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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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Spotlight on procurement

Posted by: Graham Higgins - former Senior Digital Media Producer, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 20 November 2012 - Categories: GDS team

...Digital Service): It’s a very pro-active activity, procurement, as opposed to just buying, which to me is a one-off activity. Procurement is owning the whole relationship with the supplier as...

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 16 November 2012 - Categories: GDS team

The big news this week has been the transition of two central government departments and three agencies to GOV.UK. Following the release of GOV.UK last month, it’s the next step...

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A quick tour of Inside Government

Posted by: Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 15 November 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK

Today we released Inside Government, bringing together all the corporate and policy information of 2 ministerial departments (out of a total 24) and 3 smaller public bodies (out of the hundreds of agencies and other bodies who will later be …

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Launching Inside Government

Posted by: The Right Honourable The Lord Heywood of Whitehall GCB CVO - former Cabinet Secretary, Cabinet Office, Posted on: 15 November 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK

Policy, publications and announcements are moving to GOV.UK Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary, writes about the release of Inside Government. We said in the Civil Service Reform Plan, published earlier this...

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