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📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 16 January 2026

1 month 4 weeks ago
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 […]
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Recategorising over 3,000 blog posts

1 month 4 weeks ago
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, […]
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Accessibility overlays used by councils in UK and Ireland

2 months ago

Back in late 2023 I reviewed the number of councils using accessibility overlays (also known as accessibility or assistive toolbars). I was aware that concerns have been raised about this technology, so decided to find out which councils are using them. Two years on I carried out another review to find out if there has […]

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AI is not a strategy

2 months 1 week ago
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 […]
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📅 Daily Note: December 2, 2025

3 months 1 week ago
Gavin Beckett – Harnessing the changing landscape of local government to create internet era organisations: Effective responses to complex, long-standing social challenges need to be co-designed and co-produced with people and community organisations that grow from the ground up. Modern councils need new capabilities that enable them to work well with a constellation of partners, […]
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📅 Daily Note: November 25, 2025

3 months 2 weeks ago
Richard Pope – Preventative healthcare: designing for the service loop: # – micropost 23148 Katherine Wastell – Every organisation has some madness: If everyone spots the problems but no one takes responsibility, things will only get worse. Accountability is the difference between taking a step forward and staying stuck. It takes one brave team to […]
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