Working with Press Office
We wanted to enhance social media monitoring, especially Twitter, in the BIS press office, and show that it could be an everyday part of the job without resulting in extra work.
We wanted to enhance social media monitoring, especially Twitter, in the BIS press office, and show that it could be an everyday part of the job without resulting in extra work.
There is growing interest in digital capability across government as departments look to implement their digital strategies.
Inside Government is now home to 24 ministerial departments and 32 other departments and public bodies. A huge amount of work has gone into this transition, but there's even more still to do.
We had some success with our social media surgeries last year - including the consumer rights project that featured in one of our digital engagement case studies.
Aspiring journalist Sid Chaffer joined the BIS digital team for some work experience this week. She gave us a hand helping policy makers to embrace the web, and sums up her thoughts here on the importance of the web.
We have some pretty big objectives around embedding digital in Communications and BIS. I'd like to think we're setting some aspirational goals.