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My Name Is URL

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Steph

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 →

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24tips: share code snippets

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Steph

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 →

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Flexible bookmarklists: your friendly listing of Delicious-tagged items

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Steph

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 →

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Which constituency is that in?

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Steph

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 →

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