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Making social media accessible

Posted by: Marged Cother and Joanna Goodwin, Posted on: 20 May 2016 - Categories: accessibility, Case studies, Social Media
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Hi, I’m Marged Cother and I’m Head of Social Media and Digital Engagement here at GDS. Joining me is my partner in crime on this topic, Jo Goodwin, the Head of Social Media at the Office for National Statistics. In …

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Periscope about service design in government

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 14 April 2016 - Categories: Periscope, Thoughts
Portrait image of Louise Downe, Head of Design at GDS

Have you heard of service design? Why do we need it? How do we design services in government? Louise Downe, Head of Design at GDS answered your questions live on Periscope. Transcript Giles: Welcome to another GDS Periscope. You’re looking …

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Part 2: Insight into managing online communities

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 4 March 2016 - Categories: Analytics, Communications, Social Media, Strategy
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...to our content - with simple icons, standard colour palette and font supported by a full, visible URL (we do not use shorteners like bit.ly or owl.ly) and clear call...

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Part 1: Insight into managing online communities

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 27 January 2016 - Categories: Communications, Guidance, Social Media, Thoughts, Tools, Twitter
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...to our colleagues at Home Office. They were brilliant. They did the hard work to resolve the problem swiftly. We ensured the response supplied by Home Office was appropriate for...

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Content as Units of Delivery

Posted by: Georgina Goode, Posted on: 9 November 2015 - Categories: Guidance, Images, Social Media, Strategy, Thoughts, Twitter

Many of you will already be familiar with GDS’s guiding principles; to deliver digital services, designed to be simpler, clearer, faster; that put user needs first. When you put user needs first, the channel for digital engagement is the service …

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Live Q&A about Content Design

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 29 October 2015 - Categories: Periscope, Social Media, Twitter, Video
Portrait of Trisha Doyle, Head of Content at Government Digital Service

...analytics, so we look where users are dropping off online and we figure out: “Okay, so they’re exiting on that page. Why are they exiting on that page? Is that...

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Periscope about user research for GOV.UK

Posted by: GDS team, Posted on: 3 September 2015 - Categories: Events, Periscope, Social Media, Tools, Video
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...favourite things that you’ve seen in there or something that’s hit home while you were in there. Tara Land: Okay. I think it’s probably important to say that we’ve got...

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Why we blog at GDS

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 21 August 2015 - Categories: Blogs, Guidance, Social Media, Strategy, Thoughts
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...the front page. Individual team blogs represent the pull-out sections. While almost everyone who wants to read the paper will look at the front page for the big, top-line stories,...

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Periscope: what we learnt from an initial pilot

Posted by: Georgina Goode, Posted on: 6 July 2015 - Categories: Periscope, Social Media, Thoughts, Tools, Twitter, Video
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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 …

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Social media: failing to plan is planning to fail

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 10 June 2015 - Categories: Social Media

...are tons of examples of content planner templates available to download. For example, you can download 14 free content calendars through Crazy Egg or see these eight free templates on...

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