As public purse strings tighten, councils will inevitably be tempted to break what many in local government regard as the last and most powerful taboo: Placing commercial adverts on their websites. Leading the way in this field has been Lincolnshire County Council, who I spoke with back in 2008 when they were experimenting with carrying paid-for [...]
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Grand Re-Designs
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Post-eGov
A quick peruse of MySociety’s excellent TheyWorkForYou.com reveals the Conservatives have been rather busy lately tabling a raft of parliamentary questions (PQs) – several dozen in fact – about the cost of redesigning government websites. Specifically, the sums spent by Whitehall on revamping their web offerings since 27 June 2007, the date Tony Blair handed over the reins [...]
Tags:government·metrics·online content·performance·transformational government·transparency·user satisfaction·websites
Latest Gov Web Guidance Unleashed
June 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Government websites are to get a new set of national performance indicators to compare how well they perform against other sites, it transpires. The 'Web Performance Management Framework' (PMF) as it is called is currently being developed by the Cabinet Office's Contact Council unit. Details of the work were disclosed in new government web guidelines [...]
Tags:benchmarking·government·guidelines·KPIs·metrics·nao·performance·PMF·toolkits·user satisfaction·varney·wcag·websites
The FOI Files: Say Hello to Point of Single Contact
April 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Councils will be commanded to provide content for a new, Local Directgov-style government website for businesses which may have significant IT implications for local authorities, it transpires. Under the plans, councils will be 'required' to identify pages on their websites covering information and services for businesses and supply a list of weblinks. These 'deep-links' will [...]
Tags:business information·FOI·government IT·websites·Whitehall
Mashing the State: Campaigners Target Council Websites
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Published: 3 April 2009 A new national campaign kicks off on Monday to get every UK council website using RSS news feeds, PSF can report. For the uninitiated, an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is basically a listing of story headlines which gets updated whenever new content is published. Virtually all blogs and most news [...]
