> Hi all

> I hoped to go along to last Thursday's Cafe Zest to ask this Q, but
> failed (again!) to escape the desk.

> Just a quick bit of benchmarking. The stats professionals here at
> Communities and Local Government tell us that ONS now require all
> stats publications and releases to be distanced from the corporate
> website and any ministerial content, and to be gathered in one place.
> (Nice of ONS to tell us themselves...)

> How are other Departments planning to meet this? We are fulfilling the
> 1 April deadline by creating dummy pages directing users to the actual
> content where it currently resides, but are considering our options
> for a better solution, such as hiving stats off into a separate
> microsite/subdomain.

> If you have people looking into this within your teams can you let me
> have some names and numbers so we can swap ideas?

> Cheers
> Neil

> Re: the Thursday tea things, not planning to change these yet, but  
> there is plenty of space for other kinds of events that will probably  
> see light of day shortly. But there's also space for anyone to  
> suggest/organise any other kind of event on any other day.

> On 10 Mar 2008, at 11:04, Neil Williams wrote:

> > Hi all

> > I hoped to go along to last Thursday's Cafe Zest to ask this Q, but
> > failed (again!) to escape the desk.

> > Just a quick bit of benchmarking. The stats professionals here at
> > Communities and Local Government tell us that ONS now require all
> > stats publications and releases to be distanced from the corporate
> > website and any ministerial content, and to be gathered in one place.
> > (Nice of ONS to tell us themselves...)

> > How are other Departments planning to meet this? We are fulfilling the
> > 1 April deadline by creating dummy pages directing users to the actual
> > content where it currently resides, but are considering our options
> > for a better solution, such as hiving stats off into a separate
> > microsite/subdomain.

> > If you have people looking into this within your teams can you let me
> > have some names and numbers so we can swap ideas?

> > Cheers
> > Neil- Hide quoted text -

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> You haven't heard of it? Curiouser and curiouser. I will dig about a
> bit more and see where this is really coming from, and how much
> thought they've given (if any!) to rationalisation and consistency
> across govt. Perhaps it's just chinese whispers from our stats lot.

> ...It's worth govt webteams joining up more :)

> On Mar 10, 2:09 pm, Jeremygould <jeremygo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do you mean 'distanced from the corporate website?' Sounds like
>> its cross purposes to website rationalistion? We've heard nothing,
>> and even if I did I would tell them to get lost. Do you know what
>> their reasoning is? We're always getting 'told' by someone else to
>> create new sites or standalone sections for things of little interest
>> to anyone but the originators. The answer is invariably the same - we
>> publish for our users not them.

>> Re: the Thursday tea things, not planning to change these yet, but
>> there is plenty of space for other kinds of events that will probably
>> see light of day shortly. But there's also space for anyone to
>> suggest/organise any other kind of event on any other day.

>> On 10 Mar 2008, at 11:04, Neil Williams wrote:

>>> Hi all

>>> I hoped to go along to last Thursday's Cafe Zest to ask this Q, but
>>> failed (again!) to escape the desk.

>>> Just a quick bit of benchmarking. The stats professionals here at
>>> Communities and Local Government tell us that ONS now require all
>>> stats publications and releases to be distanced from the corporate
>>> website and any ministerial content, and to be gathered in one  
>>> place.
>>> (Nice of ONS to tell us themselves...)

>>> How are other Departments planning to meet this? We are  
>>> fulfilling the
>>> 1 April deadline by creating dummy pages directing users to the  
>>> actual
>>> content where it currently resides, but are considering our options
>>> for a better solution, such as hiving stats off into a separate
>>> microsite/subdomain.

>>> If you have people looking into this within your teams can you  
>>> let me
>>> have some names and numbers so we can swap ideas?

>>> Cheers
>>> Neil- Hide quoted text -

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