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Adventures in government, politics and open source. Mostly WordPress-related.

Simon Dickson, principal consultant at Puffbox, has been blogging about e-government, online politics, and WordPress since 2005. Some important people read it.

Archive for 'notwordpress'

BIS website grows up

13 March 2010 1 ,

newbisThere'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 »

Our modest microsite for UKTI

26 February 2010 2 ,

goukMonday saw a gathering of 250 leading figures from the world of business at London's Saatchi Gallery; and organisers UK Trade & Investment asked Puffbox to put together a microsite for the event. With minimal advance publicity, few official post-conference outputs, and no particular involvement for the general public, we felt the best approach was [...] read on »

Real Help Now: a national picture

For the last couple of weeks, I've been working with the Downing Street team to put together Real Help Now -  a fairly modest website, for now anyway, to introduce and demonstrate the practical help available to families and businesses during the recession. Fundamentally, in this initial build, it's a news aggregation site - pulling [...] read on »

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