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Neil Tamplin

@neiltamplin.bsky.social
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Interested in the spot where technology & people meet. Often learning. Always curious.

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Neil Tamplin @neiltamplin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thanks to those who have re-posted this. Just giving it another bump myself.
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Neil Tamplin @neiltamplin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hi folks! 👋I'm keen to have a chat with anyone who has knowledge of product owner type roles that work with customised off the shelf systems, ideally in a local government setting. Thanks in advance!
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UKCharityCamp @ukcharitycamp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The news is out... After a fantastic event last year, we’re really pleased to share that UKCharityCamp is back for 2026 🎉 It’ll be on Thursday 5th November, at The Studio in Birmingham. Sign up for ticket reminders here tr.ee/aKDs7d And to the UKCharityCamp email list here lnkd.in/eaUP3Udm
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Neil Tamplin @neiltamplin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"Transformation isn’t about forcing change through sheer will. It's about creating environments where testing and learning feels natural and inevitable." public.digital/pd-insights/...
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Understanding behaviour: designing conditions where test and learn thrives
Test-and-learn flourishes when you design environments aligned with human behaviour - overcoming biases, celebrating small wins, embracing transparency, and funding stable teams.
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 08/06/2025
[Make things open] Picking a platform digitalbydefault.com/2025/06/08/m... When I am yabbering on about working in the open I sometimes get asked my opinion about what platform to use so I decided to write my really basic advice up for any future asks.
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[Make things open] Picking a platform
As a side-effect of my evangelism for working in the open I semi-regularly get asked for recommendations about which publishing platform someone should use and how they should get started. Firstly …
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Heledd Quaeck @helivans.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
👋 Anyone got great examples of annual report / review for a public sector org? Accessible, no fluff and waffle, to the point. HTML not designed for print as vanity document? Bonus point if you have any evidence to back up design approach?
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steve @visitmy.website · 07/04/2025
Lovely sketch-notes from one of the participants! medium.com/@karinasketc...
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Context windows — 5 perspectives on gen AI
Product for the people is an unconference for public sector product-ish people. The seventh edition was held in London on 4 April. Kicking…
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steve @visitmy.website · 11/04/2025
Karina’s gone and published her sketchnotes from @devmoran.bsky.social's talk too! medium.com/@karinasketc...
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Mindful friction for AI
Product for the people is an unconference for public sector product-ish people. The seventh edition was held in London on 4 April. Dev…
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Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com · 03/04/2025
The best thing I’ve read in ages. (Hat tip to @twice0.bsky.social for sharing originally.) brilliantcrank.com/eject-disk/
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Eject disk.
A manifesto for everyone stuck in the system that keeps crashing you. What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. A reckoning. And a call to return to ourselves before we try to ...
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Ross Ferg @rossferg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We've opened a ticket ballot for GovCamp Scotland 2025 www.govcamp.scot/tickets. Please register and spread the word 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Tickets — GovCamp Scotland
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Rob Cawston @cawston.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This promises to be a great opportunity to connect with people involved in digital across the public sector in Scotland. Tickets to be released next week…
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Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com · 24/03/2025
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/
21cmindset.com
Inquiry | 21st Century Mindset
Please complete this form to make an inquiry. I will be in touch A.S.A.P.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/02/2025
Klarna, the company that got so much press for dropping customer service and replacing them with AI, is now saying that they are now going to "become the best at offering a human to speak to." Great stuff!
We just had an epiphany: in a world of Al nothing will be as valuable as humans!
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Ok you can laugh at us for realizing it so late, but we are going to kick off work to allow Klarna to become the best at offering a human to speak to!!!
So excited about this, more to come!
We will continue to invest and improve our Al support. But the truth is the cost savings it generates and improvement in quality. Allows us to double down on making sure the human service part of Klarna becomes even better. More to come!
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Elbotting @elbotting.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Hello folks interested in user research! I've opened up a couple slots a week to offer free mentoring/advice/CV reviews. Take a look here: www.cyberwomen.co.uk/mentoring if you're keen
cyberwomen.co.uk
Mentoring | Cyber Women
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Mark Boyd @markboyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Love using Obsidian! Highly recommend
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Phil Rumens @rumens.uk · 06/02/2025
If you're involved with #localgov #digital then this event is for you. Meet with Theo Blackwell, who is looking at how the new digital centre might collaborate and innovate with local government to deliver the blueprint for modern digital government. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/73aad7...
