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A tweet from Simon Wardley made me chuckle this week: It stung a bit too – after all, I started out being someone promoting social media in government, and now here I am banging on about IT and transformation.…
I took a week off doing this last week – the shame! – so apologies for that*. A good crop this time round though. Enjoy! Tom Steinberg asks Why even bother with a user centred, digital government? and it’s a…
While you wonder where on earth the sun has gone (and I don't mean from the accurate depiction of the solar system above) here are some interesting things to read. There are many tech roles going at Guildford Borough Council…
The end of the week and time to do some more linkery. Hope you enjoy them, and don’t forget to pass them along to anybody who might benefit. Digital Delivery Manager – my old team at Adur & Worthing are recruiting…
Not sure anything in tech world can match politics right now for interestingness, but here goes… Tandridge Council are recruiting a Technology Implementation Manager. Details here. What a digital organisation looks like – smart stuff from Janet Hughes. Answer =…
We are fairly aggressively targeting a platform approach to service design and delivery at Adur and Worthing. Summing this up is the vision statement in our (still developing) strategy is: “To use our expertise and platforms to help the people,…
The Government Digital Service has released a big list defining the skills needed for transformation. It’s certainly comprehensive. It’s fair to say that it is more a list of skills that people need rather than the details of what goes…
There was a debate raging late last week about the needs of digital in local government (again). I wrote up some thoughts to share with everyone – I was feeling somewhat limited by the 140 character confines of Twitter –…
I’ve done a fair bit of councillor training on digital in the past. Every time it focuses on social media, digital engagement and how members can use the web to interact with the public. It usually goes away, people have…
I’ve seen a few comments bouncing about Twitter and other places debating the meaning of the word digital, and why it hasn’t caught on in some places at all. I’ve also seen some people saying that ‘digital’ is an unhelpful…