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Digital Assurance – making digital services better 

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Digital Assurance – making digital services better 

Being an Assurance Manager means being at the heart of every digital activity in the department, learn more about the role.

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Starting to think about digital capability

Posted by: sharon, Posted on: 6 April 2013 - Categories: 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.

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Sand, hurricanes and the web

Posted by: Tim Lloyd, Posted on: 2 April 2013 - Categories: Engagement

Colleagues from the Met Office visited BIS to share their experiences of social media and the benefits it brings when handling big news like Hurricane Katia.

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Talking about the business of growing business

Posted by: Tim Lloyd, Posted on: 2 April 2013 - Categories: Engagement
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Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs BIS I don't know about you, but I hate having to work too hard online. I expect to quickly find answers via search, or I browse my preferred social networks or forums for advice.

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Smartphones and skateboarding dogs - why they matter to BIS

Posted by: Julia L, Posted on: 26 March 2013 - Categories: Inspiration
The Google Offices in London.

Recently I was at Google's London HQ in Soho for an event called Digital Citizen 2013 organised by the Government Communications Network (GCN).

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Ginger genes and podcasting

Posted by: Marilyn Booth, Posted on: 22 March 2013 - Categories: Engagement
3 girls with long red hair, participants at Redhead Day 2012.

Today we've just launched the first in our BIS Science and Innovation podcast series - 'From ginger genes to celebrating science marks'.

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Tools to help press offices curate news content

Posted by: Tim Lloyd, Posted on: 9 March 2013 - Categories: Engagement
Screenshot of the Scoop.it! website.

I really like the way my colleagues in the BIS press office are using Scoop.it!* to curate news coverage that relates to their Science, Research and Innovation desk.

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Using plain English for website content

Posted by: James Devenish, Posted on: 22 February 2013 - Categories: Content

The Land Registry has recently started helping their staff adopt plain English in anticipation of their move to GOV.UK.

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UK government digital strategies and guidance on the use of social media

Posted by: James Devenish, Posted on: 18 February 2013 - Categories: Engagement, Strategy

James Devenish has joined the BIS digital team on secondment from the National Measurement Office. Here he gives his reflections on digital strategies and how organisations who have yet to write theirs might get started.

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Twitter is the massive newswire

Posted by: Paul Melhuish, Posted on: 15 February 2013 - Categories: Capability, Engagement

"Twitter, whatever you might think of it, is a massive newswire. Depending on who you’re following."

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BIS and blogging

Posted by: Tim Lloyd, Posted on: 7 January 2013 - Categories: Engagement
Screenshot of the BIS blogs.

A round up of online coverage from websites and social media about the National Careers Service, launched 5 April

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