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Another great hire at Luton – welcome to James Bovington, joining as principal developer in the newly formed digital team. James is one of the most ingenious and thoughtful devs I’ve come across, so it’s fabulous having him on the…
Manton Reece, the creator of micro.blog, has released a new RSS reader, Inkwell. It has some interesting features: Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading. Today is for the latest blog posts. Recent is for posts…
Adrian Imms at the University of Sussex with a whole host of helpful thoughts following their experience significantly reducing the number of editors of the corporate website: In early February, we finally managed to centralise the editing of our public…
I have had the pleasure over the last couple of years of being a member of Woking Council’s Digital Design Authority. This is a group made up of a few senior members of the digital team at the Council, the…
Will Callaghan – who knows more about this stuff than most – shares his thoughts on how to be a better collaborator, based on his experience with the LocalGovDrupal project.
Lovely to see the new people joining the team in Luton, and introducing themselves on the blog. Welcome to my old pal Kev Rowe 😀
Simon Millier from Adur & Worthing Councils reports on progress with open digital planning (Medium warning): It’s been a busy and productive period for our multi-disciplinary team. As usual we’re balancing the Open Digital Planning project alongside day-to-day business as…
As an experiment, relating to some work I’m doing for a customer, I asked Google’s Gemini to do some deep research and write a report about the market for revenues and benefits systems for UK local government. You can read…
This is neat: Gazette is a lightweight Gmail-to-RSS bridge designed specifically for reading newsletters in standard RSS readers.
Diane Coyle, David Eaves, and Beatriz Vasconcellos – Digital Infrastructure: A government wouldn’t build a dozen roads connecting the same two places. But this happens often with digital services. Countries allocate billions to IT spending without realizing the need to…