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Talk more, queue less: faster updates for GOV.UK

Posted by: Benjamin Mortimer, Posted on: 6 February 2017 - Categories: Best practice, How we work

We’re trying to make it quicker to update content on GOV.UK. We’re doing this by talking to each other more when we write content, which is making our work better and cutting down the time our editing process takes.

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Tagging all the things together

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 3 February 2017 - Categories: Content, Finding things
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The Finding Things team held a tagging day on 9 January 2017 to connect the education-related content to the draft new taxonomy. Publishers look at each of their pages and choose tags like "Early years funding" and "Phonics".

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Quarterly update: what we've done since October, and what we'll do by April

Posted by: Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on: 1 February 2017 - Categories: Vision and plans, What we're working on
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...content operating model Hopefully, you’ll have read blog posts from Trisha Doyle about the work we’ve been doing on the content operating model (if you haven’t, go and read them)....

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What we're working on: 30 January 2017

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 30 January 2017 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 13 January 2017, 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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Discovery into consultations

Posted by: Charles Davie, Posted on: 27 January 2017 - Categories: Content, Vision and plans

One of the aims for the GOV.UK roadmap this year was to understand more about how digital tools could improve consultations. In Q3 of this year we hired The Democratic Society and Snook to carry out a 6 week discovery.

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Making out-of-court options clearer for separating families

Posted by: Steph Wilson, Posted on: 25 January 2017 - Categories: Content

There are great teams building online services all over government - but the success of those services depends on how they work as part of users' whole experience. Things fall down if a government letter or helpline tells users something …

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Transition - it's back!

Posted by: Robert Rockstroh, GOV.UK Policy & Strategy Manager, Government Digital Service (GDS), Posted on: 23 January 2017 - Categories: Transition
The single domain is the basis for how we work as one government in a digital age

...for a while and are out of date. All departments provide quarterly updates on the number of open websites. At the last count there were 269 government websites. But I...

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Fixing content with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Posted by: Si Stephens-Manassiev, Posted on: 18 January 2017 - Categories: Content

...FCO for a kickoff. We explained why the tool is so difficult to update from a technical perspective and our FCO colleagues told us about their own challenges. Usually we...

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Improving our content about getting married abroad

Posted by: Gabrielle Acosta, Posted on: 16 January 2017 - Categories: Content

The 'getting married abroad smart answer' helps British nationals find out if and how they can get married in another country.

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What we're working on: 13 January 2017

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 13 January 2017 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 9 December 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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