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Join the DH digital communities and channels team

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 15 June 2017 - Categories: Content, Engagement, Jobs, Policymaking

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 play a key part in …

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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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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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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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A wonky gene and the web: triennial update

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 12 November 2013 - Categories: Engagement

When I talk to people about how they might approach writing an official blog, I always say they should make sure they're prepared to give enough of themself to make it interesting. People tend to read blogs because they are …

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How do you use social media in a crisis?

Posted by: Liz Niman, Posted on: 27 September 2013 - Categories: Engagement

Here at the Department of Health, we always need to be ready in case of a health emergency. For example, last year we published our strategy for how we would communicate if there is another flu pandemic. As a part …

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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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