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ProMo Cymru @promocymru.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Cyfle cyffrous i fod yn rhan o Fwrdd Ymddiriedolwyr ProMo Cymru ⭐️ Awyddus i groesawu wynebau newydd i greu bwrdd amrywiol a chynhwysol. Yn croesawu ceisiadau gan ferched ac unigolion o gefndiroedd lleiafrifoedd ethnig yn arbennig ✅ Manylion pellach yma: promo.cymru/cy/2025/02/0...
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ProMo Cymru @promocymru.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Great opportunity to join our Trustee Board. Click the link to find out more.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
DeepSeek took off in part because, in a first, it offered a reasoning model that explains to you what it's doing. Its success shows how little AI product teams have done so far to make their products appealing to normal people: www.platformer.news/deepseek-des...
How else could chatbots be made more appealing? The popularity of r1’s chain of thought suggests that they should communicate more about their process, and in particular offer the user guidance on how to refine their queries when they don’t get the answer they’re looking for. Just telling users how a chatbot understood their question seems to build an outsized amount of trust. 

I also think there’s something appealing about r1’s humility — in conveying its own lack of certainty, it sounds less like the authoritative robots we have come to expect and more like Star Wars’ C-3PO. That’s somewhat counterintuitive — I don’t know many people who think the final form of superintelligence is a bumbling droid — and yet too often we forget how alien and unapproachable these systems remain to all but the most devoted AI nerds.
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Coté @cote.io · 31/01/2025
"DOGE has become the great Wishing Well of political punditry." // The difficulties of IT modernization in large organizations, well explained in a mini-case study. It's always people and culture, etc. open.substack.com/pub/arnoldkl...
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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Hello 🙂 I'm looking for my next public sector role and would appreciate your support. Let me know if you hear of anything or wanna catch up. #OpenToWork 💼 Preferably agile delivery manager. 📜 Open to contract, permanent or temporary roles. 🌎 Remote or based in Manchester, London or Sheffield.
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Russell Todd @llannerch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
If anyone knows of any office furniture going spare in Cardiff, please let me know Gadewch i mi wybod o unrhyw ddodrefn swyddfa sbâr yng Nghaerdydd
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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
ddn't have this on my bing card
theverge.com
Microsoft is using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google
It’s the latest attempt to get people to use Bing instead of Google.
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Jonathan Flowers @jonathanflowers.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I think my #localgov chums would be fascinated by the podcast “The Fifth Floor” (Y Pumed Llawr) by former Welsh Government minister @waterslee.bsky.social . It’s a fascinating description of what happens when a huge _scope_ meets (relatively) limited _scale_ meets … a complex workforce environment.
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Neil Tamplin @neiltamplin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I must confess, I'm a bit of a 'dark mode' enjoyer. 🙋‍♂️ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
theatlantic.com
We’re All in ‘Dark Mode’ Now
How light-on-black became a way of life
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Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 02/01/2025
Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
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Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World
Marshall McLuhan’s theory that “the medium is the message” famously describes how media are not neutral. Rather, a medium’s nature has a deep impact on the very content of its messages. One…
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Paul Taylor @paulitaylor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Resilience comes in different flavours. Absorbing an unexpected shock and ‘bouncing back’, can cause a change, but retaining your purpose and identity is an important characteristic to survive in a volatile world. Be more salt marsh. - Chris Bolton whatsthepont.blog/2024/11/19/b...
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Neil Tamplin @neiltamplin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It amuses me that the dog thinks she’s perfectly camouflaged.
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Heledd Quaeck @helivans.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Any good e-recruitment software out there that align to Gds Standards? And also handle bilingual / multi-language
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Reposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed.
A flow chart titled: Should I say resources?
Do you mean people? 
If yes, say people
If no
Do you mean people and things?
If yes say People and the things
If no
Do you mean things?
If yes, say the things
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Dyfrig Williams @dyfrigw.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
"Cash strapped politicians are always on the lookout for quick fixes – which is fertile ground for bad ideas" paulitaylor.com/2024/10/20/t... < Really good post by @paulitaylor.bsky.social on the thinking behind the weight loss jobs
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The Anatomy of a Bad Idea
Bad ideas can share several features: They take a complex problem and apply a one-shot solution: the silver bullet that ignores the root cause. They are easy to understand, and don’t require …
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Neil Tamplin @neiltamplin.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
GovCamp Cymru is back! 🥳 Early bird tickets are available later today.
