Renfrewshire Community Website

9 October 2007

www.renfrewshire.gov.uk

We haven’t got a good webcam……..

…or neat services menus……

..or a complete set of online services

but we’ve had some good results

launched Nov 2005 SPIN / Socitm Scottish public sector

website of the year 2007 one of seven Scottish transactional sites Internet Crystal Mark accredited good population : user ratio top quartile Site Morse rating but all success is transient

Review of the site build 2005-07

Review of the site build 2005-07(2)

Organisational set-up

Communcations and New Media team determine editorial content /site structure

Web Development Team determine technical aspects of the site

departmental authors and approvers provide content

CNM team corporately approve content and monitor the development plans

CNM team do marketing and promotion work with departments

two working groups for project management and technical changes

2005 - site build principles

navigation: copy Socitm best practice use of LAWS categories for sorting content capable of ‘AA’ accessibility rating Plain English accredited Community ‘portal’ theme ‘demand led’ approach

Site at launch 31/10/05

2006 - Socitm audit outcomes

rushed site launch in evidence in places

short on transactions

design aspects commended

a ‘compelling user experience’

Development plan

 used ‘Better Connected - Aiming High’ as a template for our web development plan

based on a comprehensive annual site audit added input from the Plain English Campaign

and Audit Scotland target was to complete as many ‘Ensure that..’

items ‘consider’ items where possible

Development plan (2)

 target date was the November audit - a 10 month development plan

most work was in the 3 month Aug - Oct period NonStopGov commissioned to provide the

transactions we assessed our plan progress at 70% at the

Socitm review start incomplete items carried forward into the

current plan

a ‘demand led’ approach

customer service strategy : continuous improvement needs continuous feedback

supply what people tell you they want, not what you think they need

Some improvements to make …

‘we know we can do better because our website users tell us how to improve the site through a constant stream of feedback. This is processed into new web development work’

‘this is part of a demand- led approach that underpins a lot of what we do’

Feedback mechanisms

Neilsen NetRatings WebTrends Eforms - complaints Specialised audits - Socitm, Plain English and

Audit Scotland usability and accessibility reviews public services panel selective marketing – best impact recruitment - case study

Nielsen NetRatings

Nielsen NetRatings- feedback

eforms

Feedback – usability

Feedback -accessibility

WAI Checkpoints Failed/Nearly Passed Priority 1 Checkpoints

Failed : 6.3 Nearly Passed : 2.1, 12.1

Priority 2 Checkpoints Failed : 2.2, 3.2, 3.6, 7.5, 10.1,

11.1, 11.2, 13.2, 13.4, 12.4, 6.4, 9.2

Nearly Passed : 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 13.1

Removing clutter

Removing clutter (2)

The new plan

Socitm ‘Better Marketed’ website marketing report annual programme of news and features more functionality more interaction – SurveyMonkey Citizen’s Account - new self service transactions?

The new plan - growing pains

resource lag responding to customer demand quickly intranet development ‘done the web’

Technical information

IBM WCM content management system Realise plc design Nonstop Gov eforms LocalView mapping Socitm site audit User Vision usability and accessibility audits Lotus Notes databases Plantech planning applications Anite, Swift, …

Thank you Q & A?

Nigel Goldsmith Communications and Mew Media Manager Renfrewshire Council HQ North Building Cotton Street Paisley PA1 1 BU

0141 840 3620 nigel.goldsmith@renfrewshire.gov.uk