Interested in Sponsoring or Exhibiting?
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Gold Sponsors
The Local Directgov team will be at the Building the Perfect
Council Website event to give information about the Local Directgov application
and how to make use of it to enhance your council's website.
Local Directgov connects local services to Directgov by providing links
to 240 services in all 353 local authorities in England. Directgov aims
to make it easier for citizens to connect to information from across government
by providing relevant customer-focused services all in one place.
Through the Local Directgov application citizens are able to access information
for their local area by following specially designed links on the Directgov
website. For example, a citizen looking at general information on a Directgov
webpage about council tax can follow the link 'pay your council tax',
enter their postcode, town or street name or local authority and, through
the application, be taken directly to the page on their local council's
website providing this service.
The most popular services accessed via Local Directgov include finding
out about school term dates, Blue Badge parking permits, council tax discount
and get local information on swine flu.
Local Directgov provides support for councils wanting to use Local Directgov
links to link from their site to services provided by other councils in
the area. For example, a county council can use Local Directgov links
on their website to direct users to services provided by the right district
council, and vice versa.
At this year's event we will be giving information about how Local Directgov
fits in with the government's Point of Single Contact Programme and how
we work with Directgov and businesslink.gov.uk to maintain strong links
to local services. We continue to work with both Directgov and businesslink.gov.uk
on web convergence.
Local Directgov will be running some interactive workshops with practical
advice on designing websites and developing an optimum customer experience.
Members of the Local Directgov team will be available to answer questions
throughout the day and can arrange 1 to 1 sessions for anyone who wants
to discuss the following options and services
* LDG admin interface
* Point of single contact
* Web services
* LDG widgets
* Making the most of LDG links on your council's website etc.
Jadu is a UK based CMS software and solutions supplier that specialises in enterprise web content management, transactional and search systems. Jadu was established in 2001 and has since become one of the leading CMS vendors in the UK.
The Jadu CMS was developed in partnership between Jadu and the UK Local Authorities that use the system (The Jadu eGov Partnership) and provides a suite of web productivity tools as standard. It also provides a simple, non-technical publishing solution for internet, intranet and extranet applications - compliant with international web standards and a recognised reputation for accessibility.
Jadu CMS also integrates with other systems such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and enables objectives, set by initiatives such as NI14, to be achieved efficiently whilst remaining compliant to the eGIF and international web standards.
Jadu was the UK's first Google Partner in 2006 and has since implemented a large number of Google Enterprise Search systems, becoming the first CMS vendor in Europe to include integration with the Google Appliance with all its enterprise CMS systems.
Jadu is also the first commercial Web Content Management provider to offer an integrated Twitter module within its CMS software. This enhances brand management, customer service and knowledge management. Available as a free upgrade, the 'Jadu CMS Client for Twitter' enables organisations that use Jadu CMS to engage with the social web and maintain standards for transparency and compliance.
Jadu works with a large number of Local Government customers
and also has customers in a range of additional sectors including Higher
Education, Not for Profit, Membership and Commercial organisations.
For more product information about Jadu please visit www.jadu.co.uk
or for Jadu CMS Client for Twitter tweet directly with Jadu at www.twitter.com/JaduCMS
Silver Sponsors
Alterian Content Manager Corporate Edition, formerly known as Immediacy, is a powerful web content management system (CMS) that enables non-technical users to create and manage content, carry out administrative tasks and add functionality across websites, intranets and extranets. Our latest CMS is ideally suited to organisations requiring e-GIF and e-GMS. Features include: WYSIWYG editor, accessible interface, drag & drop publishing, XML/XHTML/CSS standards, built-in compliance checker, image manipulation, IPSV, Dublin Core, audit trial, version history and workflow.
With over 50 UK local authority customers, many central government and numerous public bodies, Alterian has a large and growing public sector customer base including London Borough of Redbridge (www.redbridge.gov.uk) and its award-winning interactive website and Allerdale Borough Council (www.allerdale.gov.uk) that has achieved top (excellent) rating in the latest SOCITM 'Better Connected' report.
T: +44 (0)1202 250 000
E: cms@alterian.com
W: www.alterian.com
Sitecore profile Sitecore (www.sitecore.net) is a world leader in pure .NET web content management and portal software. Sitecore’s award-winning CMS software makes it easy for organisations to create and keep up-to-date dynamic, full featured websites of all types. Sitecore’s industry leading flexibility and scalability allows organisations to better leverage their content to create compelling web experiences and engage with customers. In this way Sitecore helps them to communicate effectively with their publics and drives business growth by helping them realize the full potential of their online business strategies.
