Ever wondered what community management involves at the Government Digital Service? My name’s Suhail, and I’m a Community Manager at GDS - I’m going to talk about how we manage our communities day-to-day in this two-part blog series. Understanding our …
GOV.UK Verify is the new way to prove who you are online. Currently in public beta, so far almost 290,000 people have used it to verify their identity. Week on week user numbers increase by their thousands as more services …
Watch Naintara Land, Interim GDS User Research Lead at GDS answer your questions live on Periscope about user research on GOV.UK on Wednesday 8 September 2015.
Last week the GDS creative team hosted a cross-government drop-in session for people who want help with making films. About 40 people showed up over the course of the afternoon - a great turnout for early summer holidays. We’d split …
So, Periscope. The app that allows you to live stream events directly from a mobile device to Twitter. We’ve taken our time here to think about how it can work for us and add value to our followers. We’ve considered speaker …
Last week we blogged about our use of online monitoring tools; how we’ve been working with other government departments to support campaign monitoring and evaluation, and helping them build their own expertise in this area. The last few months have been …
It was National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) yesterday. It’s unlikely that you would have missed it.
I don’t think I’ve ever used a social media monitoring tool that has done exactly what I wanted it to do; and I’ve used a fair few of them.
In our last post ‘Social media planning: it’s time for some perspective’ we discussed the importance of data and research in social media planning.
The pressure on communications professionals has never been so great. The constant emergence of new digital channels has led to a complex world of communications tools to choose from.