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GOV.UK turned one today

Posted by: James Thornett, Posted on: 17 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

It's been a busy week at GDS, but this afternoon we took a few minutes out to celebrate the first birthday of GOV.UK. I wrote a bit this morning on the Inside GOV.UK blog about what the year has meant …

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This week at GDS

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 15 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation

...looking at how we can manage project governance better with Agile and standard projects, which sounds a thrilling topic. Interviewer: That’s terrific. Until next time. Mike: Thank you very much....

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 8 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...they’re keeping their own website. They’ve done a whole revamp, and launched their new site, as well, last week. You can find that at nationalarchives.gov.uk. So, well done to them....

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Welcoming even more people to GOV.UK

Posted by: James Thornett, Posted on: 3 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

The transition team are the people responsible for helping hundreds more agencies and organisations move their websites onto GOV.UK. They’ve started blogging about that work, and I wanted to explain a bit more about what that work means for GDS.

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Introducing GOV.UK blogs

Posted by: Graham Francis, Posted on: 4 September 2013 - Categories: GDS team

Blogging makes it easier for government to talk about its work, share information and ideas, and connect with those with a common concern. A few months ago, we launched the new GOV.UK blogging platform - which is designed to help …

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How the new GOV.UK homepage is performing

Posted by: Peter Jordan, Posted on: 13 August 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

We introduced a new version of the GOV.UK homepage a few weeks ago, and since then we’ve collected lots of data about what’s working and what improvements we can make. We thought we’d share some of the headlines here. You …

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How we've been improving site search on GOV.UK

Posted by: Roo Reynolds, Posted on: 11 June 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

In the past few weeks, a small team in the Government Digital Service has been working to make significant improvements to site search on GOV.UK. When GOV.UK came out of beta in October 2012, replacing the Directgov and Business Link …

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The story of GOV.UK so far, in pictures

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 1 May 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

Earlier this week the the final ministerial department joined GOV.UK. This isn't the end of the GOV.UK story; in fact it's barely the end of the beginning. But today is still a big moment, the result of commitment and collaboration …

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Constant revision: a student's take on GDS

Posted by: Andrew Langhorn, Posted on: 4 February 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy, GDS team

...other publications form the basis of e-government theories and initiatives. After a few days of research, I found Martha Lane Fox’s somewhat legendary report on Directgov. I was excited to...

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 14 December 2012 - Categories: GDS team

...to the child maintenance calculator and been talking to the content and analytics teams about making some improvements to page slugs. All of that took place after a bit a...

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