We're looking for two part-time volunteers with lived experience of ADHD: a Content Designer and Graphic Designer.
Both roles are flexible (4–6 hours/week).
Want to help us prototype a guidance service and build our new website and visual identity? Email: adhdpathfinding@googlegroups.com
Why does your change initiative stall even when everyone nods along in the meeting?
Based on a talk given by Katherine Wastell and Alexander Blandford at Camp Digital 2025, our blog post shows you how to actually move things forward when the organisation resists.
public.digital/pd-insights/...
Agree with Vincent. So long as apps are not the only channel, the impersonation challenge remains.
Headshots of PD's 29 new starters in 2025.
2025 was a landmark year for our team. We were proud to welcome 29 new colleagues to support our growing business.
As we step into 2026, we’re excited to keep that momentum going with a fresh group of starters joining us this January. Welcome to the team!
public.digital/about-pd/our...
As well as sorting out the last minute details for GovCamp 2026 we're also planning for the long term. We want to set up GovCamp as an official non-profit company. To do that we need a Board of Trustees.
We've previously asked for volunteers but, while good people, they're all straight white men.
Watch our Business Development Lead, Jack Hughes, reflect on some of PD's 2025 highlights in our video Year Note.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZu7...
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An image with a dark grey background and a pattern of small grey diamonds. Text reads: "Just as your services adapt to users your organisation must adapt to exponential market change."
Just as your services adapt to users, your organisation must adapt to exponential market change.
public.digital/dynamic-oper...
What’s a half width character?
Public Digital's Senior Design Director Katherine Wastell.
"Most of the time we’re not designing the products and services – we’re designing the system to put users at the heart of it."
Design Week interviews PD's Senior Director Katherine Wastell.
www.designweek.co.uk/there-is-no-...
I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside).
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
We're delighted to welcome Olivia Elson to Public Digital as a Director in the Global Impact team.
public.digital/about-pd/our...
Follow @adhdpathfinding.org.uk to hear about this new volunteer group helping people with “undiagnosed” #ADHD in the UK
Background:
- millions of us
- mostly unsupported/no access to helpful meds
- waiting lists years long
- access to lists denied for older people
Or an Erdinger for that matter!
I'm hosting an unconference for community professionals in Lagos, Nigeria on July 12, 2025.
If you enjoy having an open and honest conversation around the messy and grey areas of building a community regardless of the industry, you should plan to attend!
Link in thread 👇
It's looking likely I'll be back helping to deliver services in the #NHS again soon. It's been 3 years since my last stint with the awesome #111online team and I'm trying to get the lay of the land, what's changed, what hasn't? Let me know in the comments or drop me a DM if you're up for a chat 👍
How do we repair the mess Trump & the tech titan have made? Public servants who know how to build things can tell us.
Here’s @merici.bsky.social, who built IRS Direct File AND helped launched the beloved CFPB on @cnn.com with @philmattingly.bsky.social
transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date...
A piece of career advice I give people I mentor is to go where you are valued. It means it’s important to be in a role where you are respected, recognized and rewarded.
Sometimes despite tenure, it’s better to leave and accelerate your career trajectory versus staying where you’ve been written off.
More of this please.
Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”
I am going to buy 2 places on @ewebber.bsky.social's fantastic new self paced learning course, for people traditionally marginalised in the #digital industry if you're interested, or know someone let me know 👍
(inspired by @deanvipond.bsky.social recent offer for UCD folks ❤️)
Bookmarking this
AI is doing the coursework.
AI is writing the resume based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
AI is doing the jobs gotten by AI reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
Join us in Westminster on 7 May for Data Bites #55.
Speakers include:
🔹 Alex Blandford (Public Digital & Oxford)
🔹 Laura Gilbert (Ellison Institute)
🔹 Ed Humpherson on data, trust & regulation
🔹 MHCLG on Local Digital & AI
📍Broadway House, London SW1H
Building Successful Communites of Practice with Emily Webber Coming soon, sign up now for a discount at launch. Learn how to form, grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations An online self-paced course at https://tacit.pub/onlinecourse
Exciting news! I'm launching my brand new online self-paced course very soon.
With videos, reading, and hands-on activities, learn how to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations.
Sign up now to receive a discount at launch tacit.pub/onlinecourse
If you're an #HTML nerd, I would love your help.
I've released a new Pretty-Printer for PHP 8.4's Dom\HTMLDocument class.
Could you please go to shkspr.mobi/blog/random and hit view source in your browser. Does everything look OK? Anything weird? It should all be formatted nicely.
THANKS!
A special edition of my newsletter focused on the Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team vacancies (and principles).
@karakane-kk.bsky.social
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
If you have some training budget you would like to use up before the end of the financial year, I have some availability for coaching sessions. Make an inquiry here, let me know your timescales and anything else important and I will be in touch.
21cmindset.com/inquiry/
Blog entry: "It’s important that we reconsider how much to government software development outsource. I don’t mean what percentage of development, I mean the extent of each project that is handed off to a vendor. What might it look like to reduce the outsourced extent, if that would reduce risk?"
The Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team are hiring 11 roles across product, delivery management, data analysis and design. Come work with us on public sector reform! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
Do you use an API?
Do you run an API?
Then I'd love to hear from you!
I'm supporting the ONS with some work looking at the current API landscape and best practice (esp government, and esp stats)
We have a short survey - v grateful for thoughts, and please share! www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/FISUES/
