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Join DH as an insight and evaluation expert

Posted by: Lewis Wooding, Posted on: 8 March 2017 - Categories: Jobs

We’ve got a digital role going in the communications insight and evaluation team at DH. We are looking for a data savvy expert who can work with a variety of data sources including social media data, web and search analytics …

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Come and join the DH Digital Engagement Team

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 11 August 2015 - Categories: Engagement, Insight, Jobs

We've got a number of roles up for grabs in the Digital Engagement Team in DH. Two are currently live on Civil Service Jobs. They close on 20 August 2015. They are: Digital Engagement Manager (Ref 1463525) – open to …

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Delivering alpha performance reporting dashboards

Posted by: Sarah Wood, Posted on: 6 February 2014 - Categories: Insight

In the Department of Health’s (DH) Digital Strategy published a year ago, we pledged to adopt a digital first approach to all communications activity and evaluation (among other things!). And since then, the question of how we improve the way …

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Sharing our stats from GOV.UK

Posted by: Charlotte Fowles, Posted on: 30 August 2013 - Categories: Insight

...summary to our Permanent Secretary and senior leadership team as well as sharing on our intranet. Senior staff have told us that they find this intelligence useful and we are...

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Do you know your sprout social from your topsy pro? (Job ad)

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 26 June 2013 - Categories: Jobs

THIS VACANCY HAS NOW CLOSED We are looking to recruit a media evaluation officer (social media). The role is to work within the DH digital team, to help us develop the way we monitor and evaluate social media. It’s a …

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@dhmonitoring – what were we thinking?

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

On 9 May, I set up @DHmonitoring (now @DHlistening) and the response to this twitter account has been a really interesting (unintended) insight. We set up the account to follow a list of people talking about health policy and the …

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Evaluating social media use – why is it important?

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 11 June 2013 - Categories: Engagement, Insight

We need to be better at understanding the impact of our work. In the digital team, we’ve decided to focus the team efforts on projects which we can prove have been effective. There are lots of free online tools that …

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So how is GOV.UK being received at DH?

Posted by: Charlotte Fowles, Posted on: 2 November 2012 - Categories: Content, Services and products

After a few months of increasing our communications to DH colleagues about the move to GOV.UK (which we talked about in an earlier blog), we thought we’d share the feedback we’ve been getting. In recent weeks, we have done quite …

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Using Pinterest to share evaluation

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 25 October 2012 - Categories: Engagement, Insight

Since joining DH, I’ve been looking at what new social media channels will be useful to the department. I’ve been keen not to just use something new just for the sake of it. The department already uses channels such as …

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13 measures of success for government digital teams

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 9 December 2010 - Categories: Capability, Content, Engagement, Services and products, Strategy

I mentioned that I wanted the DH digital communication team to aspire to run the most effective digital communication operation in government. It's a nice ambition, but it's pretty meaningless unless we can find ways to rate our performance. We ran a …

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