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Testing a new GOV.UK publishing application: Content Block Manager

A content block for Basic State Pension in Content Block Manager, showing the locations it is used across GOV.UK, instances it is used across locations, views in the last 30 days and organisations using the block, as well as title, description and lead organisation

Testing a new GOV.UK publishing application: Content Block Manager

We’ve built an application that allows GOV.UK publishers to create and reuse modular content. Find out how it works, what we’ve learned from testing and what’s next.

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How tagging has changed for publishers

Posted by: Si Stephens-Manassiev, Posted on: 14 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Finding things, Product changes
A section of the GOV.UK taxonomy tree showing 3 themes at level 1: 'International'. 'Health and social care' and 'Regional and local government'

We've been working on creating a single sitewide taxonomy for GOV.UK. Find out how what this means for people across government who publish content to GOV.UK.

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Incident roundup - March to May 2018

Posted by: GOV.UK support team, Posted on: 2 November 2018 - Categories: Incident reports
GOV.UK Incident Report

We're committed to blogging about every severity 1 or severity 2 incident on GOV.UK. Here's a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between March and May 2018.

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Using topic pages to organise content on GOV.UK

Posted by: Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, Posted on: 1 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Finding things, Product changes
A screen shot of the 'Education, training and skills' topic page

Users can struggle to find what they need when they navigate through GOV.UK. Topic pages will help them find what they're looking for more easily.

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Introducing a simpler, data-informed publishing experience

Posted by: Robert Rockstroh, GOV.UK Policy & Strategy Manager, Government Digital Service (GDS), Posted on: 23 October 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
Members from the publishing workflow and data teams discussing sketches for the new interface.

...A prototype of the features of the new markdown editor Accessing content data Our content data tool will provide publishers and organisations across government with the data they need to...

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How we're improving publishing times

Posted by: Steve Messer - Product Manager, GOV.UK and Deborah Chua, Posted on: 10 September 2018 - Categories: Product changes, Vision and plans
Steve looking at the publishing pipeline on a whiteboard

For the past few weeks, we've been working on making improvements to the GOV.UK publishing pipeline. Here's what we've done so far and what's coming next.

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Changes to organisation pages for both publishers and users

Posted by: Ganesh Senthi, Senior Product Manager, GOV.UK Data Labs, Posted on: 14 June 2018 - Categories: Product changes, Vision and plans
Organisation management process

Over the coming months, we are working to improve sections of GOV.UK that relate to government departments and agencies (what we define as ‘organisations’).

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Running a content improvement project

Posted by: Polly Green - Senior Content Designer, GOV.UK, Posted on: 6 June 2018 - Categories: Content, Working with us
Trello board for planning improvement work

In the first 2 quarters of 2017 to 2018, some of GOV.UK’s content designers led improvement projects with government departments on specific content areas. The goal was to improve our understanding of user needs and iterate content to meet those …

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Firebreaks on GOV.UK

Posted by: Alan Wright and catherinegordy, Posted on: 3 May 2018 - Categories: GDS team, How we work, What we're working on
GOV.UK team looking at project work

Firebreaks on GOV.UK are similar to Google’s 20% time or Spotify’s hack week. For 1 week every 3 months, teams disband and everyone is given a chance to have some self-directed time to improve GOV.UK. We’ve had 3 firebreaks now: …

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Incident roundup - part 3

Posted by: Hong Nguyen, Posted on: 26 April 2018 - Categories: Incident reports

This post is a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between August 2017 and February 2018.

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What we learnt from creating API documentation

Posted by: Emma Beynon and patrickopoosun, Posted on: 4 April 2018 - Categories: Product changes

One of the objectives of our Q2 mission was to create documentation for the GOV.UK content application programming interface (API). This is a public API that allows machines to access and republish GOV.UK content. Before we started the project The …

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