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},{"title" :"Justice department to publish final rule to strengthen web and mobile app access for people with disabilities","deck" : "On April 8, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland signed a final rule under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure the accessibility of web content and mobile applications for people with disabilities. This final rule clarifies the obligations of state and local governments to make their websites and mobile applications accessible. Learn more about this rule and why the Attorney General believes it will “break down barriers that have kept people with disabilities from fully participating in American Life.”","summary" : "On April 8, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland signed a final rule under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure the accessibility of web content and mobile applications for people with disabilities. This final rule clarifies the obligations of state and local governments to make their websites and mobile applications accessible. Learn more about this rule and why the Attorney General believes it will “break down barriers that have kept people with disabilities from fully participating in American Life.”","date" : "2024-04-08T00:00:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Designing with empathy","deck" : "Discover the transformative power of empathy in design with USAGov’s benefit finder. From simplifying applications to a mobile-first approach, the revamped tool not only functions efficiently in two different languages and cultural contexts, but demonstrates the consideration for users in challenging situations. Explore how empathy turned a government service into a compassionate lifeline, creating a product that genuinely understands and meets people where they are.","summary" : "Discover the transformative power of empathy in design with USAGov’s benefit finder. From simplifying applications to a mobile-first approach, the revamped tool not only functions efficiently in two different languages and cultural contexts, but demonstrates the consideration for users in challenging situations. Explore how empathy turned a government service into a compassionate lifeline, creating a product that genuinely understands and meets people where they are.","date" : "2024-01-25T11:53:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Why the American People Deserve a Digital Government","deck" : "OMB released new policy guidance for government that includes a variety of actions and standards to help federal agencies design, develop, and deliver modern websites and digital services. Memo M-23-22, Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience, will make it seamless for the public to obtain government information and services online, and help agencies fully implement the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (21st Century IDEA).","summary" : "OMB recently released new policy guidance for government that includes a variety of actions and standards to help federal agencies design, develop, and deliver modern websites and digital services. Memo M-23-22, Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience, will make it seamless for the public to obtain government information and services online, and help agencies fully implement the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (21st Century IDEA).","date" : "2023-09-22T13:26:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Judiciary Launches New Federal Ticket Processing Website","deck" : "Individuals can now pay tickets for minor federal violations more easily, using a redesigned website for the Judiciary’s Central Violations Bureau. The website, officially launched in early May, leverages new technologies and best design practices to improve usability and accessibility across devices, including smart phones.","summary" : "Individuals can now pay tickets for minor federal violations more easily, using a redesigned website for the Judiciary’s Central Violations Bureau. The website, officially launched in early May, leverages new technologies and best design practices to improve usability and accessibility across devices, including smart phones.","date" : "2023-05-02T10:36:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"U.S. Web Design System","deck" : "A design system for the federal government.","summary" : "A design system for the federal government that makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the American public.","date" : "2019-04-11T23:37:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jeremyzilar" : "Jeremy Zilar"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"An Introduction to USWDS 3.0","deck" : "A design system for the federal government.","summary" : "A design system for the federal government that makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the American public.","date" : "2019-04-11T23:37:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jeremyzilar" : "Jeremy Zilar"},"topics" : {
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},{"kicker" : "Communities of Practice","title" :"Join the Web Managers","deck" : "Share and learn with web and digital services practitioners.","summary" : "Create a better online experience for the public alongside government web content managers.","date" : "2013-11-21T02:31:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"toni-bonitto" : "Toni Bonitto","tori-garten" : "Tori Garten","beth-martin" : "Beth Martin","ruxi-giura" : "Ruxi Giura"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Slack AMA Connect Standards Team with Public","summary" : "The Standards team hosted their first AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the public in August. Here’s a breakdown of the big topics discussed during the chat.","date" : "2017-09-25T15:47:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"john-donmoyer" : "John Donmoyer","marco-segreto" : "Marco Segreto","wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan","ryan-thurlwell" : "Ryan Thurlwell","atul-varma" : "Atul Varma"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"A Conversation With ITIF About the State of Federal Government Websites","summary" : "Since it’s been nearly six months since their report was released, we wanted to check in with ITIF and see what they’ve learned, what they’ve heard from agencies and what their future plans are to build on this research.","date" : "2017-09-20T11:00:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
