Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
January 26th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan.
This is the third and final part in a recap of everything that happened in the last half of 2010. Part 1 covered the July, August and September including the launch of a redesigned CF Labs website. The second part covered the launch of the new website for Consumer Focus and the second phase of [...]
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January 19th, 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan.
This is the second part in a recap of everything that happened in the last half of 2010. Part 1 covered July, August & September. This part looks at October and November. October 2010 In October we completed the second phase of the new Consumer Focus website. Earlier in the year we made the move [...]
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November 14th, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan.
Disclaimer (just in-case you haven’t noticed the statement in the sidebar of this blog): These are my own personal thoughts and not those of my employer. I’m disappointed. Over the past few months a concerted media campaign against public sector workers has been building. We are continually portrayed as being lazy and overpaid, not only [...]
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May 24th, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan.
We are nearly two weeks into the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat and there seems to be a lot of work going on behind the scenes to prepare for the start of the new legislative programme tomorrow (Tuesday). Of course, with a new government brings a new direction. Steph Gray, a former civil servant working in the [...]
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December 20th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan.
Photo: lewishamdreamer (from Flickr) The past 36 hours haven’t been the best for those travelling with Eurostar. Five trains were stranded for hours in the Channel Tunnel without power, light, food, drink, heating or information. A further train became stuck near Ebbsfleet yesterday evening. The focus today is on the cause of the incident and [...]
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July 28th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan.
Last week, Neil Williams from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published his draft Government Twitter Strategy. I think its about time someone sat down and produced a document like this. Some people have responded to the document negatively (as expected), some positively, and some have completely missed the point. I wanted to [...]
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February 15th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan.
A quick update this week! Last weekend I was pleased to launch CllrTweeps. The new site, inspired by TweetMinster, aims to list every local councillor in the UK who is on Twitter. After our first week online, we have already tracked down and verified the first 100 councillors using the service. The first version of [...]
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January 24th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan.
This week it feels like a new phase in social media and the internet has begun. The beginning of the week saw America inaugurate a technology-savvy president, who, along with his team, appears to understand the importance of technology and the internet. Throughout last year, Barack Obama and his team made fantastic use of social [...]
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November 28th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan.
The web design & development industry is incredibly fast paced. What is current and acceptable today, might not be tomorrow. New technologies are being developed all the time, new ways of doing things, new ways of thinking. As I’ve mentioned before, keeping on top of these changes is almost a full time job in itself. [...]
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July 23rd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan.
On Monday, the social networking site Facebook released its new design to a selection of its members. Over the next few weeks, this major update will be pushed out to everyone registered on the network. Yesterday evening, a discussion began on Twitter surrounding the new Facebook image – with a number of users who don’t [...]
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