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Colin Stenning has updated his survey of what content management systems are used across local government – this time, with maps!
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
New resource added to the digital LGR playbook by the team – Cyber readiness. Ensuring a new unitary council can protect data, detect threats, maintain secure access, and keep critical services running from day one.
Terence Eden – How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?: When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is…
I don’t entirely understand this, but it sure is interesting: With my.WordPress.net, WordPress runs entirely and persistently in your browser. There’s no sign-up, no hosting plan, and no domain decision standing between you and getting started. Built on WordPress Playground,…
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…
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…
The Centre for Digital Public Services in Wales has published some service patterns, exploring the ‘Book’ and ‘Apply’ patterns. It’s good stuff and to make it really useful, more needs to be done, to embed these ‘patterns’ as steps in…
There was a time when MacOS was lauded for the quality of its design and user experience.
Doug Belshaw – The (AI) Lottery Is Already Running: AI tools arrived as things you could choose to try: chatbots, image generators, and the like. Pretty quickly, though, they’ve become things employers expect to be used, positioned as ‘things your…