Tag Archives: Consultation

Gov Camp 2012 – 15 take home pointers

GovCamp 2012 was awesome. With two days of packed and uber interesting un-conference style talks, coupled with an opportunity to talk to and debate with a whole host of varied people, the event was truly worth working on a Saturday … Continue reading

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Five useful links for the new look NHS

I speak to a lot of health care professionals about stakeholder engagement. The overwhelming problem faced by many in the NHS is the new engagement strategies needed by the GP Consortiums. I’ve gathered some helpful links to assist those re-thinking … Continue reading

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Thames Tunnel videos syndicated from our site

As I touched upon in my previous launch post we made the decision to host all of Thames Tunnel’s consultation materials on resources that allowed users to easily share, embed and generally syndicate them.  One of these systems is the … Continue reading

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9 useful links for consultation, engagement + comms people working in UK local gov, police or NHS

We Love Local Government I ran across the We Love Local Government blog this week. It’s mixes practical tips for getting stuff done with fun insight into what it’s like to work in local government right now. Couple of links: … Continue reading

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Using RDFa to create a Google Calendar

Part of what we like to do in Delib is demonstrate how easy it can be explore to Linked Data and get more engagement from a public consultation process. I’ve just spent an hour or so playing around with the … Continue reading

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Opening up the Citizen Space consultation Aggregator

Earlier this year we launched our consultation Aggregator, and put a demonstration site online.  This combines all our clients’ consultations running on Delib’s Citizen Space software into a single, searchable hub.  We were very pleased with this demo, and its … Continue reading

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Stakeholder database for a fiver: a step-by-step walkthrough

Earlier this month, Chris blogged about adding a Stakeholder Database to your consultation for $5, by making use of Campaign Monitor‘s opt-in email service. I have to confess I was dubious.  As a developer, my initial reaction to this kind … Continue reading

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What is RDF? What is the Semantic Web? Should I be using them?

There’s a lot of talk on the internet these days about the Semantic Web, Linked Data, RDF and even RDFa. In particular, the term Semantic Web has been bandied about left right and centre for years now. At Delib we’ve … Continue reading

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What is consultations.gov.uk?

I was Googling ‘Online Consultation’ today, and came across consultations.gov.uk referenced in a Wikipedia article.  It’s down. Anyone know what it is, or what it was?  Seems like a waste of a good domain name to me.

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Showers, humanity, and consultation. How do I link those? Read on to find out…

It’s a cliche that many good ideas come in the shower. We were talking about this recently: Alan (one of our developers) has a faulty shower that cuts out after ten minutes. This is about half the time he needs … Continue reading

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