All the links from the book

The agile comms handbook makes lots of references to websites. This is a complete list of all the links mentioned in the text, chapter-by-chapter.

Introduction

• Amy McNichol, editor
• Sonia Turcotte, designer
• Russell Davies

ego.html

• A guide to agile communication

Everyone is already too busy, most of the time

Agile comms is fast and flexible

• Agile manifesto

Agile comms creates layers of information

• Mary Beard, classicist
• Alice Roberts, biological anthropologist
• Chris Jackson, geologist
• The DataLab - NOTE: Shortly after the book was published, The DataLab changed its name and website somewhat. It is now the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. The blog posts and OpenPrescribing website are still there, but you might need to dig a little deeper to find them (thanks to Neil Vass for spotting this and alerting me to it)
• OpenPrescribing

Agile comms moves as fast as the work does

• Janet Hughes at Defra

Show how you make the humbugs

• Video: inside the humbugs factory
• Wikipedia page about humbugs

Working in the open means being open about the work

• Government Design Principles
• GDS blog post about patents

Collecting raw materials to help you show the thing

• Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Digital Land team
• Digital Land team weeknote, 21 October 2020

Why you should blog, and how to do it well

• Cory Doctorow on 20 years of blogging
• GOV.UK Notify
• Pete Herlihy’s posts on the GDS blog
• A GDS Story - a narrative history of work over time
• Amazon’s corporate positions
• Whitfords - where we stand
• Careful Industries

Blogging is a state of mind

• Miro
• Mural
• Equity and inclusion in NHS Digital products and services

Communicating with slides

• Maciej Cegłowski’s talks
• Matt Webb’s talks
• Ella Fitzsimmons
• Russell Davies
• Matt Sheret
• Russell’s book: Everything I Know About Life, I Learned From PowerPoint
• Doing Presentations

Communicating with video

• Bulb: Huggin Farm
• Bulb: Bro Dyfi Community Wind Project

Creative writing in corporate life

• Defra blog post about egg inspections
• Shannon Hale’s quote
• Shannon Hale

Establishing an agile editorial process

Use the words that humans use

• Content Design
• Monzo

Tips for writing

Making plans for agile communication

• Michael Pollan - In defense of food
• Emily Webber - The team onion
• Jamie Arnold - Everyone loves a roadmap

Agile comms for internal comms

What leaders can do to help

• Churchill’s brevity memo

How to set up a creative team

• Ali Kelly
• Zara Farrar

Agile comms is ok

Yes, it really is.

Acknowledgements

• A guide to agile communication (again)
• Open Government Licence
• Author’s work-related blog posts

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