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Gender and language in blog posts

People in a meeting room

We’ve blogged before about language and gender. We’ve found that removing masculine words and gender coding from job adverts has a huge effect on applications from women. This got us thinking, how gendered is the PDS blog?

Using Google Ventures Methodology for the first time

Image of a #ukparlibeta sign

We recently tried using the Google Ventures design sprint methodology on our committees project for beta.parliament.uk. Rachel Elliott-Potter talks about what we did and what we learned using this new way of working.

3 lessons for @UKParliament from Social Media Week

Social Media Week pass on a laptop

The content team is responsible for managing @UKParliament's presence on social media and recently we went to Social Media Week London. We've blogged about some of the lessons we learned and what new things we want to try.

Developing our skills through 10% time

Laurence from the content team coding during his 10% time

You might have heard of companies which let their employees spend a percentage of their time on creative projects that will benefit them. Emma Allen introduced this in the last organisation she worked for and she's blogged about doing the same for her teams at PDS.

Launching the new search service on parliament.uk

A screenshot of the new search service

Parliament currently offers various search functions and our vision is to offer a unified search experience. Replacing the current search on the website with the new search service is the first big step towards that goal.