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šŸ“… Daily Note: July 14, 2025

Experiences of moving websites to LocalGov Drupal from the Essex Digital Service.

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Ben Holliday: New ways of organising:

Whatā€™s most interesting to me in 2025 is that we still need new ways of organising. Itā€™s hard to point to places that we can truly call service organisations, at least outside of individual policy areas or transformation programmes.

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Jukesie – The Open Continuum:

Working in the open can seem scary and a bit all or nothing. I suspect I do not help with this with my stories of the extreme ups and downs of the practice and certainly there is some riskā€¦not as much as is often feared but it is there.

Being open is not one size fits all though. There are levels to it and significant benefits at each of them ā€“ plus you build your muscles, instincts and a thicker skin if you work your way up to going all-out.

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šŸ“… Daily note for 24 October 2024

Patient records and the NHS Appā¬ˆ – or why this stuff is really, really hard. #

Southwark Councilā¬ˆ have made some interesting design decisions on their new LocalGovDrupal website.

A week note from Catherine Howeā¬ˆ should always be celebrated. #

A gobbet from a piece I’m drafting for a project:

Consolidation, harmonisation, standardisationā€¦ call it what you will. The opportunities however are boundless, but to take them we have to all agree on the central premise: councils have too much to do, and everyone will be better off if they can focus on what really matters to local people.

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4 ideas for the digital centre of governmentā¬ˆ from dxw. #

The role of Transactive Memory Systems in great teamsā¬ˆ by Emily Webber.

Daniel Wegner introduced the term ā€ transactive memory Systemā€ in 1985 as a counter to more negative perceptions of group behaviours.

Transactive memory is like an index of where to find things rather than knowing them yourself.

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