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Join the DH digital engagement team

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 5 September 2016 - Categories: Engagement, Insight, Jobs, Policymaking

We’re  looking for a Digital Engagement Manager to join the DH digital team. If you want to find out what makes people take action, learn about online behaviours and deliver best in class digital communications services, this could be the …

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Bringing sexy back (to email)

Posted by: Philippa Peasland, Posted on: 18 August 2016 - Categories: Content, Engagement, Insight, Strategy
Email image

Email doesn’t seem to be many people’s priority these days. And I understand why, it can feel like an outdated channel of communication compared with the all-singing, all-dancing opportunities of snapchat or Facebook chatbots.

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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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Ebola: the ongoing digital engagement challenge

Posted by: Lucy Denton, Posted on: 26 March 2015 - Categories: Engagement

...the nurses and assisted us in learning how best to tailor our comms. We didn’t rely on Twitter alone – you’re never going to reach all your audiences through only...

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What does the DH digital strategy mean for policymaking?

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 11 June 2013 - Categories: Policymaking, Strategy

The Department of Health’s digital strategy was published in December 2012. The strategy describes how staff will develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to make use of digital techniques to help develop better policy. The strategy commits the department to …

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The end of pat-on-the-head digital engagement

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 10 May 2013 - Categories: Engagement

I wonder if others winced as I did at the "pat-on-the-head" phrase Steph used in his blog about government digital engagement the other day. I winced because it rang true. Too much of what I've been responsible for doing over the …

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Digital content: why and how we publish it

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 22 March 2013 - Categories: Content, Services and products

Digital content is integral to our communication and policy engagement work. The department's digital strategy sets out how the the department will use digital tools and techniques to improve its policymaking process and communicate with its external audiences. Digital tools …

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How do you solve a problem like replacing @timolloyd?

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 16 February 2012 - Categories: Jobs

Tim Lloyd leaves the digital team at the Department of Health this week to become head of digital for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. It's great for BIS, and a ruddy shame for us. When he told me he'd …

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