A new way to do campaigns on GOV.UK
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.
Product changes
You've got mail
Over 500,000 people subscribe to email notifications for GOV.UK. This amounts to a staggering 1.5 million emails sent per day based on users’ preferences for notifications, triggered by content being updated on the site.
Splitting and renaming Specialist Publisher
Last month we wrote about our work to rebuild Specialist Publisher, the app used for creating manuals and finders on GOV.UK. This post provides an update on progress, and tells you about some changes we're making to split it into …
The Specialist Publisher rebuild: behind the scenes
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Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Product changes, What we're working on
Since mid-2015 we’ve been busy rebuilding Specialist Publisher - the application that powers the Manual and Finder content formats on GOV.UK. This post is an update on where we've got to.
Managing links to local authority websites
We’ve been working to improve how GOV.UK users find services and content provided by local authorities and councils, or our ‘local links mission’ for short. I’m writing this post to explain a bit more about the mission. I also want …
Changes to Feedback Explorer (aka Feedex)
Feedex is a an application that collects user (public) feedback on GOV.UK services and pages. Feedex records comments that the user has left, and for service pages it also records a rating (1 to 5). Feedex is useful As the …
Migration update: June 2016
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Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Product changes, Vision and plans
In April, I posted my last update on the programme of work to rebuild GOV.UK’s Publishing Platform. Here’s an update on what we’ve been doing since then. The Publishing Platform architecture Recently we’ve been focused on iterating the roadmap for …
Improving the postcode matching on GOV.UK
We’ve just finished improving the application we use on GOV.UK for postcode matching. It’s used to give a result for ‘local transactions’ and ‘find my nearest’ formats. Local transactions help users find services and content that are provided by their …
Making it easier to tag content
The 3 existing ways of tagging things mainstream browse categories, policy areas, topics and subtopics means that tagging is complex and publishers aren’t clear what effect tagging has and where the document will appear. We want to separate the process …
Rebuilding GOV.UK’s publishing platform - an update
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Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Product changes, Vision and plans
For some time now we’ve been working on rebuilding GOV.UK’s publishing platform. This post updates on what we’ve done so far, what’s left to do, and goes into more detail about the why - explaining the benefits of this work, …
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