Introducing Digital Fortnight
Today sees the beginning of Digital Fortnight within BIS. And to make things more interesting it’s running from Wednesday to Wednesday. We’re quite fond of the posters that internal comms colleagues...
View ArticleDigital Spend Control – an update
Since I previously blogged about how we intended to add value beyond compliance, we’ve supported a number of BIS agencies and arms length bodies to gain digital spend approval and have been working...
View ArticleWhat do people want from us?
I’ve already blogged about some of the barriers to digital engagement that we identified during Digital Fortnight. But, we also asked attendees what they wanted from us as a digital team to help...
View ArticleResolutions aren’t just for the New Year…
Kung Hei Fat Choi! And welcome to the Year of the Horse. How are getting on with your January New Year’s resolutions? I don’t want to knock the enthusiasm for making resolutions, I just wish that...
View ArticleBIS Digital Exemplar Catch Up
The Government Digital Service (GDS) held their latest event for Digital exemplar organisations on Wednesday 29th January. After a keynote speech from Francis Maude, a succession of ministers and CEOs...
View ArticleBIS Digital Engagement Case Study Series: Community Buying
The Task The Government’s consumer empowerment strategy sets out what government and others could do to help increase consumer insight and understanding of markets and, in that way, enable consumers...
View ArticleCloudy with a chance of space weather
An analysis of a piece of digital outreach activity by Betony Kelly and Rebecca Lefort It’s not every announcement that combines weather (surely every Brit’s favourite topic of conversation?!) with...
View ArticleMaking time for Digital
The BIS Digital and Policy Working Group has had 2 very well attended and successful meetings now and one of the first tasks we gave ourselves was the development and dissemination of some “Top tips”...
View Article“An infographic is not a visual list…”
Notes from a data storytelling mini-conference by Rob Adey from the BIS Internal Communications team. There were some interesting speakers at the Data Storytelling event at the National Audit Office...
View ArticleWhere the policy rubber hits the road
A hot topic at a recent get together of the BIS policy profession was the opportunities and challenges of policy making in a digital world. The opportunities were clear – for example real time...
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