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Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Attention, Please! PC Programs to Stave Off Distraction – can technology help you stop wasting time with technology? Oppia – a Google 20% project to “enable…
Yves Morieux gives a really interesting TED talk here on how to reduce the complexity of modern day work. He has six rules to help make this happen: Understand what your colleagues actually do. Remove rules: Reinforce the “integrators” Integrators…
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Nick Jones is Head of Digital and CSR at Visa Europe. Responsible for protecting and improving the reputation of Visa Europe across digital channels owned and earned. Previously he worked in government at Number 10 and the Central Office of Information.…
Stowe Boyd is a great writer on technology and the impact it has on organisational culture. You can follow his blog here, which is updated several times a day with great titbits and articles. He has written a post for…
Collaborative software folk from Cambridge Clinked have produced a nice infographic giving some of the stats and the facts behind the use of social technology in the workplace.
I’m really liking the look of Mightybell as a community platform. The people behind Ning are now starting up this new venture, which seems to incorporate a lot of the thinking of community management experts like Richard Millington at Feverbee.…
Kahootz is a cloud based project collaboration platform, which looks pretty good – and their blog is full of useful stuff. Recently their CEO John Glover posted about “Creating a ‘Digital First’ culture in your public sector organisation“. In it…
I really rather like this video interview with Rod Drury, CEO of the cloud accounting company Xero. I’ve been a happy Xero customer for a few years now – the system makes accounting comprehensible to the non-accountant, which is great!…
Just to let Kind of Digital readers know about a new blog I’ve launched, called WorkSmart. It’s all about how we work in organisations and will cover stuff like use of technology for personal productivity and better team working, and…
I don’t know about you, but I love productivity hacks. One of my favourite bloggers on this topic is David Seah, and as well as offering great insight via his blog, he also shares some beautifully designed templates and forms…
A quick pointer to an interesting project in central government in the UK. It’s looking at redefining the technology used by civil servants to get their jobs done. There are a number of interesting issues around this agenda. The experience…
WorkSmart is a new blog about how we do our jobs. It strikes me that there is a lot going on in terms of building fantastic user interfaces and processes for customers and end users of services – and this…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: An Open Letter to Software Suppliers – 13 Ways to Help the Public Sector to the Cloud – @copley_rich Why the obsession with “coding” misses the point – from @jjn1 “Whatsapp…
At the DH digital champions summit on Tuesday, during the afternoon open space session, an interesting discussion broke out. One among many, I’m sure! Anyway, what was being discussed was the sheer unusability of government systems and processes. Only, not…
I’ve been doing work with local councillors for some time now – helping them see how they can use the internet to better engage with citizens, and communicate with them too. This takes the form of running training workshops usually.…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Delivering alpha performance reporting dashboards | Digital Health Origami – Design prototyping with Quartz Composer (free from Facebook) Daring Fireball: Microsoft, Past and Future – excellent read Splat the rat –…
Or maybe not actually rethinking email, but taking it back to what it was meant to be about… Working with a colleague the other day in a government organisation, I saw him looking for a document, that he was sent…
Sometimes to make collaboration work you need to set some ground rules. It’s easy to say, “let’s start up a google doc!” – and imagine everyone leaping in to give their ideas. But it’s not so simple as that, especially…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Redefining the Digital Divide | @helenmilner The system is failing, hack the system – via @annemcx The Four Freedoms – wonderful piece on #opensource by @photomatt The dangerous appeal of the…