Have a look at a random list of interesting links the Digital Team have collected over the last few months.
Electronic voting is coming but it’s late to the party
Now that Generation Z are reaching voting age, pressure for this will surely grow.
Learning digital skills
Over a million adults have gained Basic Digital Skills within the last year.
Facebook Spaces
In Facebook’s future, you and your friends will “virtually” hang out.
Doing the hard digital work to make fishing simple
Fishing matters to lots of people and digital rod licences are now available to buy on gov.uk.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee to receive a prestigious computing award
Referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing” the A.M. Turing Award honours Sir Tim for his invention of the world wide web, and his decision and continued work to make it open and free for anyone to use.
Naming your service is important
Service names are important. They are how users find your service online and understand what it does. We like this approach from the Government Digital Service.
The new Bankes Archive website
The interactive map of historical Dorset is fascinating.
Tech City – Bournemouth & Poole
View the statistics on Dorset’s tech cluster in Bournemouth and Poole.
Baby names since 1904 – How has yours performed?
In honour of the fact that one of the team had a baby recently we like this visual data from the Office for National Statistics.
Is this really how your people should be using their time?
Thank you for your comment. Yes, I think it is important that our team members take some time each week to stay up-to-date with current news and ideas in our ‘industry’. We read blog posts and e-newsletters from organisations in the various fields we specialise in: digital, social media, government technology, open data, content strategy, digital copy writing, design, user research etc. and we share the most interesting and useful ones with the rest of the team. This is just the same as passing industry journals or photocopied newspaper articles with industry news around the office, or pinning them onto a staff noticeboard. This helps us all learn and keep up with the rapid change and innovation in digital, both in Dorset and further afield.
These are just a few of the articles our team has shared with each other since January when we had the idea to try sharing a few on this blog. Compiling this list has taken me a matter of seconds each week to copy and paste a link from an email into a Word document. If people are interested in seeing more posts like this, we might do another one later in the year, but if not we won’t.