Tag Archives: Marketing and Communications

Call for usability test participants

We’re now at a stage in the redevelopment of the Web Guide where a rough, prototype-quality, first cut of the new site is ready to be put before users. We’ll be putting the site structure, information architecture and usability of the prototype through its paces, and we’re hoping you could help us out (and help out [...]

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Social Media 101: A beginner’s guide for Finance employees

Firstly, an introduction: I’m the manager of the Online Services Branch of the Australian Government Information Management Office, which is part of the Department of Finance and Deregulation (Finance). My branch is responsible for redeveloping the Web Publishing Guide.
We know from our stats and from agency queries that some of the most popular pages on [...]

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Focus Group Research Report – Drilling Down

Update: We’ve discovered some accessibility issues with the in-blog version of this document. To view it in this format, it’s available at http://www.slideshare.net/webpublishing/agimo-web-publishing-guide-review-research-report, other formats are below

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Did We Hear You Correctly?

A couple of months ago we ran some focus groups on what people think about the Web Publishing Guide – what they like and don’t like about the Guide, and what we could do to the Guide to make their jobs easier. The results are sitting in our inbox now.
Many of you will already have [...]

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“Hello World”

“Hello world”. It’s a traditional exercise for programmers learning a new language, so it makes sense to use it here.  It’s possible that the phrase “Hello, new world” may be more applicable – we’re not necessarily learning new programming languages, but we are modifying our use of web technologies in new and exciting ways.  For [...]

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