WRITTEN ON May 26th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
I’m testing out this widget by Laurence Coburn of Rateitall who was a fellow-speaker at last night’s OpenBusiness Minibar.
Just rate Ideal Gov, and type in your feedback. Rateitall sorts out the rest. Could it be easier? If it seems to work, let’s keep it on the sidebar.
Laurence’s work, and other similar work, seems to accelerate the idea we’ve been plugging for a couple of years that feedback is so easily available on the net that it will surely soon apply to all public services. Should we have this widget on every government web site (or indeed, on DirectGov if that is to be the only government web site)?
4 Responses to “Testing the Rateitall Sexywidget”
Also – how to categorise this blog? I said political but it’s not partisan. It’s not technolgoy or Web 2.0, or personal. Or it’s all of these. Ooh, perhaps there was an option to have more than one…
Interesting idea but as said above, the widget seems to be set for USA (rather than UK) keyboards. Also, it displays my quotation marks as their HTML element code. (")
Needs more work to improve its “accessibility” and to improve the almost invisible text labels at the bottom.
Oh dear, typing that HTML element code has awoken a weird IdealGov smiley.
The RateIt web site seems stuffed with “popularist” opinions from USA.
To achieve credibility in UK, we’d need a UK section. It would also need to separate comments about the latest TV show from comments about eg. eGovernment services.
Hm. Having tested it out myself
– I had problems registering (but maybe my keyboard is getting sticky)
– it needs shift/2 to get @, when UK keyboards have it at shift/’
– is registration necessary?
I suppose so, what with spam etc. When this emerges from beta they’ll need some protection I suppose.