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Personas and profiling (who needs the FBI?)
We’ve talked before about some of the UX methods we use, and our mantra “design for the user”, but two very important questions we need to ask are, “Who exactly are our users?” and “How do we get team…
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My first year with Project WIP
I’m Dan, the web designer/developer for the Digital Services team (aka Project WIP) at Shropshire Council, and this is a look into where I came from and what I've achieved in the year since I started…
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Let’s do a little experiment… what’s the worst that can happen?
You may well have seen that during November we ran a 4 week pilot, trialling the use of WhatsApp as a potential communications channel. It certainly got a lot more exposure than I could have expected…
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umbLocalGov 2 - the (belated) round-up
First of all, I have to apologise for the delay in writing this round-up post... it's been the usual case of getting my head stuck in the day-to-day jobs and meetings and, before I've known it, months…
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umbLocalGov 2 - will you be attending?
Following a lot of questions over social media, and from meeting others at various public sector events, we have put together another free - yes, FREE - "Umbraco in Local Government" event for the aft…
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Much ado about Parking
Last week we pushed out our latest addition to new.shropshire.gov.uk, the Parking pages, occasionally known as "those bl**dy parking pages" in the office. Just to be clear, we've got plenty of love f…
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Thoughts from a #localgovcamp newbie - part 2
Following on from part 1 of this post, it's time to talk about the main LocalGovCamp event... The unconference I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from this day, but from the tales of attendees of…
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Thoughts from a #localgovcamp newbie - part 1
Anyone working in local government over the last few years should have heard about LocalGovCamp, and the melting pot of people and ideas that has jump started a number of different schemes and project…