Read stories and reflections from our teams on our work across digital. We’ll share our thoughts, approaches and what we learn as we work together to design better public services.

Making the Royal Borough of Greenwich a truly digital council and borough

Making services more accessible through an accessibility audit day

Our services are for everyone, so it’s crucial we make Royal Greenwich’s online footprint as accessible as possible. Since 2021, we’ve been…

Dan Harper-Wain

May 24

Join our growing Data team at the Royal Borough of Greenwich

Written: 22 March 2024 by Sam White, Head of Data

Royal Greenwich Digital

Apr 2

Learning fast through a hackathon on our recruitment process

Written: 13 March 2024 by Katherine Everest, Product Manager

Royal Greenwich Digital

Mar 21

I messed it up, but it’s okay

This article aims to outline three significant mistakes I’ve made and the changes I’m experimenting with.

Yu-Hsuan Ho (Sharon)

Mar 8

My first few weeks at Royal Borough of Greenwich

I joined RBG’s product team as a Senior Service Designer at the beginning of February after a 6-month work break. Read about my work break…

Nadja Toft

Feb 19

Improving how we manage website content requests

Alysia-Marie Annett

Feb 16

Separate your self worth from your work

This is inspired by a talk from Lauren Pope called Everything, Everywhere All At Once hosted by We Are Content Club.

Alysia-Marie Annett

Dec 15, 2023

Co-shaping my role as Service Design Lead

How to use a design mindset and a collaborative process to do it.

Darinka Yoli

Dec 12, 2023

Developing our feedback culture at Royal Greenwich

Written: 12 December 2023 by Alex Sturtivant, Senior Product Manager

Royal Greenwich Digital

Dec 12, 2023

New beginnings at RBG

Often we might be scared to apply for a new job. Or take on that new challenge at work. It’s easy to fall into a comfort zone and become…

Charlene J

Dec 11, 2023

My first full month as Content Lead

I’ve been navigating my change of responsibilities since became Content Lead at Royal Greenwich.

Alysia-Marie Annett

Nov 6, 2023

Our tour of the Google Accessibility Discovery Centre

A few weeks ago, 11 members of our Product Team went along to the Google Accessibility Discovery Centre tour.

Royal Greenwich Digital

Oct 26, 2023

Welcome to our Royal Greenwich digital blog

The digital team in its current form was started in 2021 after the publication of the council’s first digital strategy in November 2020.

Royal Greenwich Digital

Sep 11, 2023

Running a hackathon to work on solutions for Free School Meal Holiday Vouchers

Written: 7 September 2023 by Cheryl Cheung, Senior Service Designer

Royal Greenwich Digital

Sep 11, 2023

Running a retro using the Digital Service Standard

Written: 16 August 2022 by Darren McCormac, Senior Delivery Manager

Royal Greenwich Digital

Aug 18, 2023

Building a reusable directory of community services

Written: 16 August 2022 by Darren McCormack, Senior Delivery Manager and Alex Sturtivant, Senior Product Manager

Royal Greenwich Digital

Aug 11, 2023

Building a mentoring relationship between delivery managers

Written: 28 July 2023 by Melanie Wong and Scott Drayton, Delivery Managers

Royal Greenwich Digital

Aug 10, 2023

Using existing cloud technology to save money creating visitor passes

Written: 28 July 2023 by John Annand, CRM developer

Royal Greenwich Digital

Jul 31, 2023

Tailor your content approach to your organisation’s context

Alysia-Marie Annett

Jul 28, 2023

Building a staff roster to improve back-office efficiency using PowerApps

Written: 4 May 2023 by Developer Nathan Burchell

Royal Greenwich Digital

Jun 30, 2023

7 weeks in RBG Digital Product Land

Written: 7 March 2023 by Product Manager, Alex Ferrand

Royal Greenwich Digital

Jun 30, 2023

Testing low-code tools to transform Royal Greenwich’s street services operation

Written: 5 October 2022 by Product Lead, Dan Harper-Wain

Royal Greenwich Digital

Jun 30, 2023

Join us on a mission to build a reusable open-source community directory product for Local Gov

Written: 19 August 2022 by Senior Product Manager, Alex Sturtivant

Royal Greenwich Digital

Jun 30, 2023

Introducing a discovery into the Royal Greenwich intranets

Written: 13 December 2021 by Senior Product Manager, Alex Douglas

Royal Greenwich Digital

Jun 30, 2023

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