The worst council website I have ever seen

I’ve been doing this job now for what feels like an awfully long time. As I’ve said before, sometimes I get cranky having to have the same conversations with people about issues I really thought we had all resolved in…

Something has changed recently with the algorithm on LinkedIn, and I have to say I don’t like it much. Am suddenly getting these posts – mostly written by men of a certain age, who have jobs that have things to…

In a conversation this morning it struck me how useful the Local Government Digital Standard might be to those councils going through LGR, trying to get agreement amongst a bunch of different colleagues about priorities, principles, and so on. The…

Although much of what I post about ‘AI’ is sceptical, I am in fact a daily user. Whether it is for helping with technical matters, or sorting out my thinking on some topic or other, I find Google’s Gemini particularly…

Am concerned that my previous post may have sounded like some kind of cry for help. It wasn’t! Everything is fine 🙂

While I have an account on Mastodon, I never look at it – I just lack the bandwidth for another site to check. There are on or two people who post there, though, whose stuff I enjoy and wouldn’t want…

A lot of folk in local government are chewing over the problem of when to transform during LGR, and when to play things safe. My personal take is this: keep the strategy and the vision transformational, but be more cautious…

A little reminder – if you needed one – that I host blogs for free for local government use, whether by councils or individuals, or teams. I like to encourage blogging as a practice – working out in the open…

Like most people, I don’t often need to interact with my local council, and so – given the way I make a living – I tend to take notice when I do. Recently we got an email with an invoice…

I had the thought the other day that an awful lot of time gets wasted in local government digital because of the constant cycle of probably unnecessary change. Here’s an example: new chief digital person comes in, and the first…

Disaggregation doesn’t have to mean total separation!

Following the announcements last week of the shape of local government arrangements in various areas, I’ve had to rethink things a bit. The move is clearly towards merging and empowering districts over centralising into unitary counties. This means an increase…

When Nick and I started planning LGRCamp, we knew we wanted the audience to be local government folk only – plus a smattering of other bits of the public sector who have an interest. Of course there are suppliers who…

There was a time when MacOS was lauded for the quality of its design and user experience.