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Last chance to make your tax deductible donation for EOFY: Chip in to help us keep vital services going https://t.co/yhWf6R5LAP A small number of ordinary humans can help do great things #openaustralia#rightoknow#theyvoteforyou#planningalerts
It's my least favorite thing in the world - asking for money but if you value OpenAustralia Foundation's work and our financially self-sabotaging independence then please support us https://t.co/0kWOpYvOSk
Civic infrastructure for the informed local citizen in Australia - help keep Planning Alerts running for the next 12 months. Donate $15, $50 or whatever feels right to you.
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Read the final installment in Sabina Popin's three part series on applying research service design to improving Planning Alerts. There's real gold here.
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Service designer Sabina Popin dives into recent research, testing and insights aimed at enhancing your #PlanningAlerts experience.
Find out how service design is done in practise in part 2 of this 3 part series
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We currently use https://t.co/hiXtRC9X8T to accept donations. It's worked pretty well for us and was a great improvement in terms of reliability and ease of use from using https://t.co/bUuIKAiOBf before.
Is it still the best thing for us to use this year? Suggestions please!
We're also working on a complete visual redesign for Planning Alerts. It's going to be a big change but a good one. Take it away from the 1990s vibe that it's got going on right now. 😱 We'll have some sneak peeks to share hopefully soon
For the last few months our focus has been on improving https://t.co/BkQ0OMB5Xt. We've modernised the code-base, made lots of small and large performance improvements and migrated from mysql to postgres to enable further optimisation and new features.
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We've also had the pleasure of bringing Sabina Popin in to our team for a few months to bring her service designs skills to work on Planning Alerts.
The first of a three part series on what she did and found:
https://t.co/Z5jZ0ccvAU
It's end of financial year and we'll be running a fundraiser in the coming weeks. We haven't done this in two years.
After that we'll be going properly quiet here on Twitter. You will find us over on https://t.co/N9kDnEiCI6. Hope you can keep up with us there.
Service Designer and Researcher, Sabina Popin joined us temporarily to help improve Planning Alerts. Read the ins and outs in the first part of this three part series "Journey to Improving Planning Alerts: A Service Designer’s Perspective" https://t.co/Z5jZ0cd3qs
Joanna Hill, Service Designer and Researcher, writes about her experience and methods of digging around in PlanningAlerts' email inbox to understand the experience of people using the service https://t.co/7iotP2a0zq
We've just added automatic social cards to the people comparison page on https://t.co/AjOG7RkPhX
It's a little flaky because they're generated on the fly and the don't always immediately appear but it's a start!
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Compare how two people have voted in parliament. It's brand new! From any person page on https://t.co/8BXDHvgoXp click "Compare their voting record with someone else's"