Susy and I ran a GCS comms exchange event the other day about digital approaches to running consultations in the department. You can watch the session below. It's quite long, so you might want to skip to the good bits: 0.00 …
...burning rubber Building an intranet sounded like a really irrelevant thing to do. But 9 months of hard graft proved so many things. First, you need a shop window. We...
..."to allow or even require a different operating model for government." So say two powerhouses of government leadership, Mike Bracken (at GDS) and Paul Maltby (at the Cabinet Office). They're...
If you haven’t heard of her already, there is a remarkable lady called Kate Swaffer. She is, as she puts it in her twitter biography, an advocate for people with dementia, living well with young onset dementia, a speaker, author, …
We've blogged a lot recently about our review of how we run digital consultations. When we kicked off the project, we thought feedback would focus on the functionality of the tools we use. What we actually received was lots of …
...the new intranet than in Delphi. Dave and Kylie talked us through the redesign of the NHS blood donor registration site, showing how our arm’s length bodies are using digital...
Last week, as part of the new Department of Health intranet, we launched the PolicyKit.
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 …
...working alongside Civil Service Learning and DH’s own learning and development team to develop a programme of informal professional development. This won’t look like a traditional course. For instance, we’ve...
I was the only member of my first government digital communications team. I was a Website Manager, and managing a website was the limit of my responsibilities. Digital communication teams have got a bit bigger, and have become responsible for …