The speed with which the American federal government has been moving forward with its web agenda is nothing short of breath-taking. From open data to social media, mobile and beyond, the American government’s online presence has been transforming itself. So fast in fact that a whole industry has sprung up to watch and report on [...]
Archive for the ‘web communications’ Category
Putting Web at the Centre of Government
Posted in bureaucracy, government, web communications, tagged CLF, TBS, web management on 13 July 2010 | 6 Comments »
I’ve Found my Work Plan
Posted in government, uncategorized, web communications on 22 March 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Continuous improvement” is my mantra. I see managing web presences in the government context as the art of making small interventions that add up to result in a better user experience. It’s a survival tactic really — if I don’t break down the challenges inherent in a huge, complex and confusing government website into smaller, [...]
Canadian Heritage – This Web Site Will Be Changing Soon
Posted in government, web communications, tagged GoC, Heritage Canada on 19 March 2010 | 1 Comment »
Canadian Heritage – This Web site will be changing soon. So the Department of Heritage (www.pch.gc.ca) will be changing their website, and they’ve telegraphed ahead with the following notice to site visitors: Before the end of March 2010, you will notice several improvements to the Canadian Heritage Web site, and many more changes will be [...]
Usability = Brand
Posted in branding, government, web communications, tagged brand attributes, Gerry McGovern, usability, ux on 1 February 2010 | 1 Comment »
Some thoughts on branding in the online space, from a recent issue of Gerry McGovern’s New Thinking newsletter. The set-up: he’s just gone through a litany of UX problems with the websites of many major Irish banks. Here’s the kicker: This isn’t usability. This isn’t interface design. This is branding. This is marketing. This is [...]
On Mobile Again
Posted in government, web communications, tagged mobile on 16 December 2009 | 1 Comment »
From: @jowyang
Sent: Dec 16, 2009 06:47
Interesting article. A war between Google, Microsoft, and Apple. The battleground? Mobile http://bit.ly/80CT44
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On Mobile Again
Posted in government, web communications, tagged mobile on 16 December 2009 |
From: @jowyang
Sent: Dec 16, 2009 06:47
Interesting article. A war between Google, Microsoft, and Apple. The battleground? Mobile http://bit.ly/80CT44
sent via web
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/jowyang/status/6727807574
Big Thinkers » Blog Archive » John Naughton session feedback
Posted in observations, Web 2.0, web communications on 20 October 2009 |
On 29th April Professor John Naughton, the first of our ‘Big Thinkers’, presented his view on the growth of internet and its implications for comms. He made 7 key points: 1. We need to see the ongoing changes in our digital ecosystem in some kind of long-term perspective. In that sense, what happened with print is probably the best historical [...]
RSS Feeds: Full or Partial?
Posted in government, Web 2.0, web communications, tagged feeds, full text, partial text, RSS, summary on 27 August 2009 | 3 Comments »
A reasonable and succinct explanation of RSS feeds: A family of web-feed formats used to publish frequently updated content, such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. Called a “feed, web feed or channel,” RSS that stands for “Really Simple Syndication,” contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full [...]
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