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Guest post: Defining digital skills for government communicators
Guest post by Tony Plant, professional development manager at the Ministry of Justice, who has been leading work across Whitehall to update the digital skills profile for government communicators. Cross-posted on Tony’s own blog at The Learning Crowd. Government communications is radically changing, as shown by the COI review and shift to digital channels. Job roles [...]
Experiments in shared website services
Two more sites just began sharing the BIS web platform – the National Measurement Office and the newly christened UK Space Agency – bringing our tally of live sites on the platform up to eight, and moving us one step closer to a single domain for BIS. With eight sites now sharing our platform and [...]
BIS digital team launches blog for Simon Hughes on WordPress.com
Today, we pressed the publish button on a new blog to support Simon Hughes’s engagement with young people and others in his role as Advocate for Access to Education. It’s an independent, advisory role spanning DfE and BIS policy – hence the independent.gov.uk domain and HMG branding. More about the role from the site’s About page: [...]
Bis.gov.uk is Sitecore Site of the Year
I’m used to coming second. At school, I was deputy head boy. In my career, I’ve been second in command more often than I’ve been in charge. And recently, my team was nominated for an internal award for innovation – and were first runners up. But I can’t remember the last time I actually won something. So I’m [...]
Sharing the digital knowhow
This is just a short post, mainly to point you over here to Ross Ferguson’s generous review of a little something my team launched recently on the QT. It’s a side-project we’re calling digital@bis – a place to share tips, policies and best practice with other web professionals (mainly those in BIS’s arms length organisations), [...]
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
