Country report Nordic Webseminar 4.-5.3.2015 Markku Huttunen

Positive developments Blogs of the office magazine Tieto&Trendit have got good coverage in media Several new courses to statistical web school Publishing statistical releases and e-publications has worked well although publishing systems are outdated Several web development projects going on – the importance of web has been recognized in the office New PX-Web version testing with SCB – beta version published Open data – in January basic population data by postcodes 4 March 2015 Markku Huttunen

Positive developments 2 New corporate design published 29th of January Old corporate design since 2002 Design renewal project started in 2013 New logo, web design, printed design, personal id-cards, practically everything Six sub projects: web, front page, printed publications, outside signs + id cards etc. Old design did not work well enough in web The importance of printed publishing decreasing 4 March 2015 Markku Huttunen

Not so positive developments The new CMS of statistics section is not yeat finalized CMS renewal of www.stat.fi non statistics pages has been delayed The financial situation of the office Cuts in budget - layoffs planned Final outcome is not yet known 4 March 2015 Markku Huttunen

Challenges The growing complexity of web services How to master the complex whole? Web development planned to be under one steering group Web coordinators (3 persons) appointed to work between day to day development and projects As part of the new CMS project the responsibilies of the website of 200 000 HTML pages has been checked and defined as part of the project Publishing statistical releases + e-publications is quite heavily de-centralized. Part of the yearly publications are now centrally compiled as a pilot. Social media: always re-changing – active following needed Search engines 4 March 2015 Markku Huttunen