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Come and join the DH digital team

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 17 February 2017 - Categories: Content, Engagement, Jobs

THESE VACANCIES ARE NOW CLOSED At DH, the digital content and communities team help people understand our policies and make it easy for them to participate in the policy making process. We are looking to fill two roles. They will …

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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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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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Guest blog: crowdsourcing and policy development at Monitor

Posted by: Rachel Purkett, Posted on: 19 February 2014 - Categories: Policymaking

Rachel Purkett, Digital Media Manager at Monitor talks about a recent crowdsourcing campaign that has helped to improve policy development in the organisation. At Monitor we recently concluded our second ever ‘crowdsourcing’ campaign. We used a new online platform to …

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Action! Digital film-making through the lens of the policymaking cycle

Posted by: Daniel O'Byrne, Posted on: 16 August 2013 - Categories: Content

...Deliver film produced a final edit uploaded the film to YouTube and embedded on the beta tool promoted the film on the DH intranet wrote this blog (my first!) will...

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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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5 open policymaking examples

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 25 October 2012 - Categories: Policymaking

I've been enjoying reading all the posts about open policymaking over on the Demsoc blog. We've thought quite a lot about digital engagement at the Department of Health, and how we can use tools and techniques to invite people into …

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