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Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
📅 Daily Note: September 3, 2025
Brent’s Innovation Journey: Building a ‘Base’ for Local Government Innovation by Ryan Hamilton on the LOTI blog: At Brent, we’ve been trying to rethink how we tackle problems in a way that makes ‘innovation’ not just a buzzword, but a…
📖 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…
Daily note for 12 September 2023
“It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy” – somewhat concerning. Love this, eccentric bringing back to life of ancient, almost useless technology. Beautiful. Lovely reflections from Tim Davies, someone I don’t speak to…
LINK: “Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.”
Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool. Original:
LINK: “Slack must use cash hoard to find new ways to keep competition at bay”
Slack’s success has always been a bit surprising because it’s facing off against giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Cisco, Salesforce and many others, all gunning for this upstart’s market. In fact, Microsoft is giving Teams away for free to Office…
LINK: “On Microsoft Teams in Office 365, and why we prefer walled gardens to the Internet jungle”
Having lots of features is one thing, winning adoption is another. Microsoft lacked a unifying piece that would integrate these various elements into a form that users could easily embrace. Teams is that piece. Introduced in March 2017, I initially…
Five for Friday (26/5/17)
Five more nourishing morsels I’ve spotted this week: LocalGovCamp is back this September in Bristol. Find out more and sign up for the ticket lottery here. The Disappearing Computer – Walt Mossberg’s last column is a great read on the future…
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…
LocalGovCamp 2014 thoughts #3 – collaboration is key
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. Mary McKenna brilliantly facilitated an excellent discussion on collaboration – why it is needed, why it hasn’t…