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Contribute to the digital.gov.bc.ca blog

Learn how to share the great work of your team and ministry on the digital.gov.bc.ca blog.

Share your story

We know that real people and their stories are key to improving B.C. government services. We invite you to contribute a blog post about your own journey improving services for people in B.C.

Your writing will play a crucial role in shaping a more connected and efficient public service.

Get started

We’d love to hear about your expertise or experience:

  • Using artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI technologies
  • Creating and building connected services
  • Making service delivery more efficient

For examples of the finished product, check out our blogs on improving permit tracking with AI or writing better AI prompts.

Choosing your theme (or themes)

Your experiences can offer unique insight into how our government operates in digital service delivery. By sharing, you contribute in multiple ways and can illuminate a variety of topics. Potential blog themes could include:

Inspiring innovation

  • Sparking new ideas and approaches in digital services, including working with AI

Sharing ideas and expertise

  • Helping other teams navigate complex challenges and new concepts

Encouraging best practices

  • Demonstrating the real-world application of digital practices 

Building community

  • Contributing to a collaborative digital government network 

Raising awareness of services

  • Highlighting the diverse range of services offered and their impact on the public

A success story to inspire others

  • Sharing how you made a service experience better for everyone

Your blog doesn’t have to accomplish all these themes at once. We suggest framing the post around 1 or 2 themes that fit your story, and are exciting and important to you.

We may group your blog into a category with other similarly themed posts to make it easier to find. Success stories are currently our most popular category, so your project or idea might be included here if we think it’s a good fit.

What we look for

The digital.gov.bc.ca team will help every step of the way. Here’s what we like to see in blog writing:

Real-life stories and first-person writing

Provide examples, data or statistics for depth and context. Focus on the human aspect of your work, and hook your readers by opening with a true story or anecdote.

Accessible, reader-friendly text

Use plain language, concise and short sentences and bullet points when possible. Short, readable headings will help make your story flow. Imagine you’re sharing to a friend or family member who doesn’t work in government and make it easy for them to follow.

Relatability, personality and fun

Offer information that will resonate with both public service employees and a general audience. When appropriate, use humour to keep things lively and relatable. Let your unique personality show in the writing!

How to submit your writing

We’re here to make this as easy as possible:

  1. Send us an email that outlines your idea
  2. We’ll review your content and meet with you to fine-tune the story
  3. Submit your draft. A member of our team will help edit for clarity and readability
  4. We’ll import your revised draft into WordPress for final review and help navigate the approval processes
  5. A publish date will be determined and we’ll work with you to source images
  6. Content is reviewed for approval by GCPE (assume a 1 week turnaround)
  7. The blog is published!

Approvals

Please note that we reserve approval on blog posts and may edit parts of your post for length or content. We will work with you to determine a publish date, but this may shift in response to other content in our calendar. Leave yourself enough time to collect any approvals necessary from your own team and ministry.

AI-generated content

If your draft includes content generated using AI, let us know where and how. This supports transparency, helps us understand the role AI played in shaping the content, and sets the right expectation about accuracy and authorship.

Sample templates

There’s no required format for the digital.gov.bc.ca blog. Above all, our audience will be interested in what you’re most excited to share.

If you need a hand to get writing, feel free to use one of these templates as a starting point.

Blogs we like

Here’s a sample of blogs from outside B.C. government that demonstrate what we like to see.