PINs Engagement and Training

Councils

April 2015 saw the total number of councils using the portal rise to 29 with Argyll & Bute Council being the latest to adopt and implement tellmescotland. The council led this piece of work internally using the training material available on the PINs Khub group. The Argyll & Bute team also carried out their own internal PINs training on how to upload notices to the portal and went live on 23 April 2015. Argyll & Bute Council is now assessing requirements for implementing the portal for other types of notices. This is a great achievement for all those involved in the project.

The PINs team recently visited North Lanarkshire Council’s Licensing team who started to upload notices just one week after receiving training. Renfrewshire Council organised a training session for uploading licensing notices to the portal which took place on May 20th at the Council’s offices. Renfrewshire Council has since started to upload General notices to the portal as well. If you and your team require additional training, please contact the PINs Project Team to arrange a training session.

Other Organisations on tellmescotland

Since the last PINs update, there are now 21 Wider Scottish Public Sector Organisations live on tellmescotland. The latest Wider Scottish Public Sector Organisation to go live on the portal is PAS (for planning advice). Its planning advice service is Scottish Government funded and aims to help people understand and engage with the planning system. 

PINs Steering Group Meeting

The latest PINs Steering Group meeting took place last week on Thursday May 7th at Glasgow City Council’s City Chambers with colleagues from across the country attending.

mygov.scot

At the PINs Steering Group Meeting Tom McHugh provided an update on the progress of mygov.scot on behalf of Lesley Allen, Stakeholder Manager, Scottish Government. A 100 day drive for the mygov.scot programme was established, and the team are now into day 80 of the current 100 day drive with plans afoot to the next 100 days; this work included content design, content development as well as technical development. Anyone wishing more information please visit inside.mygov.scot or twitter @mygovscot where the programme team regularly blog exciting updates. The next PINs Steering Group meeting will take place in late August 2015. More details to follow…

PINS Social Media Pilot

The full report on the PINs Social Media Pilot is now available on the KHUB. We would like to extend the invitation to other councils to participate in this Pilot, so if your council wishes to be engaged, please contact the PINs Project Team.

Search Engine Optimisation

The latest SEO Report for tellmescotland revealed that from 1 October 2014 to 31 March 2015 172,096 pages were viewed. The 12 month year-on-year figures show a 35 % increase in Visits (from 58,488 to 89,420) and a 52.24% increase in Unique Visitors (from 42,117 to 64,120). Pageviews were up by 22 % (from 288,802 to 353,528) and 67% of the visitors are New Visitors. Mobile traffic continues to grow with mobile device usage sitting at 45%.

Social Media Traffic

Overall social media provided 3.62% of all traffic with Facebook accounting for 70% (1,120 visits) of Social media traffic and Twitter providing 27% (432).