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 …
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.
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 …
We've published a new policy about when content on GOV.UK should be withdrawn and, more importantly, when it should not.
...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...
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 …
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 …
On 30 July we held our first content clinic outside London, at the Environment Agency in Bristol. We had over 20 GOV.UK publishers from a number of agencies based in the south-west of England. Here are the answers to some of …
We're running an extra content clinic at the Environment Agency in Bristol this month, as well as our usual London clinic at the Department for Transport. It's open to anyone creating content on GOV.UK in the area. London, 23 July 3pm …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. GDS runs a content clinic once a month, to give editors and writers from departments and agencies a chance to ask …