Category Archives: Issue 1

Intranets and usability

It’s now been a little over a decade since I designed and built my first Intranet. I had been building websites for a university for some years, but my first Intranet was my first public service job, and my first experience of how government handles internal communications and knowledge sharing.
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Tweeting the live local challenge

Twitter, the latest social networking tool to reach global proportions, offers a great deal of potential, and also a great deal of hype. Media outlets around the world took notice of Twitter this year, and its use as an organising and information tool in Iran after elections in June put to rest suggestions that the microblogging [...]
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Coffee Theory

Ask web professionals about the tools they use, and it’s likely they’ll start  talking about hardware, software and web applications. That’s understandable, but it’s not the whole picture. I believe things like software pale in comparison with the most powerful tool available: coffee. I’m not talking about caffeine. What I’m talking about is the power of informal [...]
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OOOG! Uh what is it good for?

Let’s start out by defining what OOOG is shall we? OOOG stands for Open source, Open standards, Open Government. It started out as a personal standard that I used when judging the suitability of a project or solution for use with Gov2.0/LocGov2.0 work.
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Digital communication – ignore it at our own peril

The days when Local Government could rely on their local newspaper and radio station to get their message to their community are long gone. Recent events in Iran and China have highlighted the power of electronic media and social networking as a communications tool.
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