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What is that beautiful house?

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 3 October 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

Open Source Content Management Systems like Drupal and WordPress have been gaining a lot of ground in recent years, with governments around the world adopting them. Drupal in particular has attracted a lot of fanfare as numerous high profile US …

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Piloting new ways of measuring digital success

Posted by: Joanne Inskip, Posted on: 27 September 2011 - Categories: Data

...to thoroughly road test the methodology. The survey ran for a week and collected 266 responses. Lessons learnt The pilot study returned a wealth of data, which we in the...

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Facebook and Government - A workshop

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 26 September 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement, GDS team

...City Council, David Bailey from Staffordshire Police and my own colleague from DFID: Simon Davis. Hard to know where to start with the Facebook hints – but in essence, the...

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What a great turnout for the first Agile Tea Camp

Posted by: Abby Peel, Posted on: 26 September 2011 - Categories: GDS team

...set the scene to Agile Tea: simply, an opportunity for people that work with Agile principles to get together, informally and open to everyone, on the third Thursday of every...

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Building APIs, building on APIs

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 22 September 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK, Technology

Public APIs are a vital feature of the modern web. Whether you're looking at the ecosystem of Twitter and Facebook apps, tools for managing auctions on ebay, or code for embedding Youtube videos in a blog post, clear ways of …

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Introducing the Needotron: working out the shape of the product

Posted by: Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 19 September 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

...It is essential that the shape of the product will continually iterate throughout its life, as will its underlying code, design, user interface and content. Starting the long journey from...

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The First AgileTea Meeting

Posted by: Abby Peel, Posted on: 13 September 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement

...regular basis over tea and cake. Each AgileTea meeting will have guest speakers, anyone can nominate themselves and it is open to all who wants to share ideas, chat with...

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Accessibility and the Single Government Domain

Posted by: Léonie Watson, Posted on: 5 September 2011 - Categories: Accessibility, GOV.UK

Hello! I'm Léonie Watson. I'm working with Government Digital Service (GDS) on the accessibility of the beta site. This is the first of a series of accessibility focused posts I'll be putting together over the next few months.

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Teacamp September 2011: Open Knowledge Foundation and Scraperwiki

Posted by: Jane O'Loughlin, Posted on: 5 September 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement, Technology

...Beeman and @GlynWintle talking about @Linkedgov • @StevenRWilkes from the Home Office, talking about the digital engagement strand of the government ICT strategy Next teacamps are: 6 October, 3 November,...

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Government corporate websites in eye-popping 3D

Posted by: Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 24 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

This is the first of a series of posts about how I'm taking forward objective two of the single domain project: the "private beta test of a shared 'corporate' publishing platform aimed at replacing most of the activity currently hosted …

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