Random musings Posts

I took part in on a great session at #ukgc13 run by Julia Chandler on the future of digital comms teams. Julia has also written up some notes from her session and there is a link to her full notes there too.

This subject seems to be coming up a lot lately in conversations and others have been blogging on the subject – see Dan Slee’s excellent post on this topic.

Many people are suggesting that digital comms specialists and teams will disappear in (soonest) two years or five years or ten years.

I’ll set my stall out now. I think this is a load of crap. The same question can be asked of comms teams in general. And I don’t see those going anywhere. Ever.

So over the weekend I had a tweet from the Women’s Room, a really cool project that is trying to do something about the very important problem of the lack of female faces and voices in the public realm.

Why have I hesitated to sign up?

I attended a fab off-grid get-together this afternoon of a mix of digital and press folk in government today. Very honoured to have been included.

We looked at what is working well, what isn’t and what the perfect future might look like. A lot of interesting discussions and models for the future. Really got my brain buzzing on a Friday afternoon….

So I’m facing a second site redesign in just over a year. Last time I had so little time to get everything right, I found myself mainly focussing on the look and feel of the site and *hands up* spent no time on the actual architecture of the site.