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Online surveys are certainly a convenient way to gather opinions on a subject, but just how accurate is this survey method? A wide variety of factors go into determining whether an online survey can provide the polling organization with accurate results. Since an accurate representation of popular opinion is the goal of most surveys, how [...]
In the 2012 election, voter turnout in the United States was highest it had been since 1968. And still, only 57.5% percent of eligible Americans went to the polls. Indeed, Americans have never been particularly great at showing up on the Election Day. A 2001 study, for example, ranked the United States 120th in [...]
Though the majority of your staff are hard working, diligent, and paint your company in a positive light, there will be the odd one or two who will not. This was highlighted to us recently. One of our clients who will remain nameless had invested heavily in an email marketing campaign. They worked in the [...]
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on Whitehall to work more closely with local authorities in the digital by default programme. In its first public statement on the programme, the LGA said that local authorities have a crucial role to play in designing and developing digital public services to help reduce costs and make [...]
Ofcom has today published a report for the Government on the coverage, take-up, usage, price and choice of fixed and mobile broadband services in the UK, relative to other European countries. The ‘European Broadband Scorecard’ was proposed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to allow the Government to measure progress towards its [...]
Government published its Cyber Security Strategy (1) in November 2011. This set out our intentions to encourage industry-led standards and guidance that are used by organisations to manage the risk to their information, and to encourage companies that are good at managing information risk make this a selling point for their business. This call for [...]
Ofcom has awarded the licence to run the local TV service in Preston on digital terrestrial TV (DTT), completing the first phase of local TV licensing. The award follows legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences. The channels will broadcast on a specific ‘multiplex’, a discrete amount of spectrum reserved for local TV broadcasting [...]
Council websites are falling in standards, with visitors decreasingly satisfied at a time when the public sector is striving to push services online, a report has warned. In central government ministers are pushing forward a digital by default agenda, with digital transactions up to 50 times cheaper to run. But Socitm, the society for IT managers, [...]
Hundreds of millions of pounds will be saved through a new independently run shared service centre that could eventually see private and public sectors share back office services in order to cut costs, ministers have announced. The move is expected to help create a faster and smaller civil service. Governments had for decades failed in [...]
HMRC have produced a number of videos that have been released on YouTube to help new and growing businesses with tax and employment issues. The YouTube videos cover subjects like PAYE, VAT, Corporation Tax, record keeping, registering as an employer, payroll systems, and trading overseas, with case studies from real businesses offered. The department has [...]
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