innovation – Page 5 – Dave Briggs

What I’ve been reading

May 16, 2012

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

BDU: Big Data – E-learning about "big data" which people keep telling me is going to be important.
WP2Cloud – Interesting one for WordPress dorks (like me). Stores all your WP site stuff in Amazon's cloud.
Announcing Open Space South West #OpenSSW – Sounds like it will be a fun event – well done Carl Haggerty!
Sir Bob Kerslake: why social media is a vital tool for the civil service – …and not just the civil service of course. Nice to see positive noises from the top
Antibodies, Attack Dogs, and Success Cats: 3 New Product Lessons – Even innovating in innovation organisations isn't easy.
Acting on the annual user survey | Stephen Hale – Great open discussion about website user happiness.

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

What I’ve been reading

March 25, 2012

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

cpsrenewal.ca by Nick Charney: Mapping Internal Policy to the Hype Cycle – "I've been thinking a lot this week about how organizations issue policies to govern the use of new and emerging technologies."
The BBC Micro can still teach us a lot – "The BBC Micro taught a generation of teenagers the joys of programming. It's time to re-engineer such a revolution"
Amazon v. Apple « LRB blog – "Readers might be revelling in the lower prices they find on Amazon, but if the books they’re buying are ever less worth reading, it doesn’t seem much of a bargain."
What is Dart? – O’Reilly Radar – "Dart [is] an open-source project that aims to enable developers to build more complex, highly performant apps for the modern web."
MIT App Inventor – "To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior."

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

Open by default

December 1, 2011

Catherine Howe on the need for the organisations delivering public services to be open ones:

I have an underlying belief, and often unstated, belief that there is need to look at how we transition large organisations within the public sector towards a more networked state and that this transition does need happen in the form of positive distuption within these organisations as much as in the form of of external pressure to change. This involve compromise and an evolution towards a goal rather than a ‘big bang’ solution.

Great post, well worth a read in full.

What I’ve been reading

August 25, 2011

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

openkent :: home – "Open Kent is where public sector bodies in Kent can publish information about the services they provide."
How to do a Crowd | Innovator Inside – For crowds, read communities, groups, whatever. Good stuff.
Shabby PR from SOCITM « Simon Wakeman – "As a PR man I’m well versed in the technique in play here – create a stir around headline grabbing stat or two then ride to the rescue with a carefully pitched product or service to solve the various woes created by aforementioned stat. "
Government corporate websites in eye-popping 3D – Fascinating to watch this develop.
Local Government please don’t sack the connectors. « Podnosh – "So as funding dries up for the jobs best done by connectors – please local government management, make sure you find ways of keeping them in fruitful work and onside – because you will be needing them."

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

Skunkworks videos

August 16, 2011

Today I came across two useful videos featuring Mark O’Neil – a CIO in central government and the guy that heads up the government skunkworks – talking about his work.

They can be found via the UKauthorITy site:

I wrote a bit about skunkworks and their use in local government here.

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