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10 mistakes nobody needs to make again
Love this slide deck talking about lessons learned by a tech startup entrepreneur. [slideshare id=9628635&doc=10thingsivedonewrongennovation-111010061148-phpapp02]
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Why be a councillor?
Pretty damning stuff from Cllr Roger Gambba-Jones: If somebody was to ask me about becoming a councillor nowadays, I’m not sure what I would tell them were the benefits of doing so and I don’t mean to the councillor. Government…
Podcast episode 5 – Anne McCrossan
Here’s my fifth podcast. This is becoming a thing! I’m joined in this episode by Anne McCrossan, who runs Visceral Business. Anne’s thing is getting organisations perform as genuinely social businesses. Here’s a link to download the original mp3…
LocalGovCamp 2014 thoughts #5 – tools
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. There’s a kitbag of tools and approaches that can be used to tackle the problems facing us.…
LocalGovCamp 2014 thoughts #4 – communities
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. Communities always come up a lot, in terms of engagement and also new methods of service delivery.…
LocalGovCamp 2014 thoughts #3 – collaboration is key
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. Mary McKenna brilliantly facilitated an excellent discussion on collaboration – why it is needed, why it hasn’t…
LocalGovCamp 2014 thoughts #2 – don’t panic
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. Another thread of discussion was around – as it often is – how do we engage more…
LocalGovCamp 2014 thoughts #1- culture
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. Lot and lots of discussion about culture and culture change. This discussion has been going on since…
Another WordPress blog post at dxw
I’ve blogged over at dxw on the topic of customising your WordPress dashboard with screen options.
Podcasts you might like
As well as making my own podcast, I also love listening to those created by other people. Here are some of my favourites – maybe you will like them too! Try Doorbell Robert Brook and Lloyd Davis chanter on about…
Problogging
I’m hugely envious of folks like Shawn Blanc and Ben Thompson. Their job is their blogs! How lucky is that? This year I’ve really got into the content-producing swing of things – dunno if you’ve noticed. With this blog settled…
Recording podcasts
A few people have asked how I go about recording my podcast. So I don’t need to keep repeating myself, I thought it worthwhile to write it up here. Skype So, the format of my podcast is usual an interview,…
Podcast episode 4 – Andy Mabbett
Here’s the fourth episode of the podcast, where I chat with Andy Mabbett, twitcher birder extraordinaire and Wikipedian par excellence. He’s also done a bit of web work in local government. Here’s a link to download the original mp3 file if…
Don’t try to delight the undelightable
With reference to my previous post, I was intrigued to see this pop up via Seth Godin: If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
Where should internal communications efforts be focused?
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…
Bookmarking
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…
Challenges facing local government
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…
Another podcast with Lloyd
Lloyd and I recorded another podcast last week.
Podcast episode 3 – Helen Reynolds
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…
John Oliver explains net neutrality
Net neutrality is a very important but sadly also very complicated topic. In this video, US based British comedian John Oliver has a go.