Rupert Bowater

Into data vis & vis thinking, service design, black tea and warm beer. Thought follower. Co-org @webstandards
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@apoliticalco @B_I_Tweets @FiveMinuteEcon @hubertwu16 At the moment procurement is a system without a memory. Neither a benefit to those who deliver quality work, collaborating with the client with a 'one team' approach not any warning to those seeming impressive who field charming silverbacks at pitches then never seen again

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@robram Yep. Bloody idea has got everywhere. Think it originated in Oz. Spurious end-to-end and for good measure it ignores other sources like food. Now that so many of us buy water someone has an incentive to keep pushing it...

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

Wedge is hugely well informed and would be a great podcast guest

[Wedge 🦋 @wedge.black @Wedge]

How are your New Year resolutions going?

I have successfully not launched a podcast, so that’s good news.

But I’d love to be a guest on yours if you care about the digital workplace, collaboration, and communication.

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@Slasla12 They have to have something to keep their blood moving. Besides, I'm local and going Wednesday to see, my wife says it's fantastic

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@KEWbm @kewgardens Totally agree although some locals feel it has 'ruined the gardens ' for them!

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@maxcbc @hthjones @DefenceHQ And see whether a culture that supported people referring to female personnel as 'lumpy jumpers' has wholly changed?

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@sharonodea @mims With curves, no less. Used as a development machine for games in this case

[Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish]

"To build world class software, we need everyone to be inside this building."

Developer: *Installs 9 trillion packages written outside this building"

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

Help! I can only see my Twitter bookmarks back to the start of Feb. Anyone know how I get further back?

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@LiamDevaney Looking, erm, fit

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Just turned on breakfast news half way through a feature on a new Pixar film about a furious toby jug that comes to life and can’t find its way back to a mythical kingdom and then I realised it was just Mark Francois interview.

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@cabaretVScancer Cheers

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@IntranetFocus You're a standout

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@IntranetFocus retweeting something of yours earlier acted as a belated reminder to thank you for all the great stuff you post.

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

@ballantine70 @sharonodea Sure is. One thing about MS stuff though is it used to be slow to change, admittedly to some disadvantage, now its putting the same users through continual relearning as it chases Slack et al?
Of course, I'm an old git, but few of us are immersed in using just one or two tools

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This sort of thing may well be prevalent with Teams too? 'Quick, let's improve the UI now the user is half-familiar with it'?- I have no idea but certainly wouldn't be surprised @sharonodea @ballantine70

[Martin White @IntranetFocus]

Since 1 Jan 2019 I have received 33 messages from the Office 365 Message Center about changes to O365. This excludes the weekly summaries. How on earth does Microsoft expect any IT department (and Office users) to cope with this level of change management

[Rupert Bowater @RupertLB]

The only game in town. Something for everyone working with intranets

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@thompsonsimon First I read of his. Keep thinking about him when reading about sundry tech madness - eg the outer fringes of IoT, or 'smart' homes.