We thought it would be interesting to show you how much digital interactions we have from our online services. Starting small with our website numbers (Kingston.gov..uk and Sutton.gov.uk) and building from there, because well its a lot of counting. So drum roll please……presenting our digital interactions from the cold cold winter months (December, January, February […]
KSDIGITALAs we mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 (GAAD), I find myself reflecting on the last year and a half, and what accessibility now means to us and our website. On 23 September 2018, accessibility regulations for local authority websites and apps came into force. We were given some time to make sure our website […]
Digital StockportNext.js offers a feature called Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) that allows you to generate a static page when the page is first visited, rather than generating a static copy at build time. This is a really handy feature as it allows you to reduce your build time, but still benefit from having a cache of […]
C.S. RhymesFollowing on from a 12 week discovery last year, we are now working towards a new website to make sure the Local Offer website provides what young people and their families in Essex need.
Service TransformationAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 2.2 billion people globally have some form of visual impairment. As designers, it’s down to us to ensure that those with visual impairments or deficiencies can access content with the same ease as their non visually impaired counterparts. This means we need to consider whether sufficient […]
Croydon DigitalEvolution of our programme Stockport Council’s Digital by Design programme started in 2015. Phase 1, our ‘skateboard’ if we use the Agile metaphor, included putting in place new technical foundations, and building digital skills and practice into our daily working lives, as well as setting up a digital inclusion alliance that aims for Stockport residents […]
Digital StockportOur work is challenging, high profile, and rewarding. Delivering it is a team effort, and we rely on talented people with a wide range of skills and experience. Whether you’re interested in customer service or accounting, software engineering or policy-making, it’s likely we’ll have vacancies for you. To carry out our work effectively and fairly, […]
Croydon DigitalWe’re excited to say that 250 people have decided to be like Digital Norma and help people get online by becoming an Embedded Digital Champion. It’s so good to see our army of volunteers growing, and we’re so proud to have hit this milestone. Have you met Norma yet? She’s a Dorset resident who works […]
Digital Dorset“Don’t hate the player,” I tell people “hate the game.” I tend to do this during training when I’m running through the Twitter algorithm. You see, Twitter has been run by an algorithm for several years and it’s an algorithm that wants you to stick around as long as possible. So, as a result it […]
Dan SleeThis is useful, a list of online audiences for news organisations. Press Gazette published this list for March 2022 online here. Why its useful is that it looks at national titles and local titles equally. They’re not newspapers anymore, either. They are news brands That embraces the fact that they’re often in print (declining) but […]
Dan SleeWorking with users from the get go Helen, Caroline and Hannah show us how they are collaborating in designing our intranet with accessibility at the forefront.
Service TransformationElizabeth Tweedale is the founder of Cypher Coders, educating the younger generation on coding. She is also the co-founder of GoSpace, an AI that delivers dynamic resource allocation for corporate real estate. The post Nexus Talks with Elizabeth Tweedale appeared first on Croydon Digital.
Croydon DigitalTikTok is no longer a fringe platform. It’s becoming mainstream. Amongst the vanguard of the public sector are South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue who now have 100,000 followers. In this post he shares some of the secrets of their success. by Jack Grasby Eight months ago me and my colleague Zander decided to take a […]
Dan SleeJames Green shares with us the the importance of content audits and how with ‘keep, cut, improve’, you can really shape a meaningful user content
Service TransformationIt’s coming to the end of my first month working as a Content Designer in the Welsh Local Government Digital team, and after a few weeks full of introductions, training, reading and generally getting up to speed, I wanted to take stock of what I’ve learned, and look ahead to the future. First though, a […]
Blog - Welsh Local Government DigitalHow do we channel the creativity we had when we were young into the workplace today? Our tenth Digital Network, the first for 2022 and our first ever hybrid session; invites you to explore that question and more. Helping us will be Dorset entrepreneur Steve Schofield who is leading the innovation team at a rapidly […]
Digital DorsetOffensive Cyber activity has increased dramatically over the past weeks, with multiple Russian Government and state backed hacking groups taking down Ukrainian banking and Government websites and services. As international sanctions against Russia start to bite, it is expected that the scope and scale of these attacks will escalate dramatically. The Department for Digital Culture […]
Digital StockportIt’s been a very introspective month one way or another. There is much challenge and much change around, both of the day to day and short term kind and the longer changing season of life kind. It’s kept my mind incredibly busy and I’ve been really grateful for the clock change meaning more daylight in […]
Sarah LayWe are excited to announce an opportunity to join us! Over the past two years, we’ve demonstrated our flexibility and ability to achieve great things in times of enormous challenge. Now there’s a chance to join us as we extend our transformation capability even further. Interested? Our ambition is to put Dorset Council at the […]
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