Dave

Dave

Good news – New pilot to help councils identify and support residents at risk to vulnerability earlier: Local Digital is pleased to share that the Scalable Approach to Vulnerability via Interoperability (SAVVI) and Open Referral UK (ORUK) data standards are…

An excellent blog to follow for nerds like me that love old software.

Steph Tucker – An observation: many government content style guides exist, but they’re rarely used in practice (LinkedIn warning): A much better approach is to make content patterns and standards an active team practice. You can do this by running…

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…

On the benefits of a bit of external scrutiny

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…