Daily note for 7 September 2023

Chunky update as I haven’t published for a couple of days. Was in the office in Lambeth yesterday. Whoever designed the file sharing permissions in Microsoft 365 should probably go and find some other purpose in life. Postmarks looks interesting. Like a single-user but federated del.icio.us style bookmarking site. Steph and I migrated LocalGov.blog away … Keep reading

Daily note for 31 August 2023

I sent out a newsletter this morning. These daily notes are going well, I think, in that I am keeping up with them and it’s really helpful to keep a record of the good stuff I am coming across. But am definitely just posting links, and not really saying much else. I’ll try and fix … Keep reading

Daily note for 30 August 2023

I wrote a post about simple things for leadership types to bear in mind when thinking about technology. WordPress for Enterprise looks a very useful guide. Strange it’s a PDF though and not also available as web pages (although as Steph mentioned to me, PDFs are very ‘enterprise’). What is inclusive design and why is … Keep reading

5 simple rules for organisational leaders to keep in mind about technology

Commenting on James Herbert’s sensible post about approaching AI in local government, I came up with 5 statements of the bleedin’ obvious that all senior people ought to have in their minds whenever technology is being discussed. If something sounds like a silver bullet, it probably isn’t one You can’t build new things on shaky, … Keep reading