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simon gray — 2016-03-18, 14:46:59
An SDS hammer drill is definitely the tool of choice for drilling into a wall. Srsly, every home should have one.
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"There will come a time soon when for some councils there won't be a council website any more - the website will be the council" - Tom Steinberg, founder, MySociety
Purposes of the strategy
- To document the roles of the council's website estate and how we might best achieve those purposes
- To agree key stakeholders
- To state ownership and governance of the web estate
- To plant a stake in the ground outlining our aspirations for the future
Purposes of the council website estate
- To deliver channel shift savings by enabling citizens and others to interact with the council digitally instead of by telephone or in person
- To promote the services the council offers (or commissions) to citizens and visitors
- To promote civic engagement shifting people from being passive residents into active citizens, taking an interest in the council, its policies, and its workings to enable them to better inform us in our decision making and be better informed themselves at election time
- To communicate key messages to target audiences
- To promote the city / borough as a location for business and tourism
Stakeholders and audience
The stakeholders of the council web estate are:
- Ordinary citizens of of the area,
- Business operators in the area,
- Potential and current investors in area,
- Potential and current students in the area,
- Potential residents of the area,
- Visitors and potential visitors to the area,
- Service area staff of the council,
- Suppliers to the council,
- The council Digital Services team(s),
- Corporate Communications,
- Council Directors, Assistant Directors, and Heads of Service,
- Councillors.
These stakeholders each have a variety of different transactional, informational, and marketing needs from the site, some of which may on the [...]
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In group Public / Third Sector DigitalSeen on Twitter last night - a company selling insurance against one's Wordpress installation being hacked. If the Wordpress security landscape has got so bad that people need insurance to pay for recovery after a potential hack, I'd say it's time to stop using Wordpress. #internet #webdev
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That moment when you’re making the separate dinner for the deBaby because yours can’t be babified & think ‘i wouldn’t mind that for myself’.
(cabbage, red pepper. onion, cumin seed, and caraway seed, since you were wondering)
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I’ve come home to a news story that apparently the Russians spied on Mao Tse-Tung’s poo. It’s a glorious life, the life of a spy.
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END OF THE IPHONE AND IMMINENT COLLAPSE OF APPLE KLAXON!!11!!
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I give them another four months before people have forgotten they ever existed.
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I do wish the toilet paper dispensers on trains - all trains - weren't so crap.
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In John Lewis, with a friend who was looking for a salad spinner. Neither of the two assistants working in the kitchen department knew what a salad spinner is.
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Here's a thing which occurs to me - do celebrity television astronomers (such as eg Maggie Aderin-Pocock) get a bit narked seeing celebrity television particle physicists such as Brian Cox fronting space programmes?
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When you get to the end of your coffee and realise you forgot to put the milk in it.
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With so much recent dross for the #radio4 #630comedy, John Finnemore continues to be a genuine comedy genius.
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Person who stops walking near the top of the train escalator - you're the worst kind of left-side escalator stander.
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See also: 'the unit cost of a CD is 70p, so why should I have to pay £10 for one' - TripAdvisor review.
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'Subtle' is the word I'd use to describe the flavour. Not bland, subtle.
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Today's the day the #localgov Twitter world will orgasm over grit.
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Woman in front of me in works canteen queue, giving every impression it was the first time she'd paid for something by card. #yolo
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Who will take over the ownership of the family knifemaking firm now he's died?
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If I'm not mistaken, that looks like frost out there. Best wear my english country goth chick chic coat.
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Composer Pierre Boulez has sadly died; his daughter Patti is said to be distraught. Inheritance of the royalties for the Planet of the Apes novel series is yet to be decided.
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