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Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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daveslist

Did you know I have an email newsletter? You probably do, and are fed up of me going on about it. Sorry. It’s called Daveslist, and you can sign up for it at daveslist.io. The newsletter is basically a list…

Amazon WorkSpaces

As well as being the world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon is also one of the main providers of cloud based computing services. They offer a dizzying array of different services and platforms, enabling anyone with a credit card to get access…

Try Doorbell

No, really. try it. Try Doorbell is a fantastic podcast by my friends Robert Brook and Lloyd Davis. It’s a great listen – some tech, some culture, some wittering. Here’s the feed URL so you can subscribe in your favourite…

Steve Jobs in 1983

Fasincating listening. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62010118″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]

A few changes in these parts

Since work is now WorkSmart and I am retiring Kind of Digital as a professional thing, I thought it was time to sort out my blog. After all, kindofdigital.com was once davepress.net and before that many incarnations over the years…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Tools for ideation and problem solving: Part 1 21st Century public service – is it a thing? « @Podnosh Autodesk 123D Design – free 3D printing design software Data, information, knowledge…

Five for (Good) Friday – 18 April 2014

Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. On a quest for the future of enterprise collaboration The best training ever The Right Mix – review of task management apps Socialogy Interview: Anne Marie…

The rise of enterprise social networks

Great talk here from the Google Atmosphere conference by Rachel Miller, author of the excellent All Things IC blog. She talks about the ways social is being used within organisations to transform the way organisations communicate and get stuff done.…

Developing a digital organisation

I published a post today on the Department of Health’s Digital Health blog about the work I am doing there building digital capability across the organisation Here’s a quick snippet: To my mind there needs to be a three pronged…

Founders at Work

Am currently reading, and very much enjoying Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator. It’s basically lots of interviews with founders of companies that were once startups about what life was like in the early days. The book’s blurb sells it…

Markup rules

I like to use plain text when I can. Plain text is just text without any formatting, which you edit with an app called a text editor, like Notepad on Windows or TextWrangler on a Mac. It’s pretty much a…

Collaboration – 10 steps to success

Digital tools provide great ways to collaborate online. Whether working with a smallish team to co-create a document, or engaging the wisdom of the crowd to build a list of ideas, the net allows us to work with people at…

Five for Friday – 11 April 2014

Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Dancing Giants: How Cisco Innovates How to write an internal communication strategy How To Convince Your Boss To Try New Things Tips for starting a podcast…