Socitm Presentation: Project WIP We’re awesome (but we all make mistakes)
Yesterday we presented at Socitm’s Building Perfect Council Websites conference. We’d like to thank Socitm for inviting us along and all those who attended the morning workshop with myself. As...
View ArticleUmbraco in Local Government event 22nd August 2013
Following a string of visits, speeches at events & conversations, we’ve arranged a “learning event” on the afternoon of Thursday 22nd August. This is aimed at everyone in Local Government who is...
View ArticleFarewell Chris Jones
Our colleague Chris Jones, Digital Services & Innovations Manager, co-conspirator in Project WIP and a close friend to many of us – left Shropshire Council last week to study in China. Although we...
View ArticleWe are now an Umbraco Certified Partner!
After just over 18 months of using Umbraco, which included helping to deliver new.shropshire.gov.uk and migrating shropshire.gov.uk, Lewis and I were given the opportunity to undertake the Level 1 and...
View ArticleTime for a makeover
It’s been a long time coming but we are finally redesigning Project WIP. Within the team we’ve had some ideas about what the new site should look like and what we should be focusing on, as there have...
View ArticleFarewell Louise Tierney
Yet another farewell post! This time for our colleague Louise Tierney, Digital Services Team Leader, Project WIP’er (and UX Wizard) who has decided after ten years working for Shropshire Council that...
View ArticleIt’s alive! (the new SLG)
A few months ago I wrote about the Shropshire Learning Gateway project and the particular challenges it presented. One of the biggest was the deadline – due to the urgent need to retire the existing...
View ArticleIt never rains but it pours! Managing a LocalGov digital service in severe...
Wow, what a week it has been – flooding, snow, falling trees, roofs blowing off, missing animals and road closures! I am not going to lie, it has been stressful, but it is at times like this that I am...
View ArticleWell I never – I’m certifiable!
I am not, by nature or inclination, a codehead. Dale and Lewis often speak in tongues that leave me reeling. The extent of my interest in all things computers was that when I was little I had a ZX...
View ArticleumbLocalGov 2 – will you be attending?
Following a lot of questions over social media, and from meeting others at various public sector events, we have put together another free – yes, FREE – “Umbraco in Local Government” event for the...
View ArticleFarewell Lorna
It’s with a heavy heart that we must say goodbye to Lorna, who has taken voluntary redundancy from Shropshire Council. After leaving what could have been a glittering career ‘sexing chickens’ (nope, me...
View ArticleCome and work with us
As you may have noticed from our recent posts, we’ve have had a few of our team move on to pastures new (or return to university to complete their studies after spending their placement with us)....
View ArticleWhat’s going on?
The title of this post is actually a question we’ve been asked multiple times in just as many different contexts, and is an appropriate question to ask of Project WIP as a whole considering that we’ve...
View ArticleHello and Goodbye – my time at Project WIP
I’m Liam Northwood, and today, Thursday 8th September 2016, my time with the Digital Services team (aka the talented people behind Project WIP) will come to an end. Instead of them writing up a...
View ArticleBusyness as usual…
Somehow it’s spring already, despite Christmas seeming like yesterday. Having said that, the conveyor belt has been rumbling along at an unprecedented pace, and we’ve managed to unleash a slew of new...
View ArticleConfessions of a #LocalGovCamp attendee – part 2
With day 1 of LocalGovCamp 2017 down, it was time to see what day 2 entailed, (and more amusingly, how people’s heads were feeling after the meal/social event the prior evening). Day 2 This was the...
View Article2018 – well that went quickly!
In time-honoured tradition (a tradition we only really started a couple of years back), it’s time to review what we’ve got up to, and what we’ve got planned for the coming year. So sit back, relax and...
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