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"plain-language" : "Plain language",
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},{"title" :"USDA FoodKeeper App Update Expands Content Offerings","summary" : "The USDA’s multilingual FoodKeeper app has been updated to include three options for receiving food recall updates and expands storage timelines to over 500 products. This post was originally published on the USDA blog. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced new updates to its popular FoodKeeper application that will provide users with new access to","date" : "2017-09-07T03:59:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"christopher-bernstein" : "Christopher Bernstein"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"2016 / 2017 Mobile Analysis: Mobile Device Trends on Government Websites","summary" : "Now that we have seen the top level shift from desktop to mobile, let us drill deeper into mobile device specific trends.","date" : "2017-08-14T12:00:56-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"freddie-blicher" : "Freddie Blicher"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Advice From Digital Thought Leaders","summary" : "Many know that digital tools have become indispensable for connecting with many audiences—but we also know that what’s available in the digital realm is always changing. So how do you know what tools are best for your purpose? And how do you plan for your organization’s digital future when the pace of change is so","date" : "2017-06-22T15:31:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"hiv-gov" : "HIV.gov"},"topics" : {
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"innovation" : "Innovation",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"multimedia" : "Multimedia",
"open-data" : "Open data",
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},{"title" :"Fostering Medical Innovation: A Plan for Digital Health Devices","summary" : "It is incumbent upon FDA to ensure that we have the right policies in place to promote and encourage safe and effective innovation that can benefit consumers, and adopt regulatory approaches to enable the efficient development of these technologies. By taking an efficient, risk-based approach to our regulation, FDA can promote health through the creation","date" : "2017-06-16T15:07:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"scott-gottlieb-m-d" : "Scott Gottlieb, M.D."},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Are Chatbots the Next mHealth Frontier?","summary" : "In April, Facebook made it possible for organizations to use chatbots to send and receive messages from users of Facebook Messenger. That’s a big deal. Facebook Messenger is now used by 900 million people every month. As the name implies, it’s a messaging platform that people use to send short messages to each other through","date" : "2016-11-17T10:00:48-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lindy-dreyer" : "Lindy Dreyer","torey-vanek" : "Torey Vanek"},"topics" : {
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"trust" : "Trust"
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},{"title" :"Hualapai Public Safety Meet Old and New Challenges Through Technology","summary" : "How can a place be remote and virtually unpopulated, yet constantly full of thousands of people and teeming with activity? It certainly seems impossible, but that is exactly the situation at Grand Canyon West (GCW), home of the Hualapai indigenous Indian Tribe and the famous Skywalk.","date" : "2016-11-14T11:00:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lesia-dickson" : "Lesia Dickson"},"topics" : {
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"innovation" : "Innovation",
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},{"title" :"“For Those Who Serve” App Collection Provides Mobile Resources for Veterans","summary" : "In honor of Veterans Day, several VA mobile apps are featured this week in the Apple App Store. In the “For Those Who Serve” collection of resources, Veterans can find the latest military news, essential health and wellness information, and other valuable tools for everyday life. The highlighted VA apps are designed to help Veterans manage their","date" : "2016-11-10T12:00:47-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"melissa-heintz" : "Melissa Heintz"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Digital Transition: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age","deck" : "Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration","summary" : "Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration. President Obama is the first “social media president”: the first to have @POTUS on Twitter, the first to go live on Facebook from the Oval Office, the first to answer questions from citizens on YouTube.","date" : "2016-11-02T12:00:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kori-schulman" : "Kori Schulman"},"topics" : {
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"open-data" : "Open data",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesdays: Mobile Phone Camera Upgrades Offer Interesting Opportunities for Government Agencies","summary" : "Professional photographer and early “iPhonography” pioneer, Chase Jarvis coined the phrase, “The best camera is the one that’s with you.” The recent jumps in mobile phone photo technology presents interesting opportunities for government agencies to consider as mobile phone cameras are starting to rival and surpass professional gear. When Google and Apple both announced their","date" : "2016-11-01T10:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: Help Predict the Future of Federal Government Data","summary" : "In December, I plan to write two postings detailing a scenario analysis for the next ten years of the Federal government’s data technologies. Governments are on the cusp of amazing technological advances propelled by artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies, and the Internet of Things. Also, governments will face new challenges such as the recent global cyber","date" : "2016-10-26T13:00:55-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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"open-data" : "Open data",
