How much does your technology define what you do?

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 often that is actually the case? I’d argue that for many organisations, with legacy infrastructure … Keep reading

Interesting publications on design, technology and change for ‘good’

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 a less clumsy way of describing these organisations? I think under the last Labour government, … Keep reading

Our strategy for digital transformation

I recently gave a brief talk on our digital strategy at Adur and Worthing. Here are the (rather dull) slides, in case they are useful. Important to note that only one of the five key themes are anything to do with technology! [slideshare id=55264642&doc=davebriggs-for-southwark-151118184242-lva1-app6891]

Rehosting podcasts

Last year I recorded a bunch of podcasts that people seemed to enjoy. They were hosted on a service that needed paying for, and when I stopped paying, they dropped off the internet! Oh no! So, have rehosted them on Soundcloud, which is free. I’ll go back over the original posts and update them when … Keep reading

Eleven years a blogger

According to the archive on this site, I’ve been writing this blog for eleven years today – since September 2004. This is the 2,646th post and there have been 4,263 comments on them over the years. Lots has changed in that time, personally and professionally. It’s fair to say that I wouldn’t be where I … Keep reading