Every Friday, we take a quick look back at the week and highlight members or moments that were especially awesome. Here’s who and what rocked it out this week. 5. The Most Commented Blog of the Week was Megan Price‘s Top 5 – Airport Etiquette. Megan has been traveling a lot lately and decided toRead… Read more »
Yea, I may have complained about technology on Government computers in the past but this encounter takes the cake. I’m trying to use our online travel voucher program, T-PAX, and it has locked up and failed every day for the last two weeks. What’s the solution? In this internet age of Tweets, Chirps, Pings, Facebooks,Read… Read more »
I’m intentionally blogging this part on Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT or body scans) separate today as it addresses an opinion on TSA practices, whereas the first portion offered a potential solution to the problem. Why body scans don’t worry me today: I believe it’s a fair tradeoff for added security. I respect that you mayRead… Read more »
Chris Bennett’s Crisis Blog (CB2) Part 1 of 2 on the TSA Debate The TSA pat-down situation is making national and GovLoop headlines this week as images of naked body scans and videos of screaming children being frisked circulate through millions of travelers and non-travelers alike. In today’s CB2 I’ll propose a partial solution toRead… Read more »
You’ll have noticed the drift towards freeing up the information of the UK’s Foreign Office for others to use – the feeds, the API, the social media, and so on. Getting our travel advice especially into the sites, widgets, pages, applications that others are using is hugely important. We have to take this stuff toRead… Read more »
Over the short life of my blog on the site of the UK’s Foreign Office, I’ve posted a number of times about the ways you can access our feeds , some more feeds and how Directgov’s Innovate team in the UK took up the challenge to build an API. The thought behind this remains consistentRead… Read more »
I’ve had some issues lately with luggage having to get checked or getting lost and re-routed without me. So I’m determined to pack lighter and use a suit case that fits on any plane. I did a quick search on YouTube and found this awesome video. In 2:30, I obtained just the lesson in foldingRead… Read more »
I’ve said before on this blog (as the sole avid reader will remember) that the mantra for what the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is trying to do digitally is distribution, not destination. We’re not trying to create a network of must-visit websites – experience tells us that government websites tend not to work like that,Read… Read more »
More travel news feeds, this time they come ready-filtered In August, I blogged about trying to get developers to use our information feeds to plug into their own sites and applications as a way of helping us to broaden the spread of some of our core information. It’s very much the case that accurate andRead… Read more »
Providing accurate and timely travel advice is one of the key functions of the Foreign Office, and one of the key drivers of our web presence. Our Travel and living abroad section provides background notes for travellers on every country in the world, including timely alerts of the implications of all sorts of issues whichRead… Read more »