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        "title" :"Analytics.usa.gov: Now with Agency-Specific Dashboards","summary" : "We’ve added agency-specific dashboards to analytics.usa.gov!","date" : "2016-02-18T11:10:51-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden","gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks","gabriel-ramirez" : "Gabriel Ramirez","eric-mill" : "Eric Mill","julia-winn" : "Julia Winn","colin-craig" : "Colin Craig"},"topics" : {
          
              "analytics" : "Analytics"
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        "title" :"Analytics.usa.gov: New Features and More Data","summary" : " As of writing this post, 25,225 of the 124,878 total visitors on federal government websites participating in the Digital Analytics Program (DAP) are NOT located in the United States. And as a result of","date" : "2015-12-01T13:00:53-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden","gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks","eric-mill" : "Eric Mill","julia-winn" : "Julia Winn","gabriel-ramirez" : "Gabriel Ramirez"},"topics" : {
          
              "analytics" : "Analytics",
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        "title" :"Gov Analytics Breakdown #2: Mobile Is Bigger than Ever","summary" : "A review of the Digital Analytics Program (DAP) data confirms what many are already saying: Content is being viewed on mobile devices more than ever before, and the percentage of sessions via mobile devices is growing.","date" : "2015-10-21T13:22:30-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "analytics" : "Analytics",
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              "mobile" : "Mobile",
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        "title" :"Gov Analytics Breakdown #1 \u0026#8211; Browsers: Chrome Takes the Cake","summary" : "We wanted to take a look at overall browser usage now that DAP has a few years of data, and the changes tell an interesting story. Here’s a breakdown of the percent of total sessions of the top five browsers during the last three years.","date" : "2015-10-15T15:25:39-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "analytics" : "Analytics",
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              "analytics" : "Analytics",
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              "analytics" : "Analytics",
              "open-data" : "Open data"
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        "title" :"Why Your Social Traffic Looks Low in Analytics Tools","summary" : "Part of my job as an analyst on the Digital Analytics Program (DAP) team is to help agency users try to make sense of digital analytics data by using web analytics tools. I","date" : "2015-04-07T13:00:23-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "analytics" : "Analytics",
              "social-media" : "Social media"
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        "title" :"Turning Government Data into Better Public Service","summary" : "Every day, millions of people use their laptops, phones, and tablets to check the status of their tax refund, get the latest forecast from the National Weather Service, book a campsite at one of our national parks, and much more. There were more than 1.3 billion visits to websites across the federal government in just","date" : "2015-03-19T10:32:42-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"leah-bannon" : "Leah Bannon","tlowden" : "Tim Lowden","ryan-panchadsaram" : "Ryan Panchadsaram","charles-worthington" : "Charles Worthington"},"topics" : {
          
              "analytics" : "Analytics"
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        "title" :"Guidance for DAP Gov-Wide Data","summary" : "On August 17th, Steve VanRoekel, U.S. Chief Information Officer, sent a memo to the CIO Council that stated beginning Aug 29, 2014, access to all Digital Analytics Program (DAP) data government-wide will be rolled out to all participating DAP agency users. That means that DAP users will have access not only to their specific agency&#8217;s","date" : "2014-08-28T11:11:14-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
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        "title" :"Challenge, Contract or Grant \u0026#8211; Which tool is right for the job?","summary" : "Choosing between a contract, a grant, or a public prize competition to get solutions to the problems your agency faces is a difficult task. Each is a tool that has different qualities and each might be the best choice for varying situations.","date" : "2014-08-14T09:52:00-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
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        "title" :"\u0026#8220;Deconstructing\u0026#8221; Public Prize Competitions Can Result in Better Solutions","summary" : "The message from a recent DigitalGov University webinar on public prize competitions (challenges) was that the government can often receive better solutions by going through the exact same process, and giving awards at each step.","date" : "2014-07-29T10:07:10-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions"
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        "title" :"User Experience (UX) vs. Customer Experience (CX): What\u0026#8217;s the Dif?","summary" : "&ldquo;User Experience&rdquo; and &ldquo;Customer Experience.&rdquo; They sound pretty similar, right? Well, here at the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, we look at it like this: User Experience (UX) deals with people interacting with your product and the experience they receive from that interaction. UX is measured with metrics like: success rate, error rate,","date" : "2014-07-07T10:00:02-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "customer-experience" : "Customer experience",
              "search-engine-optimization" : "Search engine optimization",
              "user-experience" : "User experience"
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        "title" :"CDC’s “Predict the Flu Season Challenge” Could Keep You Well in the Future","summary" : "The results of an innovative government prize competition might help you avoid the flu next season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced the winner of the &ldquo;Predict the Influenza Season Challenge&rdquo;: Dr. Jeffrey Shaman of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and his team submitted an","date" : "2014-06-24T10:00:36-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions"
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    },{
        "title" :"Consumer Action Handbook \u0026#8211; Usability Case Study","summary" : "The Consumer Action Handbook is a guide to making smarter decisions with your money. It's print and online formats, available in English and Spanish, include a compilation of buying tips from across government agencies, updates on the latest scams, and a robust consumer contact directory.","date" : "2014-06-06T10:00:32-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden","marietta-jelks" : "Marietta Jelks"},"topics" : {
          
              "design" : "Design",
              "research" : "Research",
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        "title" :"In Crowdsourcing Competitions, Defining the Problem is Half the Battle","summary" : "After leading a complex effort to crowdsource ideas to solve a problem facing your agency, the last thing you want to hear is that the innovative solutions you received don’t actually help remedy the issue. More than 20 federal innovators recently took part in","date" : "2014-04-28T10:00:31-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions",
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        "title" :"GSA Acquisition Portal \u0026#8211; Usability Case Study","summary" : "Incorporating usability testing throughout the entire design process, especially before launch, allows you catch glitches and/or make design changes prior to anyone seeing it live. When more than minor adjustments need to be made to your site, it’s much better to have completed them before the public sees it. For Christina Mullins, a Contracting Officer","date" : "2014-04-21T10:00:24-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "design" : "Design",
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              "user-experience" : "User experience"
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        "title" :"Heatmapping Tools Show What\u0026#8217;s \u0026#8220;Hot\u0026#8221; on Your Pages","summary" : "Most analytics tools can tell you how many times a link on your page is clicked on, but they can’t help you draw conclusions about a page with just a mere list of top links. A tool called a heatmap turns data into a data visualization, so you can more easily see how people are","date" : "2014-04-04T10:00:37-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "research" : "Research",
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        "title" :"Measuring User Experience: A Few Tips","summary" : "With a calculated process, the right tools, and a staff willing to make it work, you can measure user experience (UX) on your websites and implement usability changes that show results. In a recent DigitalGov University webinar entitled &ldquo;Measuring User Experience&rdquo;, UX supporters and practitioners heard from Achaia Walton, Senior Digital Analyst at the Department","date" : "2014-03-26T10:00:24-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
              "research" : "Research",
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        "title" :"HHS Uses Crowdsourcing in Booming mHealth Industry","summary" : "The mobile health (mHealth) market is projected to become a $50 billion industry by 2020, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been actively contributing to the rise of the mHealth applications. The agency uses public prize competitions like the recent &#8220;Game On: HIV/STD Prevention Mobile Application Video Game Challenge&#8221; to crowdsource a","date" : "2014-03-19T10:07:39-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
          
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