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title: Blog - Placecube Limited | Neil Lawrence
description: Neil is a Product Owner in Placecube's Product Team. Prior to joining the team, he worked for over three decades in the public sector at local authorities ranging from parish to unitary councils. He has a background in performance management, project management, improvement and transformation, and led the digital team at Oxford City Council.  While at Oxford he led a national collaborative project with 12 other councils carrying out user research into the use of chatbots to solve customer issues. Neil joined Placecube from Dorset Council where he led the Web Team and managed the migration of their website to Digital Place for Local Public Services.
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# Evolving Digital Place

 By Dr Gavin Beckett

 07/06/2024

[Read Now \>\>](https://blog.placecube.com/blog/evolving-digital-place)

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## [The Good, the Bad and the Hard to Solve](https://blog.placecube.com/blog/building-networked-communities-0-1)

At the last LocalGovCamp of 2023, we ran a workshop to delve into the intricacies of resident...

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 Nov 24, 2023, 4:56:10 PM

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