The Scottish Government is running a series of workshops for public sector employees on ‘Scotland\u2019s Digital Future: Delivery of Public Services’. \u00a0The event will focus on ‘new ways of working \u2013 not just\u00a0deploying new technology but ensuring that we focus on the user and deliver cost\u2010effectively’.<\/p>\n
To book a place, one has to download the booking form in Microsoft Word format, complete it and email it back. It’s rather depressing that a department charged with looking at the future should use such an inefficient way of booking. \u00a0Eventbrite<\/a>, for example, is a free online booking system that I can use from my smartphone or tablet (I can’t edit a Word document on my smartphone or tablet, and even on a PC this is an efficient way of working). Someone in government will have to transcribe all the information from hundreds<\/em> of Word documents and compile attendance lists. \u00a0Eventbrite does this automatically, saving hours on administration.<\/p>\n Online booking is not the future: it’s here now. It’s easy to set up and easier for the user. Should we not expect the government to lead by example?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Scottish Government is running a series of workshops for public sector employees on ‘Scotland\u2019s Digital Future: Delivery of Public Services’. \u00a0The event will focus on ‘new ways of working \u2013 not just\u00a0deploying new technology but ensuring that we focus on the user and deliver cost\u2010effectively’. To book a place, one has to download the… Read More »Book now for the digital future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}