Monday, 31 October, 2011

Thursday, 20 October, 2011

What I’ve been reading

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Getting the digital debate going – Jimmy Leach announces the FCO's conference on cyberspace. Sounds interesting! Mid year review: the state of DH digital – Great honest review of activity…

Wednesday, 19 October, 2011

Tuesday, 18 October, 2011

Thursday, 13 October, 2011

Getting digital engagement right

Today I gave a talk at the CIPR public services communications conference. In case they are handy, here are the slides: Getting digital engagement right View more presentations from Kind of Digital.

Monday, 10 October, 2011

Saturday, 8 October, 2011

Shelter Housing Database

Another useful open data visualisation resource, this time from Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity. The Shelter Housing Database“brings together government data on housing need, supply, affordability and other issues at a local, regional and national level”, allowing you to produce graphs…

Friday, 7 October, 2011

Birmingham Civic Dashboard

The Birmingham Civic Dashboard is a neat project from the City Council that reports the requests made for services from the organisation and visualises them in interesting ways, such as by plotting them on a map. It was funded by…

Monday, 3 October, 2011

Houses and clouds

The Government Digital Service blog is essential reading. Two recent posts well worth a look: What is that beautiful house? The phrase “not a CMS” has become a bit of a joke around the GovUK office (to the point where…