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What we’re doing with our e-newsletters
About a year ago, Alice Ainsworth and I gave a presentation at Mail camp 2013 about our plans to update the Department of Health (DH) e-newsletter offering. This blog provides an update on how we’re getting on.
Should this be our problem?
'User first' is the mantra used within GDS and across government departments' digital projects. However sometimes, even if there is an identifiable user need it is not necessarily right that we – the government – are the ones to address …
3 jobs in the DH digital team
We've just advertised 3 jobs in the DH digital team. They are: Head of content (grade: 7, closing date: 12 May) update 15 October 2014: THIS VACANCY HAS NOW CLOSED Digital communications evaluation manager (grade: Senior Information Officer, closing date: …
Articulating your proposition – or - what is your problem?
The importance of an elevator pitch was drummed into me very early on in my career (I started off in advertising). This was because the ability to succinctly describe a client’s problem and our proposed solution significantly improved the chance …
Digital Champions – building capability across the department
The first ever digital champions summit took place on 11 February 2014. Here's what happened.
First impressions from a Product Manager
As it’s now one month since I was welcomed into the Department of Health digital team, this seems a good time to share some thoughts and learnings so far. I was recruited as a Product Manager, a new role within …
But what if it's consistent with the proposition, but the platform doesn't do it (yet)?
I presented some of the findings of our work on the G8 dementia summit to the Digital Leaders the other week. The story I had to tell was about sustained open policy engagement over many months, using a range of …
Getting the most out of Citizen Space
We recently ran a survey of our internal DH Citizen Space users. Citizen Space is the digital tool that DH and a number of other local and central Government Departments use to run their consultations. Overall, our survey results were …
Opening up the G8 dementia summit – evaluating our digital coverage
One of the best bits of working on the digital team at the Department of Health is the chance to do new things. I don’t mean just trying out the latest technology for the sake of it – it’s about …