Choosenick is moving home...

Onwards, upwards and increasingly lightweight and integrated is the dorky cry!

I’m in the process of moving the blog over to the main choosenick url on the excellent Chyrp blogging/tumblogging platform. Watch out for more writing and design content (soon, I promise!)… I’ll post another (final) update here once I’ve sorted out the last bits and bobs such as the rss feed and so forth. In addition, I’ll need to create my own theme, which will take a while too… Nonetheless, it’ll be worth it to tidy things up and get everything into one place.

Thanks Tumblr, you’ve been great, and I’ll miss your brilliant archive and mobile features. I’ll keep my new post-it blog going through Davidville’s little beauty though, so its not totally goodbye! Can’t say I’ll miss the very heavy duty EE too much (which was powering the old choosenick), although you were my first CMS so I guess that stands for something.

More Geoff - Taking innovation in the public sector seriously

More Geoff! I’ve been reading a printed copy of this:

Ready or not? Taking innovation in the public sector seriously

“The public sector is often poor at innovation from within, and poor at learning from outside. It contains many innovative people but isn’t good at harnessing their talents and imagination.”

It’s excellent, download it now. A review is likely to come here when I get some time… Still working on the complete overhaul/integration of my site/blog into Chyrp though so it may be a few weeks!

Daily Post-it

Service Design Network

The Service Design Network has had a substantial facelift and rebrand.

They’ve got a really interesting download (pdf) of the ‘Service Innovation and Design Journal’. There’s other articles and projects available for review too, including these from Birgit Marger in Cologne (but why can’t you download the document!?)

I’ve always liked Prof. Marger’s concept of service generally suffering from lack of ‘form’ - hence the need for service design.

Amazing pdf viewer

I hope this works…