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📢 A message from OpenAustralia Foundation CEO, Ben Fairless—the former volunteer administrator of Right to Know:
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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 social.oaf.org.au/@oaf. Hope you can keep up with us there.
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.
oaf.org.au/2023/06/08/journe…
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
oaf.org.au/2023/05/31/journe…
#planningalerts #servicedesign #research
We currently use donorbox.org/ 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 civicrm.org/ before.
Is it still the best thing for us to use this year? Suggestions please!
For the last few months our focus has been on improving planningalerts.org.au/. 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.
A short 🧵
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:
oaf.org.au/2023/05/26/journe…
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 social.oaf.org.au/@oaf. 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" oaf.org.au/2023/05/26/journe…
It would be dreamy to be able to do more of this. We will if we can.
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 oaf.org.au/2022/12/07/what-a…
Hopefully people will try it out lots in the next few days and see how it works for them
We've just added automatic social cards to the people comparison page on theyvoteforyou.org.au
It's a little flaky because they're generated on the fly and the don't always immediately appear but it's a start!
theyvoteforyou.org.au/people…