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This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
A government introduction to social media; from aiding research to the ethical considerations of using such platforms.
Information about the Department of Health and Social Care’s social media accounts and how we moderate them.
How we use social media to communicate with you.
Responders are using social media as a method of widening their access to communities.
The Department for Education’s social media policy and how we interact with our social media followers.
This report examines how DWP could use social media data for social research purposes.
The literature suggests that social media has potential to be used for governance purposes, but this is not capitalised on in most contexts
This note was prepared by NatCen Social Research for the Department for International Development
Student Loans Company Social Media Terms of Use
The Committee on Standards in Public Life's Blog and Twitter profile.
Information about the Charity Commission’s social media accounts and how they are managed.
This report examines the changing nature of participation through social media
How we use social media and blogs to communicate with you.
This report examines the potential of social media for monitoring and communications, using the 2015 Nigerian elections as a case study
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