Archive for December, 2009

Useful links and resources – Oct – 4th Dec

04 Dec

Posted by: Michele Ide-Smith in: LocalGov, Social Media, User experience

I’m pretty lame at blogging bookmarks, but I’ve found a few juicy things recently. Promote the Vote is a fantastic site promoting the vote (obviously) for people with learning disabilities which has been led by Speaking Up in my home town Cambridge. Great design, content and videos. Designed by Easy Read Online. On a similar [...]

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Lessons learnt from user testing (embedding usability in local government part 3)

01 Dec

Posted by: Michele Ide-Smith in: LocalGov, User experience

A few months back I blogged about getting the teams up to speed with user testing. Since then we’ve tried a few things out and learnt a bit along the way about planning and running the tests. We’ve expended a fair bit of effort in getting some processes up and running, but hopefully next time [...]

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Linking hyperlocal blog posts and councillors: a simple solution
Apr 25, 2010
Great stuff Chris. I imagine you are right that many councils won’t have a pingback client. Although I know a few are starting to implement Drupal, their press releases may be in a separate system. I also suspect many councils would link to...
A way of involving the ‘hard-to-reach’ groups and the expense of...
Feb 14, 2010
Interesting post Paul. Can you share any of the research you’ve done into mobile phone platforms for surveys? Would make an interesting read. I’m working on an engagement project at the moment where we’re keen to have an option...
Community Ambassadors – bit of a rethink and a really long list….
Feb 2, 2010
This is really interesting Catherine, so thanks for sharing. Not least because I was drawing up a role ‘description’ for our community champion role a couple of weeks ago, which is very similar to your community ambassador role. The...
UKGC10 Session two: Socialising Internal Communications
Jan 26, 2010
Great notes Sharon! You’ve captured the main points really well. I was obviously doing too much talking and not enough note writing…
LocalGov group hug*
Jan 25, 2010
I think there were some really good points in this session about the value of the JFDI approach. I don’t think you came across as blasé at all. But I do think it’s harder for staff who have a good grasp of using social media to take...
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