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},{"title" :"GSA launches new AI, Virtual Reality, and Authentication Programs","summary" : "Today we’re launching three new initiatives powered by GSA Digital Communities that leap federal agencies ahead on some of the most innovative new capabilities becoming available to our programs — Artificial Intelligence, Virtual/Augmented Reality, and the U.S. Digital Registry. These new Communities and portal are products of inter-agency collaboration and our shared commitment pushing the","date" : "2016-10-26T10:00:17-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jherman" : "Justin Herman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Digital Interface — Without a Face — Is Coming Fast","summary" : "The seemingly sci-fi world envisioned in the movie Her is very close to becoming our reality. Several new developments merging hardware, artificial intelligence technology, chatbots and persistent audio assistants are now available, with software developer kits to expand the platforms.","date" : "2016-10-18T11:00:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Progressive Web Applications, Part 2: Pros, Cons, and Looking Ahead","summary" : "A few weeks ago, Progressive Web Applications, Part 1: the New Pack Mule of the Internet introduced PWAs and the technologies behind them. We shared that article to the MobileGov Community of Practice and asked about the pros and cons of this approach to winning mobile moments. What Are Some Benefits of PWAs? PWAs bring","date" : "2016-10-13T11:00:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"david-fern" : "David Fern"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Near… FAR… Wherever you are….","summary" : "The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) made history today by releasing the first ever iBook version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). And while a tome about the complex rules governing the federal government’s purchasing process may not sound like a bestseller, the FAR is essential reading not just for federal contracting officers and federal","date" : "2016-10-06T11:00:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jeff-koses" : "Jeff Koses"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Creating Wall-Sized Interaction at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum","summary" : "As any experienced retailer will tell you, the customer experience begins at the store entrance. Note the friendly Walmart greeter, the approachable minimalism of an Apple Store, and the calculated whimsy of Anthropologie. Store designers understand that a customer’s decision to make a purchase is often made within seconds of entering. The same holds true","date" : "2016-09-30T01:00:59-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ben-bloom" : "Benjamin Bloom"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NASA: Open Gov Plan 2016 Outline","summary" : "Here is the outline for our 2016 Open Government Plan. Let us know what you think.","date" : "2016-09-29T02:00:50-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"beth-beck" : "Beth Beck"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: Recapping Content Marketing Trends in 2016—How Have We Stacked Up?","summary" : "Earlier this year, it was predicted that content marketing would become even more important due to its ability to enhance not just visibility, but also increase engagement with customers—who could, in turn, become great promoters of your content.","date" : "2016-09-26T14:00:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kyle-s-richardson" : "Kyle S. Richardson"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"multilingual" : "Multilingual",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
"social-media" : "Social media"
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},{"title" :"Progressive Web Applications, Part 1: the New Pack Mule of the Internet","summary" : "A mule is the hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a horse. This new species is stronger and better equipped than the species from which it comes. Overall, mules tend to be healthier, more sound, and live longer than horses. They are favored over horses in mountainous terrain because the mule has a reputation for being more surefooted than their equine cousins.","date" : "2016-09-20T11:00:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"david-fern" : "David Fern"},"topics" : {
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"design" : "Design",
"innovation" : "Innovation",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: Harnessing the Internet of Things and Synthetic Data to Provide Better Flood Warnings and Prevent Veterans Suicides","summary" : "Two significant items in federal government data in the last few weeks: The Department of Commerce releases the National Water Model. The National Water Model provides a comprehensive model of river flows so local communities can better prepare for possible flooding events. What is especially amazing about the National Water Model is that it pulls","date" : "2016-09-14T11:00:37-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Webinar Recap: A Look At Google\u0026#8217;s Media Tool and Platform Offerings","summary" : "Suddenly, digital video is everywhere on your social timelines. As a government storyteller, you may be overwhelmed about all the tools available and all of the features each publishing platform has to offer.","date" : "2016-09-13T11:00:15-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"randy-abramson" : "Randy Abramson"},"topics" : {
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"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"multimedia" : "Multimedia",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management"
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: Using Social Media to Promote, Enhance Preparedness for the Public We Serve","summary" : "September is National Preparedness Month. FEMA’s Ready.gov is encouraging everyone to plan how they would stay safe and communicate during disasters that can affect their communities. Additionally, Ready.gov is encouraging full participation in America’s PrepareAthon! and the national day of action, National PrepareAthon! Day, which culminates National Preparedness Month on September 30.","date" : "2016-09-12T10:00:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kyle-s-richardson" : "Kyle S. Richardson"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
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"social-media" : "Social media"
