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Doug’s new #shoffice
I was going to create a new blog for this but I thought if there’s one thing I don’t need in my life it’s another blog. So it’s stopping here. For the time being, anyway. I’ve created a Flickr set to...
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A #shoffice update (October 2012)
Back in August I posted about how working from home with my new job for the Mozilla Foundation means I needed a dedicated office. It’s just too distracting working in the main house when we’ve got two...
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Planning permission approved for my #shoffice!
I said I’d keep you all apprised of progress on my shed/office/shoffice project. Happily, this week Northumberland County Council gave the go-ahead: Our architect, Mark Starford, is now liaising with a...
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Practicalities
This is my third post on Laura Thomson’s marvellous talk Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. In this one I’m focusing on the section she entitled ‘Practicalities’. All of the ideas in this post should be...
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[INCOMING] #BelshawBlackOps13
TL;DR: I won’t be blogging or using social networks in November/December. This is twice as long as last year. You can see what I got up to last time here. For the past three years, I’ve sworn off...
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Problem Solving and Decision Making
This is my fourth post on Laura Thomson’s excellent talk Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. In this one I’m focusing on the section she entitled ‘Practicalities’. All of the ideas in this post should be...
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Weeknote 42/2013
This week I’ve been: Working with the Mozilla Webmaker team to get a first version of the Web Literacy Standard on webmaker.org. It’ll be on staging soon. Responding to the requirements of organisers...
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Goals, scheduling, shipping
This is another post on Laura Thomson’s excellent talk on Minimum Viable Bureaucracy all about the section she entitled ‘Goals, scheduling, shipping’. You should credit Laura with all of the ideas in...
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy: Why have managers?
This is my last post writing up Laura Thomson’s excellent talk on Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. I’ve added the audio from the Q&A session below, but this text is taken from the final section of the...
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Where I’ll be at MozFest
It’s the Mozilla Festival this weekend. Below is where you can find me and the schedule is here. Friday 18:00-20:00 – Science Fair (Level 4) Saturday (Level 7) 11:00-12:00 – Open Badges & Web...
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Minimum Viable Badge
This is a stub of a post. I’ll come back and add more detail later, but I wanted to get it out there pre-#BelshawBlackOps13. When I say ‘badge’ I am, of course, talking about Open Badges. Just as we...
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Announcing the Web Literacy Standard (specification)
On-stage at the Mozilla Festival on Saturday, Brett Gaylor and Chris Lawrence announced a number of updates and additional features of webmaker.org. One of these, I’m delighted to report, was the Web...
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#BelshawBlackOps13 has started
As this post goes live I’ll be relaxing with my family in Gozo, a tiny island in the Mediterranean. It’s a wonderful place to recover from the madness of MozFest – as well as being an apt start to a...
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Doug’s new #shoffice
I was going to create a new blog for this but I thought if there’s one thing I don’t need in my life it’s another blog. So it’s stopping here. For the time being, anyway. I’ve created a Flickr set to...
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A #shoffice update (October 2012)
Back in August I posted about how working from home with my new job for the Mozilla Foundation means I needed a dedicated office. It’s just too distracting working in the main house when we’ve got two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Planning permission approved for my #shoffice!
I said I’d keep you all apprised of progress on my shed/office/shoffice project. Happily, this week Northumberland County Council gave the go-ahead: Our architect, Mark Starford, is now liaising with a...
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