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How to take part in online conversations

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 19 February 2014 - Categories: Engagement

We've refreshed the policy and advice that we provide for staff on taking part in online conversations. The focus of this policy is use of social media by policy officials as part of the policy making process. The department has …

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Guest blog: crowdsourcing and policy development at Monitor

Posted by: Rachel Purkett, Posted on: 19 February 2014 - Categories: Policymaking

Rachel Purkett, Digital Media Manager at Monitor talks about a recent crowdsourcing campaign that has helped to improve policy development in the organisation. At Monitor we recently concluded our second ever ‘crowdsourcing’ campaign. We used a new online platform to …

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Approaching the summit

Posted by: Dave Briggs, Posted on: 11 February 2014 - Categories: Capability

...that throwing traditional training at large numbers of people won't do it. Fine, it allows for a box to be ticked, but little actual learning takes place. Instead, the approach...

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Job: Channel Strategy Manager

Posted by: Rob Rockstroh, Posted on: 7 February 2014 - Categories: Jobs

This vacancy has now closed

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Delivering alpha performance reporting dashboards

Posted by: Sarah Wood, Posted on: 6 February 2014 - Categories: Insight

In the Department of Health’s (DH) Digital Strategy published a year ago, we pledged to adopt a digital first approach to all communications activity and evaluation (among other things!). And since then, the question of how we improve the way …

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Splat the rat - our never ending web rationalisation

Posted by: Rob Rockstroh, Posted on: 3 February 2014 - Categories: Services and products

At SPRINT 14 last week Francis Maude referenced the “splat the rat” game we’re playing with government websites. You shut one and another one appears. At DH we haven’t created any new websites for a long time, but it has …

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