Thousands of public and private organisations, including national governments and Fortune 500 companies utilise Sitecore solutions for their websites. These organisations have created and now manage over 20,000 dynamic websites with
Sitecore including Microsoft, Sara Lee, Siemens, ABN Amro, Omni Hotels, DVLA, Manchester United, National Portrait Gallery, Bristol Airport and The Science Museum. Sitecore’s solution partners such as ActiveIS (www.activeis.net); Addition (www.additionconsulting.com); Edusev (www.eduserv.org.uk); Fresh Egg (www.freshegg.com); Panlogic (www.panlogic.co.uk) and Reading Room (www.readingroom.com) are some its key players who specialise in expert implementation projects.
Exhibitors
BrowseAloud is the world leading text-to-speech solution from Texthelp Systems Ltd, which is designed to improve website accessibility for those with literacy difficulties, learning difficulties such as dyslexia, mild visual impairments or where English is a second language. With a choice of 17 high quality voices covering 9 languages and a number of unique features, BrowseAloud is quickly being adopted as the product of choice worldwide.
Texthelp Systems Ltd was formally incorporated in 1996 and
specialise in the design of assistive software solutions to support those
struggling to read and write. The company is a Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner, Adobe Solutions Network Developer, Apple Business Partner, HP
Business Partner and is ISO 9001:2000 accredited. For the past 9 consecutive
years, Texthelp Systems Ltd has been a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award
winning company.
For further information Tel: +44(0)28 9442 8105 Email: info@browsealoud.com Web: www.browsealoud.com
Contensis is a long-standing supplier of CMS and website projects in the Local Government sector. As one of the earliest developers of Web CMS software in the UK, our expertise is greatly valued by councils throughout the country. Following a record year and many new public sector projects, Contensis will be giving a sneak preview of the latest update, Contensis R5.1. If you want to make accessibility, personalisation and LGNL a cinch, and all at cost-conscious budget levels, come for a demo or just a chat with us on stand 6.
T: 01584 824212
www.contentmanagement.co.uk
Email: a.green@contensis.co.uk
Since its founding in 1998, Ektron has provided affordable Web content management and authoring solutions. With over 20,000 customer integrations worldwide, Ektron understands what a successful Web, intranet or extranet site needs.
Ektron CMS400.NET is a single application that addresses all of your business' online needs and grows with you as your online requirements and expertise increase. Ektron CMS400.NET empowers developers and non-technical business users alike: developers can take advantage of built-in Server Controls to deploy a Web Site out-of-the-box or and business users' benefit from an intuitive user interface for managing their Web site's content and messaging.
www.ektron.com.uk
email: norman.graves@ektron.co.uk
eSSENTIAL Accessibility Inc. is the provider of a new solution that makes online environments fully accessible to individuals with physical disabilities.
Over 5 millions individuals in the UK have difficulty typing, moving a mouse, or reading a screen. No matter how well designed a website may be, they can’t access e-government services without expensive assistive technology.
Our solution gives them the tools needed to overcome the barriers to accessing a website from a standard PC. Effectively, it ensures that anyone with a physical disability can access any website that carries this icon:
Join our Online Social ResponsAbility initiative and become barrier-free at essentialaccesssibility.com today.
Firmstep works with 30% of local authorities in the UK and government organisations around the world in helping them achieve their ambition of world-class citizen services.
Firmstep for Government allows the creation of personalised self-service portals so you can provide authenticated access to services from your website. Authenticated customers can access and track services, complete transactions, find information, and engage with the local community, through a single, secure online view.
The Firmstep platform includes some of the best web technology in the areas of personalisation, identity management, service delivery, and social collaboration.
The platform includes leading technology components AchieveForms and AchieveBookings, for online forms and bookings.
How GOSS builds perfect council websites
GOSS has a proven pedigree and substantial Local Authority client list. Over the last 10 years we have developed partnerships with in excess of 40 Local Authorities.
Our no fuss solutions allow you to adhere to government guidelines and make your website individual and engaging. GOSS understands the transformational pressures to meet online standards but our flexible partnership approach ensures you can deploy a dynamic Web 2.0 content rich solution and adhere to best practice.
GOSS iCM (intelligent Content Management) allows you to maintain large website with devolved content contribution.
Recent innovations:
* Mail-to-web content contribution
* iSuggest - content and metadata suggestion tool
* SharePoint integration
* Lagan integration
Create and manage your Web 2.0 content:
* Personalised homepages
* RSS, Twitter accounts, Widgets and Gadgets
* Blogs/Vlogs
* Dynamic search
* Mapping
Support user generated content:
* Tagging
* Forums
* Polls
* File sharing
* Social Networking
Recent awards
GOSS clients www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk and www.hillingdon.gov.uk were both recognised at the LG Communication awards.
