on workshop learning how to be a better blogger! There are only…
I’ve blogged about WordPress, plugins and security over on the dxw blog.
I’ve just found a tool that is making some of my biggest Google woes go away! It’s called cloudHQ, and it’s really cool. You give it access to your cloud storage accounts – such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Evernote…
Here’s the second episode of the podcast, where I chat with Carl Haggerty who does digital at Devon County Council, chairs LocalGovDigital and is a keen promoter of reflective practice at unconferences. Here’s a link to Carl’s blog. Here’s a…
I’m currently on a big mission to sort my online life out. I’m simplifying as much as I can. Shutting down sites, consolidating email accounts, deleting old social media guff I never use. One thing I have been putting off…
I’m pleased to be working with my friends from DXW, writing for their blog on the topic of WordPress, with a particularly slant on using it in the public sector. I’ll be covering stuff from the basics right the way…
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…and you really ought to read it. Dave‘s last book, Business Reimagined, was a cracker. Full of insight, humour and delightfully short. I wrote a bit about it over on WorkSmart. His new one is called The Rise of the Humans…
Here’s an idea for those wanting to get some engagement going within your organisation. Send some emails. Actually, let’s be more specific. Send some really good emails. People are inundated with email at work, and adding to the burden might sound…
Inspired by my friends Lloyd and Robert, I’m starting a regular-ish podcast. Here’s the first episode, where I chat with all round comms supremo Dan Slee, off of Comms 2.0. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230441292″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] If you would…
Google’s Chromecast is a neat little device that plugs into the back of a television via the HDMI port, and then is supplied with power through a standards mini-USB charger that you might use with a smartphone. It then enables…
Here’s one you can all help me with. When putting together learning materials – particularly aimed at a public sector audience – what’s the best format to use? More specifically – is there any use in using video? Problems with…