Dave Briggs' other blog

I have had the pleasure over the last couple of years of being a member of Woking Council’s Digital Design Authority. This is a group made up of a few senior members of the digital team at the Council, the relevant portfolio holding member, as well and myself and a few other independent folk with […]

One of the projects I have been working on for the last 6 months or so is the playbook of support for councils going through reorganisation, which specifically looks at the digital and digital-adjacent things that need dealing with. It’s really great to see it emerge in the open and for people to start using […]

Short week last week as I took a couple of days off for half term. Also, I need to get into the habit of writing these during the week they actually refer to. This week’s worky highlights: Some more Skillstats demos, which were as helpful to me as they were those on the receiving end. […]

Another Tuesday posting! Weeks are flying by. I guess this is part of getting older. That and getting increasingly bad at remembering, well, anything. This week’s worky highlights: The publication of the LGR DDaT playbook has been postponed for a couple of weeks. It’s a shame but can’t be helped. In the meantime we are […]

A Tuesday posting but I don’t suppose anybody minds – most of this was written last week though, promise. This week’s worky highlights: The LGR DDaT playbook is on the cusp of release, which is very exciting. It’ll be nice to be involved in getting a project out of the door for the Local Digital […]

January has felt like a looooong month, and I haven’t really enjoyed it. Doesn’t feel like I am remotely up to speed after the festive break, still! So tired. So very tired. This week’s worky highlights: Getting some of the info-gov stuff sorted for clients using Skillstats – DPIAs and that sort of thing. Slightly […]

Blogging has been a little light this week. Just not that much stuff to link to, and I’ve been in a headspace where I’ve not had too many share-worthy thoughts or ideas. I’ve been tired – maybe that’s the reason. I also didn’t post this on Friday but left it til the following Monday! Silly […]

Let’s see how long I can keep this up for! This week’s worky highlights: We are recruting for two big roles at Luton Head of Innovation Delivery and Data Deputy Data Protection Officer & Compliance Improvement Manager Also at Luton, we have identified 5 big areas of work that we need some more investment in […]

I have been frustrated with the state of the categories on this blog for some years now. That’s right – years. This site has been going in one form or another for over 20 years – the first post being in 2004 – and there’re over 3,000 posts on here in total. Over that time, […]

AI is not a strategy, it’s a tactic. Once all the fuss has settled down, we will be in a position where specific AI tools are useful in specific circumstances – it won’t have “transformed” anything. We had exactly this conversation about robotic process automation a few years back. And before that, cloud. And before […]

The view over the field at the back of our house this morning.