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Lloyd and Dave talk blogging
Lloyd Davis and I recorded another podcast recently, on the topic of blogging. Here’s Lloyd’s post with some helpful links to follow up on.
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An online notebook
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An online notebook
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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…
Making online communities commercially sustainable
This is a conversation I get into quite a lot, and I’ve been prompted to blog about it by a couple of emails I have recently received from the team behind the Knowledge Hub. A bit of background, for those…
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…
Owen Barder on taking control of email
I’ve just come across this post from Owen Barder, from back in 2012, providing his tips on managing email a bit more effectively. Owen has a triage system for email which is based on four D’s: Deal with it –…
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…
Writing apps – the software I use to get words on a page
I probably think about this sort of thing far more than I should – after all, doesn’t everyone just use Word? – but I like playing with different tools for writing. After all, for me, typing words into a computer…
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…
Why digital capability (or comfort) matters
I spend a lot of my time at the moment talking about digital capability. To my mind, this means the ability of people throughout an organisation to make the most of the opportunities offered by digital technology. Capability is less…
Dropbox launches a swathe of new features
Some interesting developments from Dropbox – everyone’s (well, most people’s) favourite cloud storage/backup/sharing tool. Firstly, a new app called Carousel, which is a photo gallery app. According to the blurb, it …combines the photos in your Dropbox with the photos…
Digital transformation report from Altimeter
A quick post as I am just back from a short break with the family and didn’t have anything lined up to publish today! Altimeter Group have just published a really interesting report called Digital Transformation: Why and How Companies are…
Asana – smart group task management
I’ve just got into using Asana to manage my projects, thanks to a tip from Simon Booth-Lucking at Claremont Communications. It’s a great web-based task manager. What I really like about it is that it work on two levels –…
Engaging colleagues with new online tools
Getting people to actually use new tools in the workplace is pretty hard. No matter how cool your new social platform is, your colleagues (except for the super keen) won’t suddenly leap into using it. Instead, you need to think…
Five for Friday – 4 April 2014
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Google Chromebooks at work in the fragmented PC era How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago A Brief Guide To Selecting…
A GDS approach to internal systems? Please?
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…