Since the release of the report, The power of information (which I’m planning to blog about next week), the UK government has taken enormous steps towards using the internet in more empowering and collaborative ways to improve service offerings, communication and transparency. I’ve blogged previously about the principles for online participation developed for UK civil…
Donna Spencer has written a very thoughtful piece on how many items were ‘too many’ to have in a navigation bar on a website. Entitled, How many items in a navigation bar it’s well worth a read. She argues that the 7+/- ‘rule’ is more of a myth and offers some suggestions on how to…
I’ve had a keen interest in the Attorney General’s Department for a number of years now. That’s not because they may – or may not – be the government department most likely to have James Bond, Triple X or the Men In Black working for them. It’s because they do a lot of important things…
My team, in association with our web of content editors, recently completed a major review of the content within our intranet. This has dramatically improved the currency of information throughout the site, with over 90% of the content having been reviewed and updated within the last year, up from slightly over 60% before I took…
I found this an interesting article on a systemic way to manage taxonomy creep. Managing taxonomies
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