We migrated our website to a new platform (Placecube) and asked ourselves the question: how can we make sure our website is just as good (if not better) on the new platform? The most obvious way was for us to do some user testing on our old site to find out: · how people search… Read more So you want to do remote user testing
Our volunteer Digital Champions are back in libraries and community centres across Dorset, giving face-to-face support to people who need tech advice. The sessions have to be booked in advance and are carried out in a Covid-secure environment. Meanwhile our Digital Hotline – 01305 221048 – is still very much operational for people who cannot… Read more Face to face or on the hotline – our Digital Champions are ready to help
We’re organising ten events in five locations across five days, involving almost 50 speakers and 100 participants and streaming them live over You Tube to an audience of hundreds, if not thousands, of people online. Why are we doing this? It’s complex, scary and – most bizarre of all – no-one has asked us to… Read more We’re not TV producers but… by Penny Syddall (Programme Manager for Skills and Adoption)
After 18 months like no other, Dorset Council’s volunteer Digital Champions were at long last able to get together in person to share their experiences of the past year and a half. For the first time since all Digital Champion services were moved from libraries to the Digital Hotline in March 2020, our brilliant volunteers… Read more Championing the achievements of our digital champs
Do you know someone who would love to have some training in basic digital skills? Then this new Essential Digital Skills Qualification from Skills and Learning might be just what they are looking for! And it is free for anyone who needs it. This training is an opportunity to improve digital skills in a supportive… Read more Free training in essential digital skills
It’s been a jam-packed few months for Digital Dorset since the beginning of April when we last told you what we’d been doing. ‘Digital Dorset’ reflects what we do in the county to help make people’s lives easier through the use of technology and information or data. It’s about delivering great services that are designed… Read more Digital Dorset update – April to June 2021
Here at Digital Dorset we are always working hard to show why moving to a digital way of living and working can actually make things easier, and sometimes cheaper, for our residents. In this blog, Lisa Trickey, service manager for digital strategy and design, talks about the services people can access online and how we… Read more How digital is making life easier for Dorset residents
It had been years since Martin Pipe was last in a job centre and when he stepped through those doors again, little did he know that his life was about to change forever. Martin’s life was just starting to turn a corner after years of living with addiction. One of his first steps to recovery… Read more How Martin was Bourne again thanks to digital
Data, data, data. Everyone is always talking about how we collect, consume and display data. But what does any of that actually mean? Data is everywhere. Social media influencers, football teams, farmers all use data in a variety of different ways and the list doesn’t stop there. Join us on Wednesday 21 July at our… Read more Data, Data everywhere… Join us for our 9th network event
Nestled in the far western corner of Dorset is the stunning Marshwood Vale – made up of rolling hills and villages and hamlets scattered among the valleys. To the outside world it looks like the place where time had stood still. But beneath the idyllic rural scenes are residents and businesses very much of the… Read more Connecting the Vale – when state subsidy brought fast broadband to Dorset’s most rural corner
