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Legislation is often extremely difficult to understand and interpret. It uses complex legalese language and often includes multiple references to other legislation meaning you may need to read multiple pieces of legislation to understand one ‘rule’.

The presentation will give an overview of the Australian Government Style Manual. This manual has rules for using plain language and clear writing. It will also explain parts of the DTA’s new Digital Experience Policy, which supports the creation of user-friendly, accessible content.

Internal teams often have a strong organizational lens that can obscure their understanding of users and hinder strategic efforts. In this presentation, We’ll share practical methods for overcoming these biases to better connect with the user perspective, whether you’re focused on content strategy, web management, or broader initiatives.

"Mind Games: Leveraging Behavioral Economics in Content Strategy" to uncover the psychological insights that can transform your content into a powerful tool for engagement and action.

Rules as Code (RaC) is gaining momentum and has considerable transformative potential, if done right. This is especially the case for governments, because complex legislation and government rules in a constantly changing landscape can be codified to drastically simplify digital experiences for its citizens.

Your website is full of content. Some may be useful to your constituents, some might need TLC, and other content...well...it's just time to take it out.

For Government Agencies, effectively communicating and delivering content to your internal teams and external audiences is mission critical. Complexities abound making security, governance, compliance, and personalization seem impossible. However, with great challenges come greater opportunities.

This presentation will cover creating an audit plan, identifying content types, setting a review schedule, gaining stakeholder buy-in, and developing a content inventory. Auditing and archiving web content is essential for maintaining and improving digital content accessibility.

Getting Drupal to work in a government environment is a technology problem. Getting good content into that Drupal system, however, is a people problem.

Working with the NCDIT Digital Solutions team on the migration and redesign project for the State of North Carolina Drupal 10 multisite platform supporting 80 state agency websites