Category Archives: Issue 2

stories: issue 2 – July 2010

Hello and welcome to issue two I am very excited and pleased to bring you this second issue of our community magazine. Coming into our third year of existence, and looking down the barrel of our third annual conference, it’s very gratifying to see where we started and how far we’ve come since then. Yet [...]
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Your Web Team Needs a Librarian

One of the problems with many local government web sites is that the responsibility for creating and maintaining the web site falls under the authority of the Marketing/Communications department or the IT department. While there are undoubtedly clever people employed in marketing and IT they are often not web specialists and not well placed to maintain and develop outstanding user experiences on local government web sites. This article argues for the implementation of web teams and the inclusion of librarians on those web teams.
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An invitation to Edit > Remix > Improve Project 8

In what felt like a blink of an eye, the Federal Government’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce appeared in June last year, made its investigations and then had wrapped up by December just as quickly as it had started. From a local government perspective, you might well have ignored the whole process – particularly if you focus [...]
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