Follow us at www.twitter.com/gossinteractive
t: +44 (0)1752 517350 f: +44 (0)1752 517110 www.gossinteractive.com
info@gossinteractive.com
GovDelivery is a proactive public communication solution
offering local authorities a highly effective method of reaching, informing
and engaging the public.
Built specifically for the public sector, GovDelivery is the world's leading
government-to-citizen communication solution. The Software as a Service
platform utilises powerful communication channels, including email; text
messaging; social media (Twitter®, Facebook®, YouTube®, Blogs);
and RSS to reach the public and lower communication costs.
Clients include Norfolk County Council, Norwich City Council, Parliament;
Department for Business; Innovation and Skills; Highways Agency and Department
of Energy and Climate Change.
To learn more about how GovDelivery can improve your communications efforts,
contact us at 0800-032-5769, visit www.govdelivery.com
or email us at info@govdelivery.com.
ActiveStandards is the website quality and compliance monitoring solution for multi-site, multi-editor web estates.
It's a managed service that automatically scans every page, of every one of your websites, to expose quality issues, covering everything from usability rules, to brand guidelines, accessibility and SEO best practice.
ActiveStandards helps you maintain a consistent, high-quality web presence, delivering the following benefits:
1) Maximise website effectiveness and user experience
Improved website quality and consistent tone of voice, translates to more
effective information delivery and visitor satisfaction.
2) Ensure compliance with accessibility standards
Maintain target levels of accessibility (WCAG 1.0 and 2.0) as content
is published, ensuring that your information is available to all sectors
of your community.
3) Optimise your SEO activities
Get optimum return on your search engine marketing and improve your organic
search engine ranking, increasing your "findability" for target audiences.
4) Streamline operational efficiency
Cut costs, reduce the time spent on manual quality assurance by up to
75%, and free your team to focus on adding value - saving you time, money
and effort.
5) Energise and engage your web teams
Deliver the right information to the right people in an easy-to-use format
that makes sense to them, and helps them prioritise their workload. Drive
continual improvements based on facts.
Directgov, BusinessLink, LT Scotland and major corporates such as Shell, Unilever, and ING are just some of the organisations using ActiveStandards to maintain website quality and compliance.
Matraxis is the leading UK Webtrends partner, distributor and consultancy
provider, delivering web analytics as the foundation for improved web
site performance, productivity and conversion in the public sector. Matraxis
provides solutions to many Local Authorities, educational establishments,
government bodies and other public sector organisations.
At Building Perfect Councils Website 09 we will be showcasing some exciting new developments in web behavioural analysis to provide a deeper understanding of your web presence. Onsite visitor behaviour is optimised through A/B and multivariate testing and extended insight beyond your site to Social Networks is now here.
Social Media Measurement delivers valuable insight and understanding gained from the blogs, tweets and comments in which your citizens express their opinions, needs, ideas and complaints. Monitor social media conversations, receive up-to-the-minute notification about relevant mentions and capture everything from the opinions in their posting to their social bookmarks, downloads, favourites, views, votes and links. Workflow and engagement tools help you track conversations, assign internal tasks to respond and keep track of how the dialogue evolves.
With a heritage in Business Intelligence, management information and data warehousing, Matraxis is ideally placed to help organisations gain maximum advantage from their website investments though integrated analysis and reporting.
Shaw Trust is one of the UK’s top providers of Web Accreditation.
Our Web Accreditation Service is designed to be the most comprehensive service available and is endorsed by The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS).
Our service can audit and accredit websites in line with W3C guidelines against WCAG 1.0, WCAG 2.0 and Section 508. You can be confident of meeting the highest standards of web accessibility in line with PAS78 guidelines.
The service offers a full technical audit with rigorous user testing. Every member of our testing team is an experienced assistive technology user. They understand the frustrations of not being able to access websites that don’t consider the needs of people who are disabled. We’re passionate, enthusiastic and committed to making it work and we have the experience to make it work for you.
Since 2003, Siteimprove has become a household name within the public sector, providing web management tools to approaching 45% of councils and many other public bodies.
Our customers tell us they value our easy-to-use products that save them time and are affordable as well as benefiting from our high level of customer service.
Siteimprove products are designed to fit into the everyday work requirements of a person involved with the management and maintenance of a public sector website. Information can be shared as well as responsibilities and tasks delegated. With a few simple steps, you and your colleagues can set up customised user groups, ensuring that each user of the service receives information relevant to their specific area of responsibility on the website.
Our products cover the following areas:
· website quality control – managing broken links, spelling errors and
accessibility issues
· web analytics · internal search engines
· web server monitoring
· website archiving
We offer free trials on all our products which you can use in the same way as if you are already a customer. You can ask us to set up a trial and see one of our products in action on a council site at the Siteimprove stand.