Choosing the right alt text for your images You're adding alt text / attributes to your social media posts and your website images - that's great! But are you adding the right alt text? 17 November 2023
Blogging for the organisation Who should blog for the council? What platform should they use? 26 October 2023
News articles and blog posts News? Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely everything, when done right. 15 October 2023
So you want to build a new council website, but why? What's wrong with your current one? Why have you decided to build a new website anyway? 28 September 2023
Make a plan for the system going down The network has failed, nobody can access the CRM system, what are the staff to do other than twiddle their thumbs? 30 August 2023
To Microsite or Not To Microsite, or, What’s the council website actually for? It's a sacred cow of Local Government Digital services that we have one website to rule them all. Is it time to sacrifice that sacred cow? 15 August 2023
Information Governance and the PSNI data breach If somebody could get the sack for making a mistake, then it should not be possible for them to make the mistake on their own 9 August 2023
How about a LocalGovDigital consultancy? Why do we pay expensive consultants to tell us the same things clever people from within our own sector can tell us? 7 August 2023
Should the council have a citizen app? Tl;dr - I refer the reader to Betteridge's law of headlines. But if you have a few moments spare in your busy day, the answer in most cases is the same, however there's a more nuanced argument to the question than just a single word. 28 June 2023
Service menu ordering on council websites Why do so many council websites have their service menus presented in such a random order? 21 June 2023
