{"id":305,"date":"2017-04-24T14:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/digital-first\/?p=305"},"modified":"2017-04-24T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:56:44","slug":"links-we-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/2017\/04\/24\/links-we-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Links we like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at a random list of interesting links the Digital Team have collected over the last few months.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Electronic voting is coming but it\u2019s late to the party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that Generation Z are reaching voting age, pressure for this will surely <a href=\"http:\/\/digileaders.com\/electronic-voting-coming-late-party\/\">grow.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning digital skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over a million adults have <a href=\"https:\/\/doteveryone.org.uk\/blog\/2017\/03\/over-a-million-adults-have-gained-basic-digital-sk\/\">gained Basic Digital Skills<\/a> within the last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook Spaces<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Facebook\u2019s future, you and your friends will <a href=\"https:\/\/socialmediaweek.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/facebook-spaces-future-social-vr\/\">\u201cvirtually\u201d hang out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doing the hard digital work to make fishing simple<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fishing matters to lots of people and digital rod licences are <a href=\"https:\/\/defradigital.blog.gov.uk\/2017\/03\/03\/doing-the-hard-digital-work-to-make-fishing-simple\/\">now available <\/a>to buy on gov.uk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Tim Berners-Lee to receive a prestigious computing award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Referred to as\u00a0\u201cthe Nobel Prize of computing\u201d the A.M. Turing Award <a href=\"http:\/\/webfoundation.org\/2017\/04\/sir-tim-berners-lee-to-receive-prestigious-computing-award\/\">honours Sir Tim<\/a> for his invention of the world wide web, and his decision and continued work to make it open and free for anyone to use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Naming your service is important<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Service names are important. They are how users find your service online and understand what it does.\u00a0We like <a href=\"https:\/\/designnotes.blog.gov.uk\/2017\/03\/27\/naming-your-service-a-new-approach-to-patterns\/\">this approach<\/a> from the Government Digital\u00a0Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The new Bankes Archive website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dcc.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/bankes-archive\/mapping-the-bankes\/\">interactive map<\/a> of historical Dorset is fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tech City \u2013 Bournemouth &amp; Poole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"http:\/\/technation.techcityuk.com\/cluster\/bournemouth-and-poole\/\">statistics<\/a> on Dorset\u2019s tech cluster in Bournemouth and Poole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baby names since 1904 \u2013 How has yours performed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In honour of the fact that one of the team had a baby recently we like this <a href=\"http:\/\/visual.ons.gov.uk\/baby-names-since-1904-how-has-yours-performed\/\">visual data<\/a> from the Office for National Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at a random list of interesting links the Digital Team have collected over the last few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/files\/2016\/02\/man-on-tablet-browsing-dors.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/digital-first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}