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Tech Lead Finn Lewis with news of the latest microsite sprint, featuring updates on user testing, content types, and more.

Cumbria Council explain how they are using a clever Drupal module called Entity Share to allow the checking of content on a staging website, and then pushing whole sections to live when they're ready.

David Siddall, Digital Content and UX Manager at Waltham Forest Council, tells us why search was so important to their latest web build and how they implemented Solr.

Sometimes sprint planning can take much longer than expected! Such was the case with sprint 2 planning. We reached the end of our two hour planning session with plenty more work to do to define user stories and other tasks in terms of clear acceptance criteria.

Finn, our Tech Lead, explains more...

Finn and Richard tell us what happened in Sprint one of the Microsites project...

Sprint 1 started with a shift of energies. By sprint-end we had all rallied well and were able to demo a suite of decisions that gets us much closer to being able to start building. 

This is a regularly updated post containing information on our Microsites Working Group.

The aim is to keep everyone updated on the direction and progress of the work we’re doing.

David Siddall, Product Lead at Waltham Forest, explains how LocalGov Drupal saved them 3-6 months of development time and £90k in development costs.

Will Callaghan, project lead here at LocalGov Drupal, reflects on a recent Directories Show and Tell that we ran alongside Greenwich Council.

The two hour session was attended by over 60 individuals from councils right across the UK, all of whom are looking to improve their directories offering.

LocalGov Drupal was recently used a case study by a US foundation investigating software sharing.

Here is the executive summary of their findings.

Our ground breaking new project has been awarded continuation funding from the DLUHC Local Digital Fund to continue its work facilitating digital collaboration between local councils.