Confidence as a cultural value
We recently held another of our values days. This time we focused on confidence and the different ways you can have confidence in work. Rachel Christopher and Julie Byrne have blogged about the day itself.
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What does confidence mean to PDS staff?
We recently held a confidence day, which is one of our cultural values in PDS. We've heard from lots of people in PDS about what confidence means to them so here's what some of our staff had to say.
Desktops, devices, and why you can't always get what you want
Sean Brazier blogs about the changes in technology from desktops to devices, what that means for his team and those using the kit they provide.
Showing that we care
We have four cultural values here in PDS: care, community, curiosity, and confidence. We recently held a cultural values day which focused on the care value. Dan Cook and John Box have blogged about why we did it and what it involved.
Straight Outta Conwy
Hugh Griffith has recently joined the content team and he's written about his first few months here and his experience of London so far.
Understanding what our users are searching
Understanding how and what users search on Parliament’s website helps us continually improve the search function. We wanted to understand if there was a difference between parliamentary language and what users are searching. Data analyst, Sara Reis, shares the findings.
Meet (some of) the content team
Parliament had never had a content team before so last year, we introduced the team and explained who we are and what we do. We thought we'd do another update and this time, we've done a video.
Listening to what our users tell us
Since we made beta.parliament.uk publicly available, we’ve been asking users to give us feedback from a banner which is on every page. Gemma Rogers shares some of the feedback we’ve had and what we do with the information.
From the BBC to Parliament: my first few weeks
Stevey Robertson joined PDS a few weeks ago as design lead. He's written about how he's found it and what the highlights have been so far.
How our constituency office is benefitting from Office 365
Myles is a parliamentary assistant and he's written about how technology is helping him and his MP work more efficiently.