Posts Tagged ‘ Government ’

Colchester top city to complete 2011 Census online

Tweet As the Government took stock of the national financial health in last week’s Budget, it was interesting to see how people reacted to the first ever UK Census that was available to complete online. The official date for completing the 2011 Census was yesterday on 27 March 2011. Perhaps unsurprisingly this also corresponded with [...][ READ MORE ]

How the Budget could affect new business start ups

Tweet Tomorrow Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his first March Budget to outline the government’s spending plans for the next financial year. A lot of the focus of the Budget is likely to be around fuel duty and interest rates, but Prime Minister David Cameron has also promised that the Budget will: “tear down the [...][ READ MORE ]

Egypt protests swamp holiday search terms

Tweet The recent political unrest in Egypt has had a dramatic effect on search term behaviour online and could cause a severe backlash to the Egyptian tourism industry. Protests in Cairo against president Hosni Mubarak and warnings from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to avoid all unnecessary travel to Egypt’s capital have deterred travellers from [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Online: the year in review

Tweet I can scarcely believe that a whole year has passed since I was sitting here writing the 2009 review, but 12 months to the day here we are, and it’s been another fascinating year in the digital world. Once again I have cherry picked the best blog posts from the year which have either [...][ READ MORE ]

Wikileaks revealed as 13th biggest search term online

Tweet Apart from the weather in the UK, the major story capturing headlines over the last few days has been the sensational reveals from Wikileaks. Major caches of US intelligence from the embassy cables were leaked from the website, creating a furore of media attention. Visits to the Wikileaks website tripled on Monday as the [...][ READ MORE ]

Ed Miliband wins online majority as well as Labour leadership

Tweet With the Labour leadership decided last weekend it’s interesting to see how the popular opinion of the public through online Internet searches was reflected in the eventual triumph of Ed Miliband. Much was made in the media of the sibling rivalry between Ed and his brother David, but searches over the last four weeks [...][ READ MORE ]

London Tube strikes cause surge in traffic to TfL website

Tweet With travel in the capital thrown into chaos over the last couple of days due to the 24-hour tube strikes, London commuters have been frantically checking online for regular service updates from Transport for London (TfL). Two separate strikes began on Monday at 5pm and 9pm as members of the Rail Maritime and Transport [...][ READ MORE ]

Cameron’s Big Society prompts big traffic spike

Tweet Last week the Prime Minister set out his vision for the “big society”, the flagship social policy of the Conservative-LibDem coalition government. The initiative aims to take the emphasis of responsibility away from the government and instead empower people to run local services such as schools, post offices and transport networks. The idea of [...][ READ MORE ]

Budget 2010: the online response

Tweet As expected, yesterday’s budget, presented by the Chancellor, George Osborne, gained a huge amount of press coverage. Given the wide range of changes introduced, it is not a surprise to see that many people went online to research both the key points and finer details. Yesterday (22/06/10) 1 in every 179 UK searches was [...][ READ MORE ]

Snow causes traffic to Weather and Transport websites to reach all time high

Tweet UK Internet visits to both Transport and Weather websites reached an all time high last week as British people flocked online to keep up to date with the latest snow developments. For the week ending January 9th 2010, Weather websites accounted for 1.5% of all UK Internet visits, three times more than the same [...][ READ MORE ]