Archive for 'downingstreet'
Telegraph calls No10 site 'a technical mess'
Last night, the Telegraph published a piece by their head of audience development, Julian Sambles accusing the Downing Street website of being 'a technical mess'. This damning conclusion was based on the following criticisms: It wasn't in the top search results for a few randomly-selected Budget-related search terms. It doesn't have a 'link canonical' tag [...] read on »
WordPress T-shirt in Downing St
I've been meaning to sort this out for some time... read on »
New Number10 site goes live
Today sees the long-awaited launch of the new Number10 website, based on WordPress and built by New Media Maze with occasional interventions by yours truly. The reaction so far has been positive, although as the team have admitted to Twitter contacts, there are numerous rough edges still to be smoothed out. (Some more serious than [...] read on »
Sneak preview of new Number10 site
Fresh from stealing the online show at the recent G8 summit, the 10 Downing Street digital comms team have given the Prime Minister's new website its first public outing, with a few sneaky screengrabs popping up on their Flickr account. It's quite a significant departure from the existing site, although if you've been following the [...] read on »
Another Downing St travel-blog
Gordon Brown's off to Japan for at the weekend, to hang out with the other G8 heads of government. So it's time to crank out another Puffbox production for 10 Downing Street: the now-familiar mash-up of a travel-blog, Twitter stream and Flickr photo set. As with previous trips to the US and Brussels, it's based [...] read on »
On tour with the PM
I hinted that there might be more online initiatives coming out of 10 Downing Street; and true enough, next out the world-famous door is a bit of on-the-spot blogging from Gordon Brown's trip to the United States later this week. For the first time on a foreign visit, a member of the No10 web team [...] read on »
No10's new microsite by Puffbox
Fresh from its success with Twitter, 10 Downing Street is preparing for a weekend of social media experimentation, in association with Puffbox. This Saturday, Gordon Brown is hosting a gathering of around 20 left-leaning world leaders under the banner of Progressive Governance, to discuss globalisation, climate change, development and international institutional reform. (It got a [...] read on »