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GovCamp Cymru @govcampcymru.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Bore da! Newyddion cyffroes i ddod yn fuan! Good morning! Exciting news coming soon!
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Neil Tamplin @neiltamplin.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Has anyone come across any good guidance on responsible (if that’s the right word?) use of AI in the workplace?
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Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com · 15/08/2024
Any other NHS digital folk joined here in the past few days? Be great to build up a bit of a community here.
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Sarah Carter @ephemerawoman.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
TODAY'S BRILLIANT ROLE at Bristol City Council Assistive Technology Support Officer - tinyurl.com/2k38u6be
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Job profile
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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 16/08/2024
Saw this shared by @katebevan.com yesterday and it is *brilliant*. A very visual, and simple, explanation of how generative AI actually works.
ig.ft.com
Generative AI exists because of the transformer
The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation
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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
I've published, #blogclub for weeknotes" jacattell.medium.com/blogclub-for... by @jacattell.bsky.social (that's me). Published 15 August 20204. #blogging #weeknotes
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#blogclub for weeknotes
A prototype Friday afternoon space to join other bloggers and focus on typing your posts, weeknotes, etc. Hosted by James Arthur Cattell.
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Sarah Carter @ephemerawoman.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
If you'd like an informal chat on this or other roles that are coming up (Including IT and Digital Business Partner, Assistive Technology Support Officer, Senior Service Designer and User Researcher), my Calendly is here - calendly.com/sarahcarter_...
calendly.com
IT and Digital vacancies at Bristol City Council - Sarah Carter
Half hour chat with Sarah Carter from Bristol City Council about current IT and Digital vacancies. Please note, this is not an interview, it is an opportunity for an informal chat about the role, what...
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Sarah Carter @ephemerawoman.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
We are now going live with a number of roles at Bristole in IT and Digital, which means I get to talk to people before they apply to chat about the roles, the work and all that good stuff. First role is ce0389li.webitrent.com/ce0389li_web...
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Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
I wrote up my company’s AI policy a few weeks ago, and I’ve finally finished the longer post about why I’m planning to avoid it. It’s also intended to help folks who are trying to push back on the hype With lots of links to @zitron.bsky.social @parismarx.bsky.social and @techwontsave.us (of course)
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We deserve better than an AI-powered future — Character
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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 14/08/2024
A starter pack for adding folks who work in, with, adjacent to etc.. local government digital and transformation go.bsky.app/4Dx5Coq
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Neil Tamplin @neiltamplin.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
With a lot of people moving back to hosting their own blogs and also being spread across multiple social media networks that are not Twitter, I’ve decided to dust off RSS to keep all my regular blog reads in one pace.
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Phil Rumens @rumens.uk · 12/08/2024
We've launched our second Open Digital Planning (ODP) service, this time to report a potential planning breach. We were able adapt the work already completed by other councils, and it's further proof that this model enables #localgov to share and deliver new digital services with a lot less effort.
westberks.gov.uk
Launching our second open digital planning service - West Berkshire Council
We've launched our second open digital planning service
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Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
As noted by @helivans.bsky.social - For those working in the #PublicSector in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Wales, the GovCamp Cymru #Unconference is also set to take place this autumn. ⤵️ www.govcamp.cymru
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Home | GovCamp Cymru 23
GovCamp Cymru is an in-person unconference for those interested in reimagining public services.
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Si @cornwell.me.uk · 22/07/2024
Is there anyone I know that might be able to help?
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steve @visitmy.website · 18/07/2024
Sustainable, accessible website builder for anyone looking to start their own blog. sprout.site/en/
sprout.site
Sprout
Sprout* is a no-code website builder that helps you effortlessly create websites that emit 99% less CO2 in minutes
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 13/05/2024
Calling all Service Designers! Want to help work on an exciting genetic health project? We'll pay you money to do that! apply.workable.com/our-future-h...
apply.workable.com
Service Designer - Our Future Health
We have a new opportunity as a Service Designer to join our product team! We need a Service Designer to work on the design, delivery, and improvement of new and existing services at Our Future Health....
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