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Finding things audit (2/2): how early years went

Posted by: Ale del Cueto and Dave Hallworth, Posted on: 23 February 2016 - Categories: Finding things, How we work

Education is the first theme of the GDS finding things project, and early years is the first content area. As we’ve now completed our audit of the early years content, and it went pretty smoothly, other departments have been asking …

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Finding things audit (1/2): what, why, how

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 19 February 2016 - Categories: Finding things, How we work

The finding things taxonomy work has completed the first content audit. This involved editors from different organisations reviewing all the content about early years education and childcare provision (eg childminding). Here's how we got on.

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What happens to content from previous governments ('history mode')

Posted by: Alan Maddrell and Ben Welby, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Product changes
Portrait of Robert Walpole (the first British Prime Minister), workshop of Jean-Baptiste van Loo

This is the first election for which the UK has a single government domain. Here's how we're making it clear what was published under previous governments.

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Content clinic 17 March 2015: what we talked about

Posted by: Paula Stephenson and Persis Howe, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Best practice, Events

At the most recent content clinic we tried out a new format - an ‘unconference’. Everyone suggested what they wanted to talk about and then we voted. The most popular topics were: how can reviewers see a preview of HTML …

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GOV.UK now has an 'archiving' policy

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 12 March 2015 - Categories: Working with us

We've published a new policy about when content on GOV.UK should be withdrawn and, more importantly, when it should not.

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The first GOV.UK local meetup: what we did

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 6 March 2015 - Categories: Events

...been done in the week, and what’s coming up next week. Manuals We talked about the new manuals format and showed off this great example from the Department for Education...

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What to check before you publish: a 2i checklist

Posted by: Persis Howe, Posted on: 29 May 2014 - Categories: Best practice

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. I spent last week at the Department for Transport, working with the content designers there. Ahead of this, we came up …

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