Local authorities that blog
This is a living list post where I am keeping a note of all the active blogs run by local authorities. If you have any to suggest that I don’t have listed, please let me know!
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Creating simple user personas
Personas are a great place to start with user centred design, particularly if the whole practice is new to your organisation. This is because they can provide a quick and cheap way of ensuring your project puts the different types…
Monthnote January 2021
A new year, a new attempt to return to semi-regular blogging. I’m trying to post little things often, rather than getting trapped into writing long posts that never get finished or published. You may have noticed I posted a video…
LINK: “Blogging is most certainly not dead”
Social media is as compelling as ever, but people are increasingly souring on the surveillance state Skinner boxes like Facebook and Twitter. Decentralized media like blogs and newsletters are looking better and better these days… Original:
Publishing stuff
One of the things I love about the internet most is the fact that it puts the power to publish into the hands of pretty much anybody. There are many ways of doing it these days, whether by using a…
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…
Post-post-bureaucrat
I’ve always rather liked the title of Steph’s blog and how he gives us occasional updates on how his life outside of the government machine is going. His post-bureaucrat life seems to be going really well. I left government as…
RBDB – a new podcast
I’ve started up a new – hopefully weekly – podcast with my friend Robert. If you like long, rambling conversations about not an awful lot, you’re going to love this. Listen to the first episode here: You can subscribe…
Could I make my blog my livelihood?
Bit navel-gazey this post, but bear with me, and I would love your feedback. So, as mentioned previously, I am looking for a job. The main reason for this is that I want to be able to focus on one…
What attributes does a shared CDO need?
After a brief hiatus, here’s another post on the idea of the shared chief digital officer. The others are here. So, what does a shared CDO look and sound like? Firstly, perhaps it’s a good idea to say what the…