October 26, 2010
Cass has been quietly, but effectively, behind a lot of really effective digital engagement activity in government, both in her current role in the Digital team at the Department for Energy & Climate Change, and before that, as Web Manager at UK Trade & Investment. At UKTI – an organisation which takes its digital very…
October 18, 2010
Sometimes I jokingly describe BIS as the ‘middle east of central government’: renamed/merged/split/reformed more than its fair share of the time. To be fair, Defra might have a claim to the same title, having been, within recent memory, bits of MAFF, DTLR, DETR, and DECC, plus more than its fair share of quangos. In that…
October 14, 2010
Sir Phillip Green, efficiency advisor to the government, recently reportedly challenged public sector workers to treat public money as their own. One person who’s been doing this for a while is Jenny Poole, Head of Digital Engagement at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She’s a former team member, and now client, of mine,…
September 23, 2010
As part of an occasional series on this blog, I want to introduce you to a few of the digital heroes and heroines doing great work inside the UK public sector. It’s not often my jaw literally drops open while reading a blog post, but it did when I read through Luke Oatham’s piece on…