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Building a digital community in health

Posted by: Hong Nguyen, Posted on: 17 June 2016 - Categories: Capability

Forming communities seems like a lot of work. It involves finding the right people, the right topics and the right venue. They need to be self-organising and people need to be engaged. But it’s something we’re keen to do for digital …

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Relaunching the digital champions

Posted by: ktreadwell, Posted on: 14 June 2016 - Categories: Capability, Engagement, Strategy, Uncategorized

The digital champions network in Department of Health has now entered its third year - and it has started with a bang. To relaunch the champions we first took a step back to think about how the network has operated …

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A first week in a dynamic Digital Team

Posted by: ktreadwell, Posted on: 18 March 2016 - Categories: Capability, Insight, Jobs

Arriving at Richmond House on a cold, overcast Monday morning, my expectations for the next 6 months were not sky high. Thankfully, my initial thoughts have been proved spectacularly and superbly, wrong! A bit about me My name is Katie. …

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Guest blog: Content strategy vs status quo

Posted by: Travis Kelly, Posted on: 16 March 2016 - Categories: Content

Travis Kelly, senior content designer at Public Health England (PHE), shares his team's experience of developing their content strategy.

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Pro-active social insight

Posted by: Philippa Peasland, Posted on: 11 March 2016 - Categories: Engagement, Insight, Strategy
Fresh Perspective on social insight

I joined the Civil Service a few months ago and one of the things both my parting and joining managers advised me to do was make the most of a particularly valuable time-limited offer: the fresh perspective. So I took …

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An agile intranet

Posted by: Chris Fleming, Posted on: 22 February 2016 - Categories: Content, Services and products, User research
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We designed our intranet to be continuously improved, and over recent weeks have been doing just that. Since the intranet’s launch last year we have gathered data and done extensive research to deepen our insights into our users’ behaviour. This is enabling …

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How the wall is working

Posted by: Sian Cooke, Posted on: 11 February 2016 - Categories: Strategy

It’s been 3 months since I last blogged about the wall, and I thought I should probably share how it’s all going. The short answer is, really well! Since we launched the wall, each team has held a little meeting …

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Digital highlights of the last year

Posted by: Adam Bye, Posted on: 1 February 2016 - Categories: Capability, Content, Engagement, Policymaking, Services and products, Strategy

In two weeks digital and technology leads from across government will come together at Sprint 16, assessing progress over the last year and setting future priorities. In the run-up, I’ve been thinking about our own progress at the Department of …

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Organising content on the intranet

Posted by: Sian Cooke, Posted on: 17 December 2015 - Categories: Uncategorized

...of time with real people and sticky notes. In this second sprint of the intranet development project, we’ve been doing lots of user research; testing how people currently interact with...

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How to do user research on a shoestring

Posted by: Chris Fleming, Posted on: 26 November 2015 - Categories: Services and products, User research
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User research is the bedrock of digital transformation, and without it we have no hope of developing great products and services. Ideally your team has a dedicated user researcher, you can access laboratory facilities when you want, and you have …

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