Speakers
Matt Jukes
The power, peril and privilege of working in the open
After 20 years of blogging, 15 years of social media and 10 years of public speaking it is safe to say Matt’s professional life (and no small amount of his personal life) has been played out in public - albeit to a niche audience.
What, other than narcissism, was the point? Has it helped or hindered his career? Do employers or clients complain? Does he worry about strangers knowing so much about his life?
He’ll cover the good, the bad and the ugly of his adventures in openness over the last couple of decades and then, finally, he’ll shut up.
Matt is a veteran of the UK digital government / civic tech scene who has been stumbling through his career since the late 1990s - an era where he was proud to call himself a Webmaster.
These days he is best known for doing a weekly newsletter consisting of digital jobs in UK public service, blogging like it is 2003 and having a seemingly endless supply of laptop stickers to share out…but has also worked at the Office for National Statistics, the BBC, mySociety, the Department for Business and Trade and most recently the Government Digital Service.
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After 20 years of blogging, 15 years of social media and 10 years of public speaking it is safe to say Matt’s professional life (and no small amount of his personal life) has been played out in public - albeit to a niche audience.
What, other than narcissism, was the point? Has it helped or hindered his career? Do employers or clients complain? Does he worry about strangers knowing so much about his life?
He’ll cover the good, the bad and the ugly of his adventures in openness over the last couple of decades and then, finally, he’ll shut up.
These days he is best known for doing a weekly newsletter consisting of digital jobs in UK public service, blogging like it is 2003 and having a seemingly endless supply of laptop stickers to share out…but has also worked at the Office for National Statistics, the BBC, mySociety, the Department for Business and Trade and most recently the Government Digital Service.