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This week at GDS

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 30 November 2012 - Categories: GDS team

...Assisted Digital Strategy, on the Digital By Default Standard on trailblazer transactions and the IDA team are doing user research on some wireframes. And we’re digging into the planning for...

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Watching Inside Government evolve

Posted by: John Turnbull, Posted on: 29 November 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK

...a similar service, which it will be rolling out across government. I need to ensure a smooth transfer of as many of our subscribers as possible to the new service,...

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Traffic trends to GOV.UK

Posted by: Peter Jordan, Posted on: 28 November 2012 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK

We’ve been monitoring the volume of traffic to GOV.UK since launch. We want to ensure that the people who used to rely on Directgov and Business Link can still find the reliable and authoritative information and services they need. As the GOV.UK dashboard …

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People management in an agile setting

Posted by: meriwilliams1, Posted on: 27 November 2012 - Categories: GDS team

After speaking at AgileTeaCamp, I thought I would share how people management has evolved in the GDS Delivery Team. What you get for free with agile Agile product teams are self-managing. With the users' needs in mind, the product manager defines what …

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Rewriting policy plainly

Posted by: Paola Wright, Posted on: 27 November 2012 - Categories: Content design, GOV.UK

...finished products - they were the first of many iterations. We've had to learn to approach projects in a more agile way. It hasn't always been easy, but it has...

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Changes to the strategy

Posted by: Jack Franklin, Posted on: 26 November 2012 - Categories: Digital strategy, GDS team, Transformation

A few weeks ago I wrote a post detailing the technical side of the Government Digital Strategy. One of the things I spoke about was how we were keen to...

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 23 November 2012 - Categories: GDS team

...full release of GOV.UK, and there’s been a lot of detailed work done to analyse visitor trends. Lana wrote a bit about our SEO performance yesterday, but there’s also been...

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Making tools for makers

Posted by: Nick Stenning, Posted on: 23 November 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK

Imagine that you are a violin maker, and you have only a chisel and a hacksaw. With such inappropriate tools, you're going to either a) make a really shoddy violin, b) spend an age trying to get the tools to …

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SEO performance on launch: comparing GOV.UK with Directgov

Posted by: Lana Gibson, Posted on: 22 November 2012 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

The search engine optimisation landscape is changing. As I have blogged previously, we are doing our best to make sure we use the same search terms as our users to make content easier to find. Now that Directgov and Business Link are …

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Social media - Must we measure?

Posted by: Emer Coleman - former Deputy Director of Digital Engagement, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 21 November 2012 - Categories: Digital engagement

...the benefits of social media. Metrics and measurement are a particularly thorny issue, as colleagues are asked to make business cases for the use of social media. Measurement and perception...

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