Archive for the ‘Usability’ Category

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by by Sarah

Power to the People (reprise)

I first blogged asking for people to share their experience of devolving authorship responsibility back in June. From the response I had then and since it seems that this is a thorny issue that many of us (as local government web people) are grappling with.
As a theory, creating content for an organisation’s website and sharing [...]

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Posted on August 19th, 2009 by by Sarah

Search-centric vs the signpost

There have been a couple of revamps of council websites recently which are far more than a coat of fresh CSS. Westminster and Lancashire have gone all Googly and made their primary (as in the one they push at visitors) navigation a search engine.
This is a big shift away from the standard for local government [...]

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Posted on August 13th, 2009 by by Sarah

Getting the conversation started

I gave a presentation last week to other teams in the public relations division here. They covered an overview of social media and its use in online communications.
Generally I think the presentations were well received and hopefully will help us make some moves on updating existing policies and making use of relevant social media to [...]

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