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  • Helping small businesses get paid on time

    Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are currently waiting for £26.3 billion in overdue payments (data from BACS). It’s a shocking statistic. Government is taking steps to address this and change the behaviour of late payers, by establishing a Small Business Commissioner – Paul Uppal. As a small business ourselves, we want to help. So…

  • Celebrating Ada Lovelace at dxw

    This year, we’re celebrating Ada Lovelace Day to honour the pioneering women in technology and the public sector. Who was Ada Lovelace? Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, is considered to have written instructions for the first computer program in the mid-1800s. After translating an article by Charles Babbage, it’s often said that she…

  • The importance of unconferences… or why the best bits shouldn’t happen in the pub!

    Last weekend I attended UK Health Camp, one of a number of unconferences dxw sponsors. I was also lucky enough to be part of the organising committee for the event, giving me another perspective on why this event and others like it are so important. In public sector digital, we speak a great deal about…

  • Proud sponsors of UK Health Camp 2017

    This Saturday will see the third free Health Camp in the UK, bringing together healthcare professionals, policymakers and service managers with designers, digital specialists and technologists. The aim of UK Health Camp unconference is to make both health and care services better for everyone involved – patients, carers and health professionals across the board. The…

  • Building a collaborative relationship between client and supplier: An anti-pattern workshop

    Last week, we headed off to a campsite in Dorset for the very first CommsUnplugged event, keeping our fingers crossed that the rain would hold off for at least most of the day, and luckily we weren’t disappointed. After a great keynote opener by Giles Henschel from Olives et al and other workshops and panels…

  • How to communicate more effectively with colleagues

    This summer we headed off to Birmingham to sponsor and take part in the CommsCamp unconference, where a converted warehouse played host to over 180 public sector PR, marketing and communications professionals. Throughout the day, a common theme that emerged was of the problems with internal communications in the public sector and how these can be…