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World Wide Waste

Digital is physical. Digital is not green. Digital costs the Earth. Every time I download an email I
contribute to global warming.
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Speaking Engagements

  • e-Gov Conference, Rotterdam, Nov 19
  • An Event Apart, Denver, Oct 2019
  • An Event Apart, Boston, May 2019
  • UXiCT, Manchester, Mar 2019
  • An Event Apart, Seattle, March 2019
  • An Event Apart, Washington, Aug 2018
  • An Event Apart, Boston, June 2018
  • Dutch Communications Conference, June 2018
  • Euprio2018, Seville, June 2018
  • Confab, Minneapolis, May 2018
  • An Event Apart, Seattle, Apr 2018
  • Canada.ca Masterclasses, Feb 2018
  • An Event Apart, Denver, Dec 2017
  • Content Marketing, Utrecht, Nov 2017
  • UX Brighton, London, Nov 2017
  • Webdagene, Oslo, Oct 2017

Chapters

  • Introduction: Why digital is killing our planet
  • Junkies and wasters
  • Where’s the productivity?
  • Not healthy
  • Energy drain
  • Big sugar, big data
  • Exploding plastic inevitable
  • Fashionwaste
  • Phonewaste
  • Webwaste
  • Cloudwaste
  • Ads are the oil industry of the Web
  • AI Rising
  • Cheap speed
  • World Wide Worth
  • Change is always possible
  • Changing my behavior

Books by Gerry

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World Wide Waste

Digital is physical. Digital is not green. Digital costs the Earth. Every time I download an email I
contribute to global warming.
Read a chapter
Buy now

  • Top Tasks – A how-to guide

    The Top Tasks methodology delivers an unparalleled glimpse into the minds of customers, even for organizations that are skeptical of user research.

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  • Transform: A rebel’s guide for digital transformation

    Are you a rebel? Are you a digital change agent? Do you want to transform your organization? Then this book is here to help you.

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  • The Stranger’s Long Neck

    The Stranger’s Long Neck will help you to maximize your organization’s performance online.

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  • Killer Web Content

    Killer Web Content gives you the strategies and techniques you need to get the most from your Web content.

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  • The Web Content Style Guide

    The essential guide for online writers, editors and managers.

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  • Content Critical

    Gaining competitive advantage through high-quality web content.

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  • The Caring Economy

    Gerry McGovern presents a radical vision of Internet business, which has a surprisingly human face.

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Interviews and Long Articles

Mapping the ‘information’ genome for coronavirus (COVID-19) (June 2020)

Most of customer experience is cleaning and sweeping – Adrian Swinscoe podcast (Sep, 2018)
Customer experience, on steroids! – Marketing Speak podcast (Sep, 2018)
Customer Top Tasks with Gerry McGovern – UI Breakfast Podcast (Aug, 2018)
The repositioning of trust in society – THIS IS HCD podcast (July, 2018)

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