Some team successes from 2013
As a team, we put a lot of emphasis on sharing what goes wrong just as often as what goes right. But sometimes it's important to look back over a year and see just how far we've come.
Capability
Digital in policy making: where are the challenges?
On 25 February we held the second meeting of the BIS digital in policy group.
Digital in policy making: bringing it all together
At BIS we've been working hard on applying digital to policy making projects, with some success.
What do people want from us?
I’ve already blogged about some of the barriers to digital engagement that we identified during Digital Fortnight.
Looking back and untangling the fear
As we draw towards Christmas, it’s a good time to reflect on what we’ve been up to over the year, and assess how we refresh our embedding digital activity for the new year.
From social to digital: reinventing our surgeries
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.
Using the web to seek, show and tell
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.
Embedding digital communications at BIS
We have made ‘embedding digital’ a new clear objective for the digital communications team this year.
Starting to think about digital capability
BIS published it’s Digital Strategy in December setting out how it will redesign its services around the needs of users in order to be digital-by-default.
Twitter is the massive newswire
"Twitter, whatever you might think of it, is a massive newswire. Depending on who you’re following."