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The finding and the things

Posted by: Giulia Bazoli, Posted on: 17 October 2016 - Categories: Finding things, User insights, What we're working on

On the GOV.UK Finding Things team we are working on developing a ‘single subject taxonomy’ to improve navigation and search on GOV.UK. We decided to trial this approach with education content.

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What we're working on: 14 October 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 14 October 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 30 September 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …

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#ConCon4: The fourth cross-government content conference

Posted by: Persis Howe, Posted on: 13 October 2016 - Categories: Content, Events

We’re now on our fourth content conference, and we learn each time we run them. For the first time, we had more presenters from outside GDS than inside GDS. That’s important because the content community is far broader than GDS. …

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The GOV.UK content team structure

Posted by: catherinegordy, Posted on: 7 October 2016 - Categories: Content, How we work

It’s been a while since we last blogged about how the GOV.UK content team is structured. Our 2015 post about changes to the content design team explained we created 4 teams in order to develop knowledge in a subject areas and …

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A new way to do campaigns on GOV.UK

Posted by: Charles Davie, Posted on: 5 October 2016 - Categories: Product changes

We’ve been working to improve the way GOV.UK hosts marketing campaigns. I’m writing this blog post to explain how we are improving the current campaigns functionality by introducing a new campaigns platform.

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Advanced content design training at HMRC

Posted by: Christine Cawthorne and Julie White, Posted on: 3 October 2016 - Categories: Content

Christine recently created a new course for HM Revenue and Custom's (HMRC's) content designers. The 2 teams in Newcastle and Manchester are well practised at writing content to user needs but wanted to look at the whole user journey. Julie: …

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What we're working on: 30 September 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 30 September 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 16 September 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …

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Iterating on the GOV.UK content review process

Posted by: Abigail Waraker, Posted on: 28 September 2016 - Categories: Content

Three or so years ago, GOV.UK had just 2 content reviewers checking content changes made by content designers and pressing the publish button.

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GOV.UK content designer exchange

Posted by: Trisha Doyle, Posted on: 21 September 2016 - Categories: Content, Working with us

We want to work better with other content designers across government working on GOV.UK, so we're inviting content designers from across government to come and work with us. We’d also...

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GOV.UK October showcase 2016

Posted by: Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on: 19 September 2016 - Categories: Events, Vision and plans, What we're working on

...Things and our education improvement theme - Holly Garrett, Product Manager Content operating model - our plan and user research findings - Trisha Doyle, Head of Content We’ll make sure...

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