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An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Some rough notes on local gov and digital
There was a debate raging late last week about the needs of digital in local government (again). I wrote up some thoughts to share with everyone – I was feeling somewhat limited by the 140 character confines of Twitter –…
Published elsewhere: mobile stuff and intranets
Light posting in these parts recently. I’ve been somewhat distracted by the so-far unsuccessful job hunt. I have had a couple of pieces published elsewhere though. Firstly, a post on Comms 2.0 about mobile: The growth in popularity of messaging…
Bits and bobs for Thursday 29 January 2015
An occasional effort to link to interesting things I have seen. Not convinced about the format yet – let me know what you think. One of my current obsessions is around mobile messaging apps. This interview with the CEO of…
Enabling government as a platform?
On Saturday at GovCamp 2015, Mike Bracken announced the enabling strategy, the approach GDS is developing to deliver something they call government as as platform. Here’s the nice, short video that explains it: Now, this is very sensible and it…
The Social Media Exchange is coming up!
I’m really pleased to be helping out my good fried Jude Habib with the Social Media Exchange event, which is coming up early in February. There are still a few places available, so I thought I would let folk…
Bits and bobs for Monday 26 January 2015
An occasional effort to link to interesting things I have seen. Not convinced about the format yet – let me know what you think. The digital democracy report was published this morning by the Speaker’s commission on the topic. If you…
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…
Why Facebook At Work is not the answer to workplace technology
Last week Facebook At Work was announced, a new way for organisations to make use of Facebook as a way of networking staff. The product will allow employees to join a network which could be connected to their personal…
The triumph of the nerds
If you have a few hours to spare, you could do a lot worse than to spend them watching the three episodes that make up Triumph of the Nerds, a 1995 documentary charting the history of the microcomputer industry. From the…
Announcing #virtualgovcamp’s first sponsor – Jadu’s Spacecraft design agency
I’m delighted to say we have our first sponsor on board the good ship VirtualGovCamp, and it’s our friends at Jadu, who are promoting their Spacecraft design agency! Our approach to design is well considered and successful. One size fits…
Learning from Marissa Mayer and Yahoo!
I’ve just finished reading a book about Yahoo! and its current CEO, Marissa Mayer. A fairly slim tome, I got through it in a day on my Kindle. It’s well worth a look for anyone interesting in how technology…
Shared CDO – looking for alignment
A key role for any CDO in an organisation is looking for, and creating, alignment. The obvious one in the digital sphere is looking for alignment between the organisation’s preferred outcomes, and the needs of the people who use its…
Some personal hopes for 2015
I don’t want to call them resolutions – doing so means failure if they don’t come off. However, there are a few things that I hope will happen in the next twelve months. 1. Focus more on writing (or, creating…
Some favourite things from 2014
Here are a few of the things I’ve really enjoyed on the internet in the last 12 months. Some new, some not so new. Hope you find something useful in them! Mobile apps Nuzzel – this does a great job…
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…
The Innovators – lessons from the digital revolution
I’ve just finished a rather excellent book, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson. It takes a wonderfully long term view of digital – starting with Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and ending with Larry and Sergei in more recent times. I…
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…