Working Open

Weeknotes are writings about your week of work. This article will show you how to write a weeknote in 30 minutes. Yes, it is possible, and satisfying too! — What a weeknote is Weeknotes are short reflections on your week of work. They aren’t blogs. They are shorter and may include different subjects that don’t connect together, apart from being part of your week. People often write them in Medium. This is a great tool. Get an account, open a new post and…

Every week, Lauren Currie asks her audience four questions to start their week. I will use this as a template for my Weeknotes. You can use it too; find the questions over here. What’s my biggest opportunity this week? On Wednesday I am leading a steering group with two board…

Hat tip to Steve Hawkes of The Developer Society and Giles and Catriona at Quaker Social Action for helping us do this cool thing. — For the last 10 days we’ve been developing a new type of article for Catalyst Resources. Rather than talking about good charity web design practice we wanted to write an article that showed real life examples of good and bad design. Here’s how we did it. 1. Made a brief

Weeknotes about things I don’t usually write about. — Its Thursday already. I write on a Thursday because I’ve stopped working on a Friday. On Fridays I now study advanced systems theory on this Fritjof Capra course. This week I’m going to write using 3 questions randomly selected from Template 5 of our weeknotes templates doc. 1. Who did I talk to outside of my organisation? I talked to…

Hacking Yul Brynner’s weeknote template again — Not a Western. More about getting back onto my work horse after a summer break. I chose this week’s theme because it’s the most memorable from the weeknotes templates. Every time I think of it I think of Yul Brynner’s bald head in the hot sun. (Note: I’ve never actually…

Kicking off work with Sport England and CAST — WAO recently started collaborating with Joe Roberson on some work around helping organisations affiliated with Sport England work more openly. We’re being funded for this work by CAST. In our kick-off sessions with representatives of some of the 21 organisations involved with the programme, we asked two really simple questions…

This post is based on work done by the wonderful Joe Roberson for Catalyst and has been adapted for the Open Working & Reuse programme. Welcome to the Open Working & Reuse Medium publication. We invite you to write about your work here. You can write weeknotes or blogs. We…

Welcome to the CAST Writers Medium publication. We invite you to write about your digital work here. You can write weeknotes or blogs. We welcome formal and informal thoughts, updates and reflections from your work. Be open. Share what you’re doing and learning. It benefits everyone when you do. To…

Open working. Working in the open. Agile Comms. Reuse. Terms that are bandied about and can be confusing to anyone not working with these subjects daily. Much like a comic-book novice might be when encountering The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider Man 2099 or The Ultimate Spider Man for the first time…