Digital champions, skills.
This is a blog about creativity culture and post-it notes. I worked in the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office for a bit. The unit prided itself on finding new, better, more innovative ways of working, and finding solutions …
Warning: This is a blog about filing and productivity. It makes the case that social tools like Yammer help people to be less busy and more productive. I took a day off a few weeks ago. When I returned to …
At some point in just about every presentation I give about digital communication, and our efforts to do it better at the Department of Health, I get asked a version of this question: "That's all very well, but what about all the …
A long time ago I hand-coded a content management system from scratch using PHP and MySQL for a cheese reviews website. It wasn't a very good CMS, and it was a rubbish website. But I did it - it was …
We're recruiting for a digital engagement manager at the moment. It's an internal recruitment exercise - the job is only available to current civil servants. The role is described in full on the Civil Service Jobs site (login required). Extract: …
We need to change the way we create, publish and manage digital content in the Department of Health. We need to do it now. There are a few reasons why: The Department of Health is changing. We'll soon be responsible …
I mentioned that I wanted the DH digital communication team to aspire to run the most effective digital communication operation in government. It's a nice ambition, but it's pretty meaningless unless we can find ways to rate our performance. We ran a …
In a previous job, my line manager told me that if I wanted to get on I would be wise to clearly "position myself" within the organisation. He thought that I should either position myself as someone who delivered policy …
The challenge is fairly straightforward: how can we use digital tools and techniques and internet culture to help deliver the objectives of the Department of Health? I joined the Department in August, and I've been on a crash course since …