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Tag Archives: wordpress
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. BDU: Big Data – E-learning about "big data" which people keep telling me is going to be important. WP2Cloud – Interesting one for WordPress dorks (like me). Stores all your … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, aws, bigdata, carlhaggerty, civilservice, cloud, devon, digitalengagement, elearning, evaluation, govcamp, govweb, Health, innovation, opendata, opengov, opengovernment, plugin, socialmedia, spigit, survey, web, wordpress
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What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Are open standards a closed barrier? | Government Digital Service – "Fresh out of a roundtable discussion on the Open Standards: Open Opportunities consultation, Linda Humphries discusses whether open can really … Continue reading
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Tagged canada, cloud, cms, democracy, design, drupal, gcloud, gds, government, govuk, guidelines, ict, opengov, opengovernment, opensource, openstandards, participation, plone, principles, squiz, technology, web, wordpress
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Some useful BuddyPress plugins
BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress that turns your site into a simple social network. It’s a remarkable thing, but I think it is fair to say that while it makes creating a social network easy, creating a good social … Continue reading
WordPress for local government
WordPress, the open source content management system that I use here on this blog, is growing in its utilisation across government. It took root a bit quicker in central government, with the Number 10 site, Defra, Wales Office and the … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing Big Society in South Holland
I’ve written a couple of times about the WordPress based ideas crowdsourcing tool we’ve been working on at Kind of Digital, which is called CiviCrowd. We’re delighted that it’s now being used out in the open by South Holland District … Continue reading
