Dave

Dave

On collaboration

Euan Semple writes: I have always said that the first step to real collaboration, as opposed to just having a shared space to stick your unreadable documents, is having the self awareness, the humility, and the courage to admit that…

The shared CDO – putting the team together

So in my last post I discussed the idea of the shared CDO – a chief digital officer who works across a few different organisations to help them transform their services and working practices. One of the first tasks facing…

CDO as a service – the real local GDS?

Emerging technologies and new ways of working bring with them new jobs, and new roles. One of those is the ‘chief digital officer’ or CDO. I’ve always been an advocate of organisations having a senior member of staff who has…

Hello! Is it me you’re looking for?

A quick administrative note. If you can see this post, it means that my blog has successfully rehosted. Apologies for any inconvenience – if you spot anything not working, broken links and so on, please do let me know.

My content curation workflow

Curating content online is a fairly hot topic these days – information overload being what it is, folk tend to like it when someone spends a bit of time picking the wheat from the chaff for them. It doesn’t have to…

Planning digital engagement

I recorded this a little while ago to go alongside some other training and consulting work I was doing at the time. I basically explain how to plan out digital engagement work to ensure it is most likely to succeed,…

Content so good you’d pay for it

I’m a massive fan of the writing of Ben Thompson – and so should you be. The analysis he provides on his blog is superb – and it’s free! Interestingly, he also provides extra content for a fee – a…

Building addictive communities

Rich Millington from Feverbee gave a great talk at the MozCon event on building communities that people actually want to join. Lots in here that I have been discovering myself lately around creating a shared mission, and a sense of…