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How I build cool stuff for government(and I’m not a back-ender)
A year ago
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LEARNING COOL STUFF
Then I went to:
• Web Directions• Jelly• Webjam• WSG
Then I went to:
• Web Directions• Jelly• Webjam
And met lots of cool people
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LEARNING COOL STUFF
and learnt new dance moves
(FAIL)
one day I decided to build an RSS feed for our news
(CMS still didn’t have one)
One of the cool things I learnt...
but I didn’t know how to build a feed(properly)
Dapper
RSS feed Twitterfeed Twitter
Feedburner Email subscriptions
Stats
(So I used apps)
Dapper
RSS feed Twitterfeed Twitter
Feedburner Email subscriptions
iGoogle Gadget (So my Boss knew this stuff was cool)
}Stats
(So I used apps)
Then I got other people to build cool stuff for me
like this widget that shows water savings in real-time
Saving water is good
Widgets look cool
(its like watching a lava lamp)
(The Man In Blue)
and the Cultural Awards 2008(Agency Rainford)
If you want to know why it’s cool,
come and see my presentation tomorrow at WDS08
(11.45am)
I want more people in local government to build cool stuff
So me and Reem started the Local Government Web Network
and organised a conference
MeReem
So we could talk to other gov web peeps about building cool stuff
John Allsopp opened the conference
He showed this slide
How inconvenient!
I thought...
How inconvenient!that she had to stop her bike and get out her phone
I thought...
Official bike routes
Weather
Parks
Water fountains
Bike shops
Bike racks
Bike lockers
- Voice updates
- (i)Phone mounted to handlebars
Location based info:
Better!
“Old drain covers grrrrrr.
The slots run same way as wheels
- really dangerous”
Alerted to their location
Report them to council
Official bike routes
Weather
Parks
Water fountains
Bike shops
Bike racks
Bike lockers
- Voice updates
- (i)Phone mounted to handlebars
Location based info:
Better!
Useful
That stuff has already been built, or will be soon.
So what would be really cool?
IRON MAN
cool tracking system
So you don’t have to look down at the
phone
cool tracking system
Can someone build and Iron Man style bike helmet with in built location targeting system
that you can talk to?
But then hey, why would you be riding a bike?
(but that’s not the point)
There’s lots of cool stuff you AND government could do with public data
I want to help
You can help:
• Keep building cool apps (cos I can’t), so I and other (gov) people can use them :)
• Tell me if you’ve built something cool (especially if its using public data)
• Tell me if you want to work with us
• Or, if you want to teach us
www.lgwebnetwork.org
Some wise words
Some wise wordsTake all your 40,00 PDFs and put it on a web page
Take all your 40,00 PDFs and put it on a web page
Find someone who rides a bike
so they’ll support your idea
Some wise words
Take all your 40,00 PDFs and put it on a web page
Find someone who rides a bike
so they’ll support your idea
Just Build It.
Some wise words
Build stuff that your boss will use and that makes people go
ooh like a lava lamp
This is my dream
Want to help?