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The Government Digital Service is the UK government’s solution to the issue of ensuring that government services are accessible and usable for citizens online. Quite rightly they have received plaudits for their approach to service design and delivery. This is…
Matt China previously worked in local government, where he championed new ways of working in his authority. Due to recent senior management restructure he is now looking for a new job, preferably with a more ‘agile’ organisation. All offers can…
I was working once for a pretty big organisation, who wanted to start a blog. This was about ten years ago, so for a lot of people blogging was kind of new. Despite the fact that I was working there,…
Hipchat looks a neat tool for those teams with remote workers in particular. Group chat is a fantastic tool for a distributed team because of its persistence. You keep your chat window open all the time, dropping in and out…
A key part of working smarter is the idea of flexible or remote working. One neat way of describing it is that work isn’t a place you go to, it’s what you do. There’s a lot of misunderstanding though about this…
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Your wiki is a dump Mixing the unconference format into a traditional conference Why Companies Fail To Engage Today’s Workforce: The Overwhelmed Employee The Responsive Organization…
So I posed a fair few questions in my last post about email. How about some solutions? Here’s one – inbox zero. Inbox zero is… what? A methodology? A process? A mindset? Who knows. What we do know is that…
I’m loving Scott Berkun‘s The Year Without Pants – an account of the time he spent in startup land working with Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. I’m going to do a full write up at some point, but some bits…
Of all the systems we use at work, we probably spend more time in our email than anything else. I’d honestly say that at least 50% of my work is spent reading and responding to email. I’d wager that for…
Well done to Sarah Hammond, the WorkSmart member who has won our draw. Her prize, if you remember, is a copy of Scott Berkun‘s The Myths of Innovation. Sarah works at the British Library and you can find her on Twitter…
I was chatting the other day to my pal Dave Coplin from Microsoft who told me he was deep into writing a new book. Awesome! It made me go and look back at his previous one, Business Reimagined (free on…
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Can People Collaborate Effectively While Working Remotely? 7 Predications for the Future of Work Startup culture hacks The power of technology for learning and why creating…
Today I was at #barcampnfp – a rather fun unconference for people working in charities and other not (just) for profit organisations. I was flying the flag for TaskSquad, the fantastic youth employment startup that Mary McKenna is leading, and…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: The power of technology for learning and why creating together is better | Helen Milner Barcamp NotForProfits | dxw (I’ll be there representing @tasksquadhq) Digital local government: a future in Google…
I recently came across The Workplace – a question and answer site for people who go to work. It’s built on the Stack Exchange platform – which has considerable success in building knowledge communities, particularly around techy topics. I personally…
Increasingly, following a bit of a chat, it turns out you don’t. I’ve been delivering training on digital tools, including social media, for a fair few years now. I’d like to think I’m quite good at it, and that those…
There was a nice guest post from Doug Belshaw from Mozilla on Brian Kelly’s blog last week. Entitled What Does Working Openly on the Web Mean in Practice?, it told us a bit about Mozilla’s culture of openness and how…
Glassboard is a neat cross platform (iOS, Android, Web) app that helps people to communicate within teams while on the move. You download the app – or use the web version – and create a ‘board’ which is where you…
In this first effort at podcasting, I talk about podcasting. Oh, and audiobooks, and an actual paper book, too. With thanks to Lloyd Davis for the inspiration. Listen using the player below: Or you can: Download the mp3 Subscribe to…
Google has snuck out some rather cool new functionality to its cloud based productivity suite Google Drive. Called add-ons, you can now use them to add extra functionality to your Google Docs and Spreadsheets experience. Here’s a video explaining it…