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.
A government apprentice's guide to social media
Recently as a BIS Communications Apprentice I went to a Government Communication Network course on Social Media PR and Media Relations. Here is a summary of what I learned.
MT: Twitter talk
Twitter is like a dinner party. But you’re not the host. By Rebecca Lefort and Ruth Nunn.
Community buying
The government’s consumer empowerment strategy sets out what government and others could do to help increase consumer insight and understanding of markets and, in that way, enable consumers to get better deals for themselves, both individually and collectively.
BIS digital exemplar catch up
The Government Digital Service (GDS) held their latest event for digital exemplar organisations on Wednesday 29 January.
Resolutions aren't just for the new year...
Kung Hei Fat Choi! And welcome to the Year of the Horse. How are getting on with your January New Year’s resolutions?
To Vine or not to Vine?
To be or not be was the famous opening phrase of a soliloquy in the Nunnery scene of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Recently I found myself asking a similar question "To Vine or not to Vine."
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.
Collaboration in the age of digital journalism
Journalists aren’t experts. That’s what members of the BIS press office heard on Monday from some of the Guardian’s journalists and digital strategists at a GCS event on digital and open journalism.
Digital leadership at the Foreign Office
I love this case study from the Foreign Office, because it gets right to the heart of the challenge for digital: making practitioners of our leaders, and encouraging a more open way of working.
What do people want from us?
I’ve already blogged about some of the barriers to digital engagement that we identified during Digital Fortnight.