Blog
This blog has evolved and moved several times since starting as ‘Helpful Technology’ in 2008. This has always been a personal blog alongside my work – and so it remains.
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Monkey Tennis syndrome
Mavericks & the Tutti Frutti client
Practising Max
Ambitions for 2024
A few lessons learned from tracking The Queue
Understanding the journey with a timeline
How to get Google Analytics reports by email
Farewell Helpful
Lessons from the first 1,000km as a new bike commuter
The website MOT: 7 hallmarks of a good modern website
The wrong clients
What might digital comms under Boris look like?
How to make “working out loud” work
As a foodie, I have too many recipe books I never use…
Being no-nonsense in a nonsense world
Long haul
It’s OK to reinvent the wheel
Blogging as thinking
Traindomiser 2: this time, it’s multimodal
How to be a Very Stable Genius
The Traindomiser: a train adventure
Agent O
20 things I learned at CommsCamp 2017
Digital Hero: Stephen Hale
In 2016, I…
On experts and amateurs
What good digital consultation looks like
A better website brief
20 things I learned at #CommsCamp15
Five years down the road
Digital people by the ounce
Day 1
Simpler, clearer, fairer
The great offices of State
The digital comms planner
Small umbrellas
Buzzfeed, Lego and government communication
Doing the right thing right
Four more years
On freelancing
What holds people back?
In 2014, let’s get digital skills out of the classroom
Whither digital communication?
Fêting failure
Keeping up with our clients
What public consultation can look like
What archaeology can teach us about agile web projects
All the news that’s fit to print
5 crisis communications lessons from Captain Barnacles of the Octonauts
