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A tweet from Dave reminded me how hard it is to actually work out loud. Since writing this at the end of March, I’ve been able to do precisely nothing about it! ? https://t.co/Eb8ffBEG2b — Dave Briggs (@davebriggs) June 17, 2019 For a start, you need the time to write something for yourself which nobody…

2008-9 was a good time for me. I was a few months into an amazing new job thinking about how a government department might use social media creatively for communications and policymaking; and in the early months too of being a new dad. Work-wise, our little team did some amazing things that year, from low…

Last week, Team Helpful took a day off to focus on kick starting the revamp of our website. The results will hopefully appear soon, but one thing that won’t be appearing on the new site is a blog. Or at least, not in the conventional sense. As a civil servant working in digital six years…

Maybe Friday afternoons make people bolder. But I think there’s a longer-term shift happening. Last Friday, the ever-interesting insider @pubstrat published an interesting piece gently critiquing the new e-petitions service, arguing — rightly, I think — that requiring petitioners to specify the responsible central government Department for their issue is a step backwards: A solution…

Today DIUS and Becta held a conference hosted by Channel 4 in London under the banner “All Together Now: Delivering Further Education in an era of mass participation“. The event was for policy makers, FE professionals and providers to consider the implications and potential of this new wave of media and technology innovation, learn from…

“Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.” Lev Grossman, Time Magazine Photo credit: Stephen McLeod Guido Fawkes is switching to a reputation and…

Hello again. Some 12 years after I started, it’s high time I got a personal site up and running again. Digging through my old files, I was amused to see the home page message that first appeared on Steph Online, back in 1996: As there is so much, ahem, rubbish on the Net, here I…