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📅 Daily note for 28 June 2024
I’m back! First daily note in a while. Hope you are as pleased with me as I am 😁 The blog has been rehosted, meaning I can save a bit of money shutting down an old hosting account. Have also…
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An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
🧑💻 Movements
I have rehosted this blog, which seems to have worked ok. Well, if you’re reading this, it must have! One side effect is that anyone subscribed to the RSS feed may well have suddenly received a bunch of old posts…
📖 What could a “Local Government Centre for Digital Technology” actually do? 🤔
(Previously published on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.) In the LGA’s recently published white paper on the future of local government, there’s a very interesting line about digital. Just the one line, admittedly, but I think it is fair to say that it is doing…
🔗 Some links and stuff
I sent out a newsletter today, which featured some links that I’ve pasted below for posterity. However I’ve realised that I’ve written a few pieces on LinkedIn etc that I haven’t also published here, so will sort that out in…
📖 Where can councils start sharing effectively?
(Previously published on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.) Following on from previous posts during the Great Local GDS Flurry from a few weeks ago (has everyone else moved on? Well I haven’t!), I thought I would follow up on one…
🔗 Some links I’ve spotted recently
I sent out a newsletter today and included these links at the bottom. Popping them here for posterity…
📖 Countering the AI hype
This is a re-publish of a thing that went on LinkedIn, my newsletter, and the Digital Leaders newsletter. I’ve backdated the published date on this post to reflect this. Summary: all this tech called ‘AI’ is genuinely exciting. But the…
📅 Weekly note for 5-9 February 2024
This started off as a daily not for Monday, and has been sat in draft all week as I add more and more to it… Had a proper chance to watch this and read about it – “Place-Based Public Service…
📺 Better decision making about digital
I’ve made a little video about making better decisions about digital work – basically governance but, like, not rubbish: You can download the slides, if you like. Also: please book on my course if you’d like to join me in…
Daily note for 22 January 2024
I am running a 6 week online course about making a success of digital in your organisation. You can find out more and book on the SensibleTech website. Neil Lawrence’s GovCamp write up (Medium, meh). AI, data, and public services…
Daily note for 19 January 2024
A minor innovation in these daily notes – pulling out the occasional quote from some of the links, and then using a horizontal line to provide some separation. Also using the lines to make it clear when a multiple-paragraph comment…
Daily note for 18 January 2023
In a conversation today I got to reference the chicken and pig analogy around project managers, which is something I haven’t done in ages. I was differentiating between those project mangers without domain knowledge who coordinate, document, follow up on…
Daily note for 15 January 2024
This from Dai Vaughan is really excellent on how technology failures keep damaging people’s lives, and how frustrating it is that the answers to this problem are well known, but unevenly implemented. Mike Bracken’s take on Horizon. Still noodling on…
Week note for 12 January 2024
A slow start to the year, blogging wise, been getting other stuff up straight. So here’s a bunch of things I’ve spotted during the last few days or so… The delightful people at Lincoln Council are hiring a Web /…
Daily note for 22 December 2023
Substack’s Nazi problem seems to be getting a lot of attention at the moment. It’s a weird one for me, because I just don’t see it. It was a bit like that for me on Twitter as well, lots of…
Daily note for 21 December 2023
Am playing around a bit with Feedland, Dave Winer’s newish RSS aggregating thing. I like how it is all public, so anyone can see the feeds I subscribe to and what is in them. Am enjoying the desktop app feel…
On what we should call the folk who engage with local public services
Bit of an old chestnut, this, that I referred to in another post and I have been mulling on for a while. User feels a bit techie, a bit too transactional, and sometimes like somebody who indulges in illicit substances.…
Daily note for 18 December 2023
I’m barely posting any links into Raindrop. I just like linking to them here, on my blog. But I worry they get lost. Not that I ever seem to look for them. I newslettered. Some nice bits in Matt Mullenweg’s…
Daily note for 17 December 2023
Lovely bit of LocalGov blogging: Nature’s Genius: Service Innovation through Biomimicry. This is a great story, about the wonder that was Yahoo Pipes, beautifully told… and now I am really interested in Retool, so I guess it did its job…
Daily note for 14 December 2023
Not been looking forward to today really. I have to go to see a foot specialist about an ulcerated wound on the balls of my right foot. It’ll be good to start getting it sorted, but it involves going somewhere…