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Win together, lose together

We’ve had a series of engagement meetings about who is going to control information in a new web estate and how we manage that. It involved a lot of notetaking, scribbling and imagining. It was enlightening and, fingers crossed, it’s

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Lights, camera, action bias!

Sometimes (but not often) people ask me: What’s the difference between a digital team and a communications or marketing team? (Sometimes people also confuse digital teams with IT, but let’s not open that box right now…) It’s true that both

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Why we’re building an audience insights database

A key part of managing content and getting people to find it is understanding your audience. This is the basis of our approach to content creation within Digital and Creative Media. But not everyone in a large organisation thinks about

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Spreading the word on digital accessibility

In May, we ran a Learning at Work Week event at Sussex to talk about the importance of digital accessibility. Amie Morrell, who’s currently QA and Accessibility Manager within Digital and Creative Media, led the session, pulling together the accessibility

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Building a business case

It’s been a while since we last posted on this blog. (Just shows the work involved in content creation, I guess…) Since our last post, the project previously mentioned has been given a snappy name: the New Web Estate project.

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Hello, (brave new) world

We’re reviving the DCM blog – and for good reason. There’s a new project on the horizon at Sussex, which we hope will transform our digital estate – taking in our website, news systems, a possible intranet and databases that

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