This talk from Chris Chant, who is leading the Governments G-Cloud initiative, has been around a few weeks now (and has even spawned its own #unacceptable hashtag) but it remains a powerful indictment of the state of IT in the public sector and from a personal point of view it could almost be talking about … Continue reading G-Cloud and the end of the #unacceptable
Category: information management
Getting to Grips with Google Analytics
I've been using Google Analytics on various websites I've worked on since..well since before it was Google Analytics (GA). I actually was a paying customer of Urchin before GOOG swallowed them up back in 2005. Before then I'd mainly been using WebTrends and I think AWStats (though that might have come later?) and while I … Continue reading Getting to Grips with Google Analytics
Seeking Open Content Management Systems
So after a couple of years of strictly being a CMS user it looks likely that 2011 will be the year I get properly sucked back into the web content management system(s) black hole. There is every chance I'll be leading a project to implement a new CMS and subsequently take the opportunity to refresh … Continue reading Seeking Open Content Management Systems
Investigating Intranets?
So what do I need to know about intranet technology these days then? [I have a whole different post about IA, content etc!] Before I was ever a Web Manager I had a job where my title was Intranet Operations Manager - though as this was the late 90s this didn't really amount to much … Continue reading Investigating Intranets?
Statto..
Stuart over at OSS Watch recently wrote a post about how OSS Watch measure 'buzz' around there activities. This sent me off on a little bit of a tangent as I started to give a little thought to the tools we use at JISC to monitor the impact of our website (and when I say … Continue reading Statto..
