Archive for 'bis'
BIS website grows up
There's a new website for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - aka BIS - this weekend; and as I reported here back in November (sniff!), they're waving farewell to WordPress as their core publishing platform. The new site is built on Sitecore, and is appearing bang on the published schedule. Visually it's really [...] read on »
Networked blogs: our latest science experiment
Over the last couple of months I've been working with Steph Gray and his BIS colleagues to build a modest little family of websites which could have far-reaching consequences. As Steph notes on his own blog, I've long been musing openly about seeing corporate websites as clusters of smaller websites: making a virtue of the [...] read on »
Time marches on
It's been formally announced that BIS (the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) is to move its corporate website over to Sitecore by March next year. Of course, it'll be a shame to see them moving away from WordPress for the 'shop window': but I can say with some certainty that there will still be [...] read on »
New site for National Student Forum
Today sees the launch of the latest little site we've built on behalf of - or more accurately, in collaboration with - BIS, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. It's a pretty straightforward WordPress build for something called the National Student Forum: a panel representing HE students' interests, whose latest annual report was published [...] read on »
Credit where it's due
The BIS All-Stars have produced something relatively small-scale in support of their new consultation on credit and store cards: but it works remarkably well. Working with plain English consultancy Simply Understand, they've boiled the classic 80-odd-page goverment consultation document down to just 10 (and done a nice design job on it too). But then they've [...] read on »
New sites at Defra and BIS
Two major departmental website changes (that I'm aware of?) today - a completely transformed website for Defra, and a new look for BIS's corporate site. The Defra site feels like an incremental improvement of what went before. Gone is the blocky layout and earthy (and somewhat apt?) colour palette, replaced by the de facto standard [...] read on »
Twitter strategies: the boring bit
Anyone who finds Neil Williams's 20-page Twitter strategy especially newsworthy clearly hasn't spent much time inside Whitehall. Then again, with Parliament having just closed for its summer holiday, I guess the Westminster hacks had to find something to keep themselves busy. So anyway, a week ago, Neil published a template for a departmental Twitter strategy [...] read on »
Puffbox's social intranet for government
Last week, we finally completed the longest-running and most ambitious WordPress-based project in Puffbox history. Back in February, with snow on the ground, we started developing the concept of a self-contained 'social intranet' platform to be used by staff across government - DFID, BERR (as was), FCO and elsewhere - involved in the many facets [...] read on »
Innovative & skilful: it's The Business
On reflection, if you're going to put two of the most forward-thinking people in e-government into the same department, great things are probably to be expected. BERR (as was)'s Neil and DIUS (as was)'s Steph put their heads together on Monday afternoon, and on Wednesday, they launched a new corporate website for the newly-created Department [...] read on »