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The moment BCCDIY started
Here’s Councillor Paul Tilsley justifying the Birmingham.gov.uk website – “We did spend a bit of money on it”. Shame you can’t see the audience, but you can hear their sharp intake of breath.
Posted in Blog Also tagged birmingham city council, birmingham city council website, birminghamgov, birminghamuk Leave a comment
Guardian: Digital technology for public services and communities could make bottom up more effective than top down
I just left this comment on an article on the Guardian site that seems to be very relevant to BCCDIY.
(I tweeted Charles and he asked me to mention BCCDIY in the comments – here goes…)
Following @pezholio, the DIY Birmingham City Council site (BCCDIY.com) came out a sense of frustration that quickly turned into a [...]
BCC DIY Hack Day collected memory
As the culmination of the first week of our community-powered effort to build our own website for Birmingham City Council, the BCC DIY Hack Day was a real show of how much an informal group of people can now achieve in a short space of time.
This is a collection of some of the stuff that’s [...]
Posted in Blog, upyerbrum Also tagged bcc diy, birmingham city council website, birminghamuk, hack day, open data 2 Comments
Why build a new site for Birmingham City Council?
Here’s my reasoning and some background on how/why I’ve been collaboratively putting together BCCDIY.com
Birmingham City Council launched their new website recently, and many people commented that it wasn’t up to scratch in terms of value for money, especially given the £2.8m price tag and the rather long time it took to produce.
I was originally quite [...]
Does BCCDIY risk devaluing digital marketing?