It feels opportune to reshare this, from @richardpope.org

User needs first Service design second Operating model third Technology fourth This order is still reversed way too often.

This is a profoundly useful resource, and almost all of it's applicable to *any* org, not just councils Assume your cyber controls *won't* work, and make sure to check this out so you can be confident that you'll know what to do (And bravo to the LGA for making this open - it makes things better)

Now that summer is over and the kids are back at school, I thought I would kick off a regular online get together for local public service folk (only) to join. Last Thursday of the month, 12pm-1pm on Zoom. Sign up at lnkd.in/eVshDSw5 for free!

Love this! I’ve been thinking about the apps that I use, and how access to my data might be impacted by, um, current affairs. There are credible alternatives…

Really enjoyed this post - the importance of white space in design - including organisations

One of my favourite Christmas tree ‘baubles’. I do love our colourful and eccentric collection that we’ve built over the years with the boys ❤️

It's going to end 52/48 isn't it, the cursed ratio.

Just posted a longer reflection on my work with Placecube and imminent move to Public Digital. medium.com/@gavinbecket...

Sharing this (from the other place). I'm a trustee at the Stroke Association. This is really, really hard hitting and a possible trigger, it's about stroke and the impact of stroke. TRIGGER ALERT If you want to know more, see the post here > x.com/TheStrokeAss...

From the other place. Let’s find this person.

The water made it in below the door. Thankfully stopped by our quick thinking neighbour (we were out for lunch). Quite the mop up challenge for a Sunday evening after a boozy lunch…!

Tech innovation: we invented a way to generate low quality text, for things like emails that no one reads Social innovation: we should stop sending emails that no one reads

Oh! I've seen all of the messages today but had no idea quite how earlier I was to Blue Sky (which now has over 10 million users). I was #9,133!

Installing Signal in the noise: How Uncle Sam investing in secure messaging gave the world better digital public infrastructure civic-texts.ghost.io/installing-s...

Checks and updates username on social media accounts… https://bsky.app/profile/mxfee.bsky.social/post/3k4kurny5bg2u

After failing to get #Oasis tickets this weekend, Tiago and Phoenix spotted Noel in the queue behind them waiting to board BA636 to Athens this morning. Flying commercial.

Ouch!! We're lucky. Our neighbour keeps hens, and we get fresh eggs. Large eggs. This week one of the eggs is _extraordinarily_ large. Huge.

Has anyone installed their own instance of #Skybridge on a Raspberry Pi? Any tips/ a guide? (I’ve not been able to find anything, appreciate it’s early days.) #LoveSkybridge #KeenToAvoidTheRateLimitErrors

Cambodia (lovely, lovely, Cambodia)

Aliens 3 ✅ AVP ✅ … patience chez Garcez for watching the films en famille is wearing thin (frankly, may have worn out). Queueing for Oasis tickets for my sins…

Strong desire to emulate Catharine Cudney & my near 15yr old daughter 😂

Bangkok

After a few days off, Alien3 tonight. Not one I’ve watched before. Earlier today I went through photos from our holiday. I’ll share a few here from time to time.

Alien ✅ last night Aliens ✅ this evening 🤞 we’ll manage to squeeze in Aliens 3 tomorrow 😃

Or a pretty neat Xit? https://bsky.app/profile/acuitydesign.bsky.social/post/3kzytqjdhh62n

There’s something nice about footy in the summer on a glorious day like today. Out of picture, there’s a BBQ and music in the neighbouring field: I can’t resist a little dad dancing on the side… 😃

Have swum. Need to return to car insurance hell. Keen to watch (and for some rewatch) the Aliens films. Limited family support for that (and limited interest in the insurance). Having a G&T in the garden to help nudge things along…

It’s ’renew car insurance’ time chez Garcez. An absolute low-light of our year.

A little bit of tinkering and I’ve followed a whole load of new peeps (thanks to those who shared lists!) and got the Ivory app (tapbots.com/ivory/) fully setup. If you’re an iOS user: check out Ivory. It works pretty seamlessly with 🦋 (it was designed for 🐘). Hoping to see all the peeps here 😃

Apparently all the peeps are shifting to BlueSky (away from the dark side, whoop whoop!). Thanks @benunsworth.bsky.social for the starter pack (it felt very solo on here before!). Delighted that Ivory works here, as well as on Mastodon 🐘 Please share any other useful starter packs 😃 🙏

How do I get invites so I can get some of my friends here?

Almost invisible to the naked eye (!) Lucy’s wildlife camera setup in the wood. Loving the meta-ness that the first photo it takes will be of me photographing it!