Comments on: Real Help Now: a national picture

By: Update on realhelpnow.gov.uk « Guy’s super-duper site

Update on realhelpnow.gov.uk « Guy’s super-duper site — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:38:37 +0000

[...] googleskillz, is some funky cool company called Puffbox, who admit their involvement for all to see here. The information they give about the project is revealing: It was set up by creating an account at [...]

By: Easy in, Interesting out : ASH-10 : Social Media Advice and Training in Birmingham UK by Pete Ashton

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:02:52 +0000

[...] I heard about this when at the time but hadn’t clicked as to how interesting it was. As Simon Dickson explains the back-end is an incredibly simple system for publishing links to useful information: The news [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:18:37 +0000

Actually, if you're reading this far, can I urge you to have a look at Steph's piece... and share your ideas. Getting the site up at all was the hardest bit (as anyone involved in HMG will know!); but now it's there, what can it do for you?

By: Where next for Real Help Now? at Helpful Technology

Where next for Real Help Now? at Helpful Technology — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:58:11 +0000

[...] Simon Dickson and Dave Briggs have written up, today has seen the launch of a new site aimed at bringing together [...]

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:02:45 +0000

Lookin' good there, top work Simon! Like the underlying technology too!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:50:17 +0000

Nothing, and I mean nothing, would give me greater professional pleasure. But I haven't yet been able to persuade clients to bite that particular bullet.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:44:45 +0000

Regarding IE6, how about a conditional stick to encourage people to upgrade?

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/02/to_hell_with_ba.html

By: Paulg

Paulg — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:06:23 +0000

Where you have:
"Click to find out whats going on where you live ... "

You should take a look at geoIP.

Could save a lot of pixel space for more relevant targetted news when the users' IP is located.

By: Real Help Now | DavePress

Real Help Now | DavePress — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:57:20 +0000

[...] Simon Dickson reports on the new site from the UK Government which currently aggregates news from around the country on what help is available to help businesses and individuals through the current economic difficulties. Fundamentally, in this initial build, it’s a news aggregation site - pulling together material not just from national sources, but regional and local too. The aim is to complement the citizen- and business-facing stuff, at Directgov and BusinessLink respectively, by showing what’s actually happening on the ground, well away from Whitehall and the City. [...]