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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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Improving content with anonymous feedback

Posted by: Jake Benilov and Persis Howe, Posted on: 29 June 2015 - Categories: Product changes, User insights

At the bottom of most pages on GOV.UK, we ask ‘Is there anything wrong with this page?’. We collect the responses anonymously, in our Feedback explorer tool, sometimes called Feedex. These responses help content designers and publishers fix what’s wrong …

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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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Rethinking the GOV.UK policy format: what our users told us

Posted by: Ben Welby, Posted on: 2 March 2015 - Categories: How we work, User insights

We're changing the policy format to better meet users' needs and get people to what they need faster.

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Linking to external publications: now clearer and more flexible

Posted by: Daniel Roseman, Posted on: 30 October 2014 - Categories: Product changes

We’ve made it easier to link to publications hosted outside GOV.UK in a way which is clear and useful for users. When you use the publication format you have 3 options: upload a file create an HTML attachment indicate the publication is …

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Content clinic 18 September: what we talked about

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 26 September 2014 - Categories: Best practice, Events

This clinic was a little different from previous ones. There was a lot to show so there were more presentations than usual. Visualising publications data Ashraf Chohan showed visualisations of data about how many publication content items are published and …

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Web editors: next content clinic, Thursday 18 September

Posted by: Persis Howe, Posted on: 15 September 2014 - Categories: Best practice, Events

The next content clinic will be on Thursday 18 September, from 11:30am to 1:00pm, at the Department for Transport. We can’t head to the pub afterwards, but do bring a lunch. To book a place using Eventbrite, you’ll need the …

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