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    {"title" :"GSA Introduces News Genius to Decode Government Web","summary" : "The federal government can now unlock the collaborative genius of citizens and communities to make public services easier to access and understand with a new free social media platform launched by GSA today at the Federal #SocialGov Summit on Entrepreneurship and Small Business.","date" : "2014-03-27T08:00:20-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jherman" : "Justin Herman"},"topics" : {
        
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      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-27-gsa-introduces-news-genius-to-decode-government-web.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-27-gsa-introduces-news-genius-to-decode-government-web.md","slug" : "gsa-introduces-news-genius-to-decode-government-web","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/03/27/gsa-introduces-news-genius-to-decode-government-web/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eThe federal government can now unlock the collaborative “genius” of citizens and communities to make public services easier to access and understand with a new free social media platform launched by GSA today at the Federal #SocialGov Summit on Entrepreneurship and Small Business.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n        src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/gsa-mentor-protege-on-mobile-phone-comp.png\"alt=\"Photo of a mobile phone displaying the News Genius app.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eNews Genius, an \u003ca href=\"http://news.rapgenius.com/\"\u003eannotation wiki based on Rap Genius now featuring federal-friendly Terms of Service\u003c/a\u003e, allows users to enhance policies, regulations and other documents with in-depth explanations, background information and paths to more resources.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the hands of government managers it will improve public services through citizen feedback and plain language, and will reduce costs by delivering these benefits on a free platform that doesn’t require a contract.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/105301?utm_source=SBU\u0026utm_medium=print-radio\u0026utm_term=mentorprotege\u0026utm_campaign=shortcuts\"\u003eGSA’s Mentor-Protege Program\u003c/a\u003e will use News Genius to\u003ca href=\"http://news.rapgenius.com/Us-general-services-administration-gsa-mentor-protege-program-subpart-51970-annotated\"\u003e open their policies to annotations\u003c/a\u003e from current and previous participants in order to:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake the path to participation in the Mentor-Protege Program more accessible and understandable for citizens and partners.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImprove our program by making obstacles to participate easier to identify and fix, based on crowdsourced feedback from the citizens who need them.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild more effective entrepreneur/public partnerships by providing a free, easy to use platform to collaborate.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"http://news.rapgenius.com/Us-general-services-administration-gsa-mentor-protege-program-subpart-51970-annotated\"\u003efirst document open for annotation\u003c/a\u003e is at the bottom of this post: agencies can host the documents on the News Genius website, annotate from their mobile app, or embed the annotations on a government website or blog.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe federal government joins the City of Chicago’s \u003ca href=\"http://news.rapgenius.com/SmartChicago\"\u003eSmart Chicago Collaborative\u003c/a\u003e, MIT, Harvard and other leading colleges and universities in putting News Genius to practical uses. The Smart Chicago Collaborative opens contracts, municipal code, request for proposals and more. The edX online education initiative, including MIT, Harvard and the Smithsonian Institution, similarly uses the annotation platform to unlock deeper understandings of course materials.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis announcement comes today in conjunction with our SocialGov Summit, hosted by the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/communities/social-media/\"\u003eFederal SocialGov Community\u003c/a\u003e and the Small Business Administration, which focuses on how government can better grow opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses using digital engagement, social media and data.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe summit includes discussion of innovative new programs from agencies including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Defense Intelligence Agency, on topics including the Internet of Things, mobile development and performance analysis.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe SocialGov Summits are an ongoing education and training series through \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/events/\"\u003eDigitalGov University\u003c/a\u003e open free to government employees in order to help build the government of the 21st Century. We have \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/01/28/innovation-means-more-better-cost-effective-digital-training/\"\u003equadrupled the amount of these digital trainings\u003c/a\u003e available in 2014, with the same resources, by using social media and data as a mechanism to improve the internal function of government itself.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/communities/social-media/\"\u003eSocialGov Community\u003c/a\u003e, also known less-coolly as the Federal Social Media Community of Practice, is a performance-driven team of 600 digital engagement managers from more than 130 federal programs committed to using social media to measurably improve public services and measurably reduce costs. Recent shared services delivered by the SocialGov Community include the:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efirst comprehensive \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/04/19/social-media-metrics-for-federal-agencies/\"\u003esocial media performance analysis recommendations\u003c/a\u003e for government\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efirst federal toolkit to improve the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/11/30/socialgov-summit-highlights-accessibility-challenges/\"\u003eaccessibility of social media for persons with disabilities\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eupcoming first policy development toolkit all agencies can use to improve and govern their digital engagement programs, vetted by a coalition of more than 20 agencies.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more information on the SocialGov Community, check out our recent \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/02/18/state-of-the-socialgov-2014/\"\u003e“State of the #SocialGov 2014” post\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe News Genius annotation wiki for GSA’s Mentor-Protege Program can be viewed below:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead \u003ca href=\"http://news.rapgenius.com/Us-general-services-administration-gsa-mentor-protege-program-subpart-51970-annotated\"\u003e“GSA Mentor-Protege Program (Subpart 519.70)” by U.S. General Services Administration\u003c/a\u003e on News Genius.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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