User needs up front

Working with uSync

Deploying Umbraco with Team City & Octopus Deploy

Deploying Umbraco to Azure with Visual Studio Online

Local Deployment with uSync

Umbraco : Multiple Developers, Multiple Databases, One site.

The user must need this: They click on it

Oh Joy! A popup that wants my email address

Speedy Site Review: Midlothian

Speedy Site Review: Hastings Borough

Speedy Site Review: Maldon District

Speedy Site Review: Elmbridge Borough

Speedy Site Review: Blaenau Gwent

Crawling LocalGov

PageSpeedySpider

Honesty in service delivery

Voodoo channel shift

The technology probably doesn’t matter

Trends in LocalGov Website design

Local Elections 2016 - Find my polling station

Local Elections 2016 - Signposting users

Don’t crowdsource everything (especially names).

Art is knowing when to stop

PageSpeed insight scores and page load times

Not digitally driven - driven by users

Alarm Bells

LocalGovStarter Kit - Usage

Is fragmentation ruining localgov websites?

Top tasks with Taskily

Signposting users to where they want to be

Strategy is strategy

Splitting the site - still?

You can prove anything with statistics heat maps.

Don't go live on a Friday

Passive personalisation

Contact Happens

LocalGov StarterKit 5

Google Mobile Friendly

The speedy trendyness score

Does Speed Matter?

Search: the answer to homepage woes? probably not.

Don't be a Greggs - how to protect your logo

Principles and Playbooks

New #LocalGov sites July 2014

Taskily: the top task survey tool

New #Localgov Sites in June 14

Page Speedy - July

Localgov the 'Likely' tasks

Frequently used, most popular quick top words

Enabling time based content

Beta localgov sites June 2014

New #LocalGov Websites since April

We all blame PDFs but the real problem is Word

Content Ethos - building the Why of content

Pagespeedy May 2014

Talk about the Why - build an ethos and get people to buy in to what you are doing

Testing the whole journey

The April 2014 council speedy indexish

LocalGov Starter Kit Updates

Every Council website, pictured

Localgov starter kit: Demo site

The council speedy indexish

Localgov Starterkit for Umbraco 7

Prototyping as a specification

Thoughts on digital strategy

The dangers of 20 times tendering

Get the Content in first - the Role of Content Modeling in Agile development

Site Rationalisation: Create vs Delete

Stop aiming for the stars

Shortlisting Content Management Systems

uLocalGov Starter Kit

#umbLocalGov shropshire

Visitors don’t make websites, transactions do

Weekly Reading – 6th July 2013

Gartner and the Enterprise CMS Magic Quadrant

Using your a-z for good

Realistic development practices

Access via a mobile may not mean mobile users

Defining features

The value of a page of information

Understand you web team and let them out of the box

Project Management with Trello

Built to Measure

Agile - Decide fast, Fail faster

Our banned web words

liverpool.gov.uk 3rd party intergration - easy wins

liverpool.gov.uk: navigation - part 3

liverpool.gov.uk to umbraco (done)

the nearlyness of new

Tasks and Needs

The umbraco liverpool.gov.uk

be honest to each other

Tinkering with time

Agile Agile Project Management and the done box

Telling it like it is

#UmbLiverpool

Last day in the office

GDS – Service Manual in local government?

Jumoo - Digital service stuff

Signposting

Moving on, stepping out..

it's top tasks all the way down

uSync - a simple database to disk thing for umbraco

Site Landscapes, understanding multiple audiences and sites

It's tasks all the way down

Centralizing Content Management

CMS - know thy language

What questions do website users ask?

I’m not techie, the weasel words of the lazy?

Designing for browsers but not for devices ?

Sometimes you have to tell people that nothing has changed

Elections - 'We the council'

You're not the same as amazon.com, you might not even be the same as your competitor

Why picking a CMS isn't a check-list job

Navigation on liverpool.gov.uk: Part 2

Navigation on liverpool.gov.uk: Part 1

#CSA12 - Wresting a content monster

Kevin's Nerd Box.

Umbraco – Intranet Authentication

News to nowhere

Mobile: Responsive Design or Dedicated

Flexing the home page

Umbraco.localgov: intro

Umbraco.LocalGov

liverpool.gov.uk in umbraco

Splitting the site

Gerry McGovern on Content

building a local government site

The first line of your social media policy

Complex CMS? We could have built liverpool.gov.uk in wordpress

Forced purchase and victims

Staff are not customers

No news is good news

behind the phone (unseen presentations)

Centralizing what matters

Usage vs Screen space

It's a bit bare is't it?

Another fresh start?