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Webinar Recap: How To Best Connect With Your Spanish-speaking Audience During an Emergency
In this panel discussion, experts from different agencies shared how they’ve used social media to reach Hispanic audiences during emergencies and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keynote Speaker Recap: Would More Plain Language Have Saved Us From the Worst of the Pandemic?
A summary of Cynthia Baur’s keynote at the 2021 Plain Language Summit.
Webinar Recap: The Part-Timer
Learn how Joanne Short of the United States Postal Service (USPS) opened professional doors by going beyond her job description in her Plain Language Summit session, The Part-Timer.
Results of the 2021 Federal Report Card
Three Ways USAGov Outreach Can Help with Your Agency’s Next Campaign
Three Ways USAGov Outreach Can Help with Your Agency’s Next Campaign—Does your agency have an idea for a new marketing strategy? USAGov’s Outreach team can support your agency in all stages of your campaign. We can brainstorm with your team, discuss best practices, and try new marketing approaches to grow together in serving people. Learn how to begin partnering with us.— via USA.gov
FAR Updated To Add Revised Section 508 Standards for Information and Communication Technology
FAR Updated To Add Revised Section 508 Standards for Information and Communication Technology—On January 18, 2017, the U.S. Access Board issued a final rule (the Revised 508 Standards) that updated accessibility requirements covered by Section 508 for Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Read more about the final FAR rule update and changes effective as of September 10, 2021.— via Section508.gov
2021 Federal Plain Language Summit
Using Plain Language To Tell Our Stories
8 Ways Community of Practice (CoP) Managers Can Improve Member Engagement on Listservs
Are you a Digital.gov Community of Practice (CoP) lead? Find yourself participating in a CoP discussion and wondering what else you can do? We’ve got some suggestions.
Positioning Yourself as a Plain Language Editor
Deep Fakes and Social Media
Social Media Spring Session 2021
6 Ways To Navigate the Civic Tech Sea of Newness
Two former private-sector marketers now serving as Presidential Innovation Fellows share tips for building relationships and finding your way as a civic technologist.
Plain Language: Accessibility for Content
Five Insider Secrets to Engaging Emails
Engaging readers who receive hundreds of emails a day is not easy, but it starts with the most critical starting point—empathy for their time.
Federal Social Media Week 2020!
2020 Federal Plain Language Summit
Product lessons from the front lines of COVID-19 civic tech response
Two Presidential Innovation Fellows share how we can build digital services quickly without compromising quality for the public in times of crisis.