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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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My Name Is URL
One little enhancement I’ve made recently to my social media training and crisis communications platform, the Social Simulator, is a domain-specific URL shortener. The idea is, since we’re simulating Twitter and now Facebook in a private environment, we really ought … Continue reading
24tips: share code snippets
16 Dec: even if you’re not a professional developer, chances are you need to share snippets of code now and again – maybe emailing a colleague that Google Analytics tracking code snippet, or the template for a special CMS page, … Continue reading
Flexible bookmarklists: your friendly listing of Delicious-tagged items
A post over on the CILIP blog got me thinking about a couple of minor tweaks to the software behind digitalgovuk (which, lacking inspiration, I’ve called Bookmarklist. Rather than hard coding the base tag, we could make the URL a … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Featured
Tagged bookmarks, code, delicious, Development, digitalgovuk, social media
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Which constituency is that in?
I’m learning that old skool stakeholder engagement involves a lot of spreadsheets. We needed to work out which UK Parliamentary constituencies some organisations were in, to identify who needed to be contacted about an issue. 400 organisations, in fact. Could … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Featured
Tagged code, constituencies, Development, Government, politics, tools
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