An online notebook
Great talk here from the Google Atmosphere conference by Rachel Miller, author of the excellent All Things IC blog. She talks about the ways social is being used within organisations to transform the way organisations communicate and get stuff done. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lIazuTFOz0&w=560&h=315] Well worth a watch!
I published a post today on the Department of Health’s Digital Health blog about the work I am doing there building digital capability across the organisation Here’s a quick snippet: To my mind there needs to be a three pronged approach to developing an organisation to help it become truly digitally enabled. Those prongs are: … Keep reading
I’ve just come across this post from Owen Barder, from back in 2012, providing his tips on managing email a bit more effectively. Owen has a triage system for email which is based on four D’s: Deal with it – If I can deal with an email in less than four or five minutes, I … Keep reading
Am currently reading, and very much enjoying Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator. It’s basically lots of interviews with founders of companies that were once startups about what life was like in the early days. The book’s blurb sells it well: Founders at Work is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies … Keep reading
I like to use plain text when I can. Plain text is just text without any formatting, which you edit with an app called a text editor, like Notepad on Windows or TextWrangler on a Mac. It’s pretty much a universal format – it can be opened and edited on pretty much any system or … Keep reading