An online notebook
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An online notebook
Five more nuggets of interest I’ve spotted this week: Jessica Lessin built a business to prove information doesn’t have to be free – great podcast about the different models emerging for journalism online. The Information is a great site, by the…
Am going to try and get a quick link roundup post out every Friday if I can, pointing out some interesting stuff I’ve seen during the week. Management is not about asking people to do stuff – really interesting article…
As part of the work putting together a Technology Strategy (think IT + digital) for my current employer, I came up with six principles of good technology. The idea is that each of these principles must be met by any…
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? It’s hard when thinking about the things we do to scratch out a living not to recall Larkin’s words about the manner in which work can dominate our lives.…
Here’s an update on the kit and software I’m using on a daily basis, just in case it’s of use. My main computer is an 11” Macbook Air. It has the i7 processor and 8gb of RAM and is the…
A quick note to say that this weekend I wrote up a newsletter for the first time since late 2014. I scheduled it to be published earlier today. If you’d like to see what was in it, you can read…
Michael Coté has written an excellent post describing seven anti-patterns of behaviour in big organisations. Number six is a particularly egregious crime, in my view: Pay people to ignore them — BigCo’s love hiring new employees, paying them well, and then rarely listening…
Very briefly, West Sussex County Council and FutureGov are hacking the library in Worthing next month. I’ve written a bit about it on the Adur and Worthing Councils digital blog, in case you’re interested.
A fairly quick thought this, but one than keeps occurring to me. It feels like a self evident truth that the technology an organisation uses should follow that organisation’s purpose, and not the other way around, but I wonder how…
I’m pulling together a list of interesting, thought-provoking reading on how design, technology and change (the three things that, for me, define ‘digital’) can help organisations that work in the community, voluntary, charity, non-profit, social enterprise type space. Is there…