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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?
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A vision for engagement and participation online
Neil has blogged some thoughts and slides on digital engagement that he worked on with Simon Dickson and me, on the fringes of the Alphagov project. (Literally the fringes, we were sat round a forlorn a set of pedestal drawers, … Continue reading
Would you like sauce with your policy?
On balance, today was a good day for more progressive approaches to online consultation by government. The BIS team were out of the blocks early with a nice little consultation site for the proposed changes to parental leave which explains … Continue reading
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Tagged bis, consultation, DCMS, digital engagement, george osborne, open source policymaking
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ConsultationXML goes open source
As Harry’s explained over on The Dextrous Web, we’ve just open sourced the code behind ConsultationXML, the tool we’ve been working on which turns consultation PDF files into XML. It’s a 0.1 release so still full of bugs, but at … Continue reading
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Tagged #ukgovoss, consultation, Development, Government, harry metcalfe, open source, xml
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Freeing data, reducing pain
At Barcamp on Saturday, Harry Metcalfe of TellThemWhatYouThink and I presented some work we’ve been doing to build a web application which makes it easier to turn PDF versions of consultation documents into structured XML. Before you click on to … Continue reading
New Opportunities
The challenge for ‘government 2.0 sites’ (a phrase I feel slightly dirty for using) which aim to engage beyond the core stakeholder audience, is to come up with an experience which fits with the content of the policy, builds credibility … Continue reading
2009: The year of Less
I’m not going to store up humiliation for myself by posting predictions or New Year’s resolutions for ’09, but from where I’m sitting, I’d say the big theme will be Less. And I’m not being entirely pessimistic. It goes more … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, consultation, Government, networks, participation, predictions, social media, strategy, suppliers, training
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Introducing Commentariat & the POI Taskforce Report
I’ve written before about the perennial problem of publishing documents online for comment. The solutions either seem to be clunky, laborious to setup or use, or problematically inaccessible to users without Javascript. The problem remains, but there’s an extra option … Continue reading →