You can view the progress of development of GOV.UK’s 25 digital exemplar services, of which 4 are the MoJ projects shown above, from the Digital Transformation dashboard. The Government Digital Strategy and Departmental Digital Strategies commit us to the redesigning and rebuilding of 25 significant ‘exemplar’ services. We’re going to make them simpler, clearer and […]
Whatever you may feel about some of the cost-saving justice changes afoot, there’s no doubt that the government’s “digital by default” strategy will both help achieve some of the savings they crave and deliver better services. The Justice Secretary in the foreword to the MoJ Digital Strategy believes: It will transform the services we provide, […]
Interested in access to justice? You bet. I’m not talking here about the withdrawal of legal aid though I urge you to follow #savukjustice and sign the petition if you have not already done so. What I’m referring to is the migration of content from the Justice website to GOV.UK. We’d just got used to […]
I’m a big fan of RSS and wish it was better understood, after all it’s really simple. But it’s an open standard (like HTML and other geeky stuff), not a sexy platform (like Twitter et al). Like me Dieter Bohn loves RSS. His piece in The Verge on Why RSS still matters is well worth […]
Proposals for incentives as part of a new system of independent, self-regulation of the press have been refined to make sure “micro-business” blogs are outside of the scheme. [DCMS news story] I’m checking out the pretty chart and wondering why this malarky has been made so complicated. Why single out bloggers anyway as you then […]
So the the GOV.UK site from the Government Digital Service won the Designs of the Year 2013 award. This is proving to be somewhat divisive: FOR are those designers who appreciate its “agile, user-centred design” AGAINST are those who like a pretty website, and UNDECIDED are those like me who would like to be FOR […]
[^ What’s this? ^] Bad news recently … or is it? Google is retiring Google Reader, used by millions of news junkies, including self, but sidelined at Googleplex in recent years in favour of development of Google+. This follows the general trend of users away from feed reading to Twitter and other streaming update services. […]
Consider the WP scene in the mid-80s when I first produced Precedents on Disk for what was then Longman Law Tax & Finance (since purchased by Sweet & Maxwell). We catered for the most common word processor formats of the day, including dedicated word processors like IBM Displaywriter, Decmate, Wang and Wordplex; DOS (PC) word […]
Hi there, [well, hello!] I hope you are well and are having a good week. [you care?] I’m contacting you from xxx, a content agency based in xxx. [content? uh oh!] We came across your site and we really like it [well, thanks!] and in fact we work with a number of clients that would […]
Have you visited GOV.UK yet? If you’ve recently used any government service you will probably have been directed to GOV.UK. On 17 October 2012 it replaced Directgov and Business Link as the place to go for government services. And on 15 November the first government departmental and agency websites started their migration to the Inside […]
On 20 November Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, delivered the First Annual BAILII Lecture, entitled No Judgment – No Justice (PDF) in which he dealt with three important aspects of improving access to justice through improved access to judgments: their clarity, free dissemination and enhancement. His intro para is worth quoting here in […]
It’s likely you’ve heard a lot of talk recently about “content marketing”. What’s that? You might turn to Wikipedia for an explanation: Content marketing is an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation and sharing of content in order to attract, acquire and engage clearly defined and understood current and potential consumer […]
A recent story/scandal I keep being drawn back to is that of Grant Shapps, Tory party co-chairman, former housing minister and former (result!) web enrepreneur and marketing guru, aka Michael Green, now, vicariously, aka Sebastian Fox. I’m quite happy to acknowledge that making millions from his [wife’s] web businesses qualifies him/her as a successful entrepreneur. […]
Nearly Legal has a beef about sub-standard “free legal content”. I’m with him. In Part 1 he looks at two services who peddle useless “legal” information for their own gain for SEO purposes. His exemplars are firstly Forward3D, an SEO agent for Irwin Mitchell, who wonder if he might “be interested in sharing some unique […]
