This is, by its nature, massively cringe, but I felt it necessary. It’s a video explaining the Local Government Digital Quality Model that I have been working away on in my spare time recently.
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Interesting links – 18 Feb 2021
I find interesting things to read, bookmark them, save a chunk of text as a quote, and then occasionally copy and paste it all into a blog post, so you don’t have to.
Digital Inclusion Toolkit: now live
Leeds and Croydon Councils recently won central government funding to create a comprehensive and collaborative how-to guide for digital inclusion.
Delivering and accelerating in a pandemic – DWP Digital
Within DWP Digital our Technology Services team designs, builds and operates that platform, and in the last 10 months has ‘moved mountains’ to keep those services going.
Working Smarter Field Guide
Learning informally and socially means connecting our individual work with our teams, communities, and networks. It requires honing our curiosity and seeking out different perspectives and ideas. It takes more than individual sensemaking to understand complex situations, so we have to find others to challenge our assumptions and learn at the edge of our professional abilities.
The tiny video toolkit
People ask me [Coté] how I do the tiny videos. I hope to do a screencast at some point, but in the meantime, here are some notes.
Announcing our new digital skills training offer – MHCLG Digital
We’re inviting local authority staff to apply for one of 10 certified courses with FutureLearn, covering a range of topics such as accessibility, design, decision-making and leadership. We’re testing the water with a small number of licenses and courses, but if we get enough positive feedback we’ll look to purchase more and make it an ongoing thing.
The triumph of the nerds
If you have a few hours to spare, you could do a lot worse than to spend them watching the three episodes that make up Triumph of the Nerds, a 1995 documentary charting the history of the microcomputer industry.
From the Altair 8800 through the Apple II to IBM’s PC and the dominance of Microsoft, there are tonnes of lessons about what it takes to make technology companies succeed.
As I say, well worth a watch. Just to be helpful, I’ve embedded them below.
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBXbvl1Sg4
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWylb_5IOw0
Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjDofliudFY
Planning digital engagement
I recorded this a little while ago to go alongside some other training and consulting work I was doing at the time.
I basically explain how to plan out digital engagement work to ensure it is most likely to succeed, by thinking about your own objectives, the needs of the people you want to engage with, and that sort of thing.
It refers to a template throughout – you can download a copy of that here – it’s in PowerPoint format.
Hope it’s useful!
Building online communities webinar recording
I had a good time presenting a webinar this morning about managing online communities.
As always, I recorded the whole thing for your infotainment: