Tweet Of The Week: @LSpurdle On Digital Britain

When we gave Lord Carter’s mammoth Digital Britain report a qualified thumb up, we went against the crowd. Much of the online reaction was rather negative – Linda Spurdle, an online hub manager at Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, summed it up…

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