Digital Assurance – making digital services better
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.
Introducing myself, via digital wizardry…
Starting a new job is always a troubling prospect. Especially when faced with doing that new job in a different city, let alone with a new team, new routine, new work area...
Tips for Twitter users
If you've been tweeting for a while you may find these tips helpful.
Working at BIS and using Twitter
If you're a member of staff (on a contract or otherwise) at BIS, then you're subject to the Civil Service Code. There's some useful information here about how the code applies to use of social media.
The uncomfortable truth about email
Although email is now an intrinsic part of the modern workplace, many people cite managing their inbox as a major problem preventing them from getting on with their job.
Where the policy rubber hits the road
A hot topic at a recent get together of the BIS policy profession was the opportunities and challenges of policy making in a digital world.
Digital: the power in your hands?
I've blogged before about some of the perceived barriers to doing digital: the elements that make up the fear.
Purpose, audience, action
We've been offering digital lunch sessions for the past 12 months or so. They're very informal and usually involve someone in the team tapping up an interesting colleague or contact outside of government, to come and inspire us.
I get by with a lil help...
Last week, with a pressing piece to camera appointment, in which the dulcet tones and vision of our subject needed to be captured looming in the diary, I felt that this event leant itself to an impromptu training session and …
Digital team objectives for 2014 and beyond
It's that time of the year, and we've been busy getting feedback from team members, other colleagues in BIS and across government, and evaluating the projects we have delivered in the past 12 months.
Be brave, think creatively and listen
Last week Denise Shaw, Communications Manager for the Growth Vouchers programme, spent some time with the digital team to develop her skills.