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The future of digital engagement at DH

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 15 November 2016 - Categories: Engagement, Insight, Policymaking

I’ve been thinking about the future of the Digital Engagement Team at DH. If you’ve been reading any of Stephen’s blogs, you’ll have read about some of the changes happening here at DH. The department is getting smaller, and we are …

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How to improve your digital consultation

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 18 November 2015 - Categories: Engagement, Policymaking

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 …

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Thank you for responding

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 10 February 2015 - Categories: Capability, Engagement, Insight, Policymaking

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 …

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Top tips: Preventing multiple/spam entries to Citizenspace consultations

Posted by: Sarah Wood, Posted on: 9 December 2014 - Categories: Engagement, Services and products
Computer covered in sticky notes

We’ve decided to start a series of irregular blog posts called Top tips.

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Digital consultations in the DH

Posted by: Kylie Mulholland, Posted on: 8 December 2014 - Categories: Engagement, Strategy

What would encourage you to respond to a digital consultation?

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Opportunities to join the DH Digital Engagement Team

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 13 May 2014 - Categories: Engagement, Jobs

THIS VACANCY HAS NOW CLOSED

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Getting the most out of Citizen Space

Posted by: Sarah Wood, Posted on: 24 March 2014 - Categories: Engagement, Services and products

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 …

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Are twitter chats really effective?

Posted by: clairerhodes, Posted on: 3 October 2013 - Categories: Engagement

When you’re limited to 140 characters, can a twitter chat truly be an effective policy engagement tool? Based on my recent experience of a twitter chat with @wenurses, as part of our engagement around the proposed Vulnerable Older People’s Plan, …

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