Ways of working

Lessons on maintaining staff engagement

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A year on from moving to remote working, GDS’s Internal Communications team reflects on employee engagement challenges and successes.

Doing community management for @GOVUK Twitter during COVID-19

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Recently we've been blogging a lot about how coronavirus has changed operations within government. Here we share how we changed our community management techniques to cope with the huge increase of user queries and what our top tips to other organisations are.

Podcast: On writing

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GDS senior creative writers Angus Montgomery and Sarah Stewart discuss the role of writers in government and how clear writing can help people to do their jobs better. If you’re asked to write a blog post, opinion piece or presentation, here are Angus and Sarah’s 10 tips for clear writing.

The Global Digital Marketplace: multi-supplier delivery and what we’ve learned so far

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...approach it as an experiment to see if we can make multi-supplier delivery work. Our findings so far Here’s what we’ve found so far: 1. It can be done! So...