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I’m reading (and may or may not agree with)- bisgovuk: Audioboo: Undergraduate placement students at Vauxhall give their reaction to Ellesmere Port announcement http://t.co/vIpNLN1Q
- AlisonLDaniels: UK Internet Users Turn to Social Media for Customer Service @TheNextWeb http://t.co/KMveM9Z0 (via @chrisevans39 )
- paullewismoney: Q&A on trading online and when tax may be due on the HMRC timeline @HMRCgovuk and news here http://t.co/scifpGIo
- How to automatically create meta description from content
- CampaignMonitor: What happens when you hit 'Send' in @Gmail? Find out with 'Story of Send': http://t.co/kMq6amkR #email #cute ^RH
- markjaquith: Here's the under-the-hood look at how I built "Have Baby. Need Stuff!" — Code snippets included! http://t.co/5LaJcp9H
- GerryHassan: Serco the parallel privatised state analysed. They run they UK independent nuclear deterrent you know! @bellacaledonia http://t.co/ImMYyyMF
- marilyneb: @mdgreyhound That second photo looks a bit more cheerful than the first. Has it brightened up yet?
- Are digital public services finally set to become a reality?
- Tips and best practices to develop responsive websites
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The Helpful Technology blog, written by Steph Gray
Farewell @neillyneil
So he’s off. Neil Williams, head of digital at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills today swaps pinstripes for his dress-down trademark hoody and joins the growing team at GDS. To be fair, he’s been there on and off … Continue reading
The year of living helpfully
It’s been 18 months since I last walked the mean streets of Westminster as a civil servant. There are things I miss about the old lifestyle: having the scope to run with projects on the ‘inside’, being in the loop on … Continue reading
Day 25 #helpful24: 24 tools, tips and tricks for smart web people
This year I’ll be sharing some of my favourite tools and tutorials to help you do clever things on the web, one per day in the run up to Christmas. Continue reading
Posted in 24tips, Blog
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Walk a mile in our sandals
I’ve written a piece for the Guardian’s Public Leaders Network on UKGovcamp, as part our plan to broaden the reach of UKGovcamp in 2012: Informal, social-media driven events like UKGovcamp and the recent WordUp Whitehall have an important role in bringing together SME suppliers, open source … Continue reading
Making WordPress accessible to AAA
At Simon’s recent WordUp Whitehall event, I presented on the process I went through on a project with BIS/DCMS to create a discussion platform for the eAccessibility Forum. The site went live yesterday, thanks to the sterling efforts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog
Tagged accessibility, DCMS, eaccessibility forum, WordPress, wordupwhitehall
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How to kill off a brief
It’s one thing to run a pitch, compare proposals, pick one, and turn down the others. It’s sometimes hard on the losers, but people know where they stand: they tried, they didn’t get it. But sometimes it’s not as clear … Continue reading
Whitehall in WordPress
The clue was in the 150pt slide Simon put up at the start of the day, but actually I think he was just catalysing a conclusion most of the participants in Whitehall’s second WordUp event came to independently: we’re on the … Continue reading
Taking government APIs seriously
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a Monday afternoon at a stakeholder event hosted by the Cabinet Office’s Transparency team on their Making Open Data Real consultation, with an interesting crowd of developers and users of public data products. … Continue reading
Towards a Global Experience Language for the Single Domain
As someone on the fringes of the Single Domain project (AKA Alphagov), conversations in recent months have often turned to the ‘global experience language’ in development, as in: “well, X will need to fit with the GEL…” The GEL is … Continue reading
A very British election
Just a quick post to flag a little site launched last month for a modest and little-known public figure, reported to be the first Briton to give £1bn to charitable causes, and the third longest-serving minister of the New Labour … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Case study
Tagged cambridge chancellor, election, html5, lord sainsbury, WordPress
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