One of our first steps when we started on the new site was to jot down some guidelines and ambitions for our work. In no small part inspired by the Government Digital Service* these should help us make the right decision, and keep us from getting lost down blind-alleys: Always put people first Set the […]
To general relief (and for some – deep frustration at wasted effort) the ICO softened their Cookie Law guidance last week around implied consent. Whether our fairly straight-forward approach on jisc.ac.uk is enough we’ll have to wait and see… Becoming a cookie cutter After an Attacat Cookie Audit we stripped out our more intrusive cookies*. We […]
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Towards a new Jisc website
Jisc watchers will know that the organisation is going through a major reorganisation at the moment. There’s loads of information about this on the Jisc website so I won’t attempt to badly summarise it here (the news article, “JISC announces new structure to reshape for the future“, is a good place to start). The new […]
As part of the upcoming development of jisc.ac.uk we’re running a quick survey to gauge where we are now. If you’ve used the site, and are happy to answer a few questions, you can take the survey now… …and along with being part of the future development of the site you’ll be in with a […]
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Services section revamp
We’ve revamped the Services section of the JISC website. As well as improving the look and feel, we’ve tried to make it easier to browse the range of services that JISC offers and quickly identify the services offered by our principal providers, such as JISC Advance or Edina. The content and structure of each service […]
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5 month roundup
Tumbleweeds rolling through this blog the last few months. No coincidence really that my last post coincided with the departure of Kerry from the team, bringing the grand total to … well, me. So it’s been firefighting, stopping things falling off the website and covering Kerry’s role as best I could these last 5 months, […]
We have today launched JISC Mobile, a cut-down version of the JISC website, optimised for mobile use. The site contains recent content that users are likely to want to access whilst on the move, such as news items or podcasts. It doesn’t contain all the content on the JISC website and links are provided on […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about digital strategy over the past couple of months as we get our digital communications plans together for the next year or two. It’s very hard, and I can see why many digital teams don’t have an explicit strategy document that they wave proudly around at anyone that asks. The […]
After 29 printed editions, JISC Inform 30 will be going online. We thought fellow communications teams and individuals in education, faced with the same challenge, might like to know how we are taking an established printed publication and moving it to work on the web. This is new for us and you could say a […]
The JISC Digital Communications Team blog is dead. Long live the JISC Digital Communications blog. This started out as a team blog, with the aim of keeping people up to date with our work and our thoughts. However, as digital now permeates so much of what we do as a Comms team, from events, through […]