It really is quite simple. If you wouldn’t have said it before there were social media, don’t say it now just because there are. If you work for an organisation, don’t be rude about its leaders, products or policies in public. Don’t imagine that online anonymity is an invisibility cloak. If you work in the [...]
Every now and then I still get a slight frisson from the thought that I can get things out of my computer that I didn’t put there. My first computer was very simple. You turned it on and got to a screen which said, in its entirety: A:\> (note to younger, but not very young, readers: no [...]
This is not a post about the barrier I came across as I walked to the post office on Saturday. I had to turn into the path in the picture, which takes a 210° hairpin to the right, followed by a 110° turn back to the left – it’s sharper and more awkward than the [...]
I am on a train, going to a meeting about using the next generation of technology in the workplace to improve the effectiveness with which we do business. Next generation in this case means the generation after Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6, so I am containing my excitement, but there is no doubt that [...]
The end of history will come not when nothing more ever changes, but when nobody can work out what has actually happened. We may be closer to that point than we like to think. In the world of organisations, historically, the creation of records was a by-product of actually doing the work. It wasn’t hard [...]
Rewired State has taken another step towards becoming the next generation systems integrator for government. In a piece of delightful recursion, a Rewired State project becomes the vehicle for accessing the formal status of Rewired State – or as it has been since last Monday, Rewired State Ltd. In other news, the Rewired State gang [...]
More on powerpoint… the more, in number and in detail, your bullets, the less I believe you know your stuff! Valdis Krebs
Last week, this blog hit five years and 400 posts, just as it became apparent that blogs are history. As this momentous milestone approached, there was a flurry of coverage of the latest Pew Internet Project report, on social media and young adults, picking up on the decline of interest in blogging – at least [...]
There are very serious reasons behind many of the projects I’m working on at the moment, but this gravity doesn’t preclude the use of a little panache or showmanship to add to the effectiveness of the end product. Indeed, in many cases it’s the lack of style that’s been the problem in the first place. [...]
It appears to be a permanent part of the human condition that long term deadlines without short term milestones are rarely met. Joel Spolsky, in an essay on student computer science projects, which has much wider interest and implications. The more you think things through first from someone else’s perspective, the simpler the solution you [...]