Development

Saving your hashtagged tweets: SearchHash

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Steph

You’ve organised or participated in a great event about how technology is changing the shape of X, Y or Z. The audience were tweeting away, and an expectant crowd outside the room were following the #coolevent hashtag avidly. You take … Continue reading →

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Reading: keeping on top of stuff I save

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Steph

Neil struck a chord with me a while ago in a post about his iPhone apps, where he described Instapaper, for him, as the place ‘where saved webpages go to die’. Like a lot of people, I use services like … Continue reading →

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Stimulating informed debate around AV

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Steph

Six weeks ago, Dave Briggs kicked off a little project which he described as follows: I’m rather interested in the referendum that we are going get get next May in the UK about changing our voting system. It occurs to … Continue reading →

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Open data on the cheap

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Steph

Jimmy Leach, Head of Digital Diplomacy at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office blogged earlier about a quiet little project his team have rolled out, using extended RSS 2.0 feeds to provide access to the FCO’s travel advice data. As he … Continue reading →

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Newsroom: the backstory

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Steph

Cast your mind back if you will to chilly February, amid the growing crescendo/death spiral of pre-election communications. Neil and his team were finishing off the new corporate website, having shunned friends and family for weekends on end. A member … Continue reading →

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Public Appointments by RSS

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Steph

In the words of Directgov: A public appointment is an appointment to the board of a public body or to a government committee. Around 18,500 men and women hold a public appointment. The public bodies involved are quite important, including … Continue reading →

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Adding RDFa to a consultation

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Steph

Recently, I’ve been involved in a project to ensure our consultations support RDFa markup, to make them indexable and reusable by third parties, including Directgov. Without duplicating the quite accessible and useful COI guidance, I thought I’d summarise here the … Continue reading →

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Should you learn to code?

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Steph

I was never a born project manager. I didn’t have the organisational skills, the discipline or indeed a sufficient dislike of my colleagues to want to inflict upon them the highlight reports, gantt charts and benefits realisation plans needed for … Continue reading →

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The Audacity of Growth

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Steph

If there’s one thing Barack Obama taught us about the power of digital by the manner of his election, it’s that email still counts (and, for that matter, still works when you’re in government). For a while, I’ve been determined … Continue reading →

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Minding the shop

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Steph

In my line of work, keeping track of the threads is half the battle. At work, we have (for now) three corporate sites, a sandbox, a development environment, and more. We have social media channels – some corporately-managed, many managed … Continue reading →

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