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},{"title" :"Agency Mobile Resources at the Ready Following OMB Memo","summary" : "Note: This is a guest blog post by Amando E. Gavino, Jr., Director, Office of Network Services, ITS/FAS/GSA. He is responsible for a portfolio of telecommunication acquisition solutions that provide government agencies the ability to meet their diverse set of telecommunication requirements. Acquisition solutions include Networx, Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions – EIS (the future replacement for","date" : "2016-09-09T01:00:59-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"amando-e-gavino-jr" : "Amando E. Gavino, Jr."},"topics" : {
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"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Pokemon Go-es Away Slowly","summary" : "According to a recent report in Bloomberg, the wildly popular augmented reality game we reported on a few weeks ago—and the focus of a piece about government agencies using it to engage citizens—appears to have hit a ceiling and is slowly losing active fans in August.","date" : "2016-08-30T12:00:27-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: Microservices and Serverless Apps — A New Direction for Federal Government Mobile Apps?","summary" : "Continuing from last week’s column on DevOps and containers, I will explain two other hot trends in IT — microservices and serverless apps. For those who want official federal government guidance, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft special publication on microservices, application containers, and system virtual machines (PDF, 660","date" : "2016-08-24T10:00:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Signs of the App-ocalypse","summary" : "A new report from the Mobile Ecosystem Forum shows that most users delete apps because of security concerns. The report also said that 47% of survey respondents would pay extra for an app that didn’t share personal information and that the inability to find a privacy policy is one of the leading reasons for consumers losing trust","date" : "2016-08-16T13:00:03-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Latino Users Lead Mobile Use in U.S.","summary" : "The Pew Research Center released a report in July that shows people of Latino descent are heavily reliant on mobile phones for their Internet access, more than other ethnicities. The report said that since 2012, the percentage of Hispanic adults who used mobile devices to access the Internet jumped from 76% to 94% in 2015. These percentages","date" : "2016-08-02T10:00:02-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
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},{"title" :"Widgets, Mobile Apps, and SMS: Essential Agency Tools for Summer Heat Safety, Hurricane Season, and Emergency Preparedness","summary" : "A review of mobile apps, tools, and websites from federal agencies created to help the public with weather and emergency preparedness– and how organizations can help share that information.","date" : "2016-07-28T10:00:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"toni-bonitto" : "Toni Bonitto"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"multilingual" : "Multilingual",
"social-media" : "Social media",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: Quality Over Quantity—a Case for Long-Form Content","summary" : "Content can be categorized in many ways. While breaking down your website analytics, pay a bit of extra attention to the difference between your short- and long-form content; you may find some interesting discoveries. Let’s first define the two terms: Short – Content that is generally created quickly, and consumed just as fast; e.g., tweets,","date" : "2016-07-25T15:00:38-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kyle-s-richardson" : "Kyle S. Richardson"},"topics" : {
"analytics" : "Analytics",
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
"social-media" : "Social media"
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},{"title" :"The FirstNet Network: Smart Response for Smart Cities","summary" : "“Smart City” is an emerging term to describe how a community – large or small – uses connected technology and/or other data sets to influence and improve the delivery of services to the private and public sectors. By integrating data and connectivity into their daily operations, communities can automate many functions to create efficiencies and","date" : "2016-07-22T10:00:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jeanette-kennedy" : "Jeanette Kennedy"},"topics" : {
"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management"
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: \u0026#8220;PreparedGo\u0026#8221; – The Federal Emergency Management Agency Mobile App","summary" : "While you are outside hunting Pokemon or helping your children hunt Pokemon, consider adding another mobile app to your smartphone or tablet. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) mobile app alerts you about severe weather and other natural disasters. The app is also a great information resource on surviving disasters and connects you to FEMA","date" : "2016-07-20T10:00:54-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Unlocking the Promise of Broadband for All Americans","summary" : "The Administration announces new wireless research efforts that will improve testing and research of advanced wireless technologies.","date" : "2016-07-19T02:30:50-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"r-david-edelman" : "R. David Edelman","jason-furman" : "Jason Furman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: Mobile Apps, Responsive Web Sites, and the \u0026#8220;Mobile Moment\u0026#8221;","summary" : "The debate between responsive websites and mobile apps took a decisive turn this week when the United Kingdom’s Digital Service (UKDS) banned the creation of mobile apps. In an interview with GovInsider, the founder of UKDS, Ben Terrett, explained that mobile apps were too expensive to build and maintain. Responsive websites were easier to build","date" : "2016-07-13T10:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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"artificial intelligence" : "Artificial intelligence",
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},{"title" :"Catch the Mall! With Pokemon and Public Services","summary" : "“… I have never seen so many people of all ages walking around our civic spaces and small businesses interacting as I have this morning. Teens catching them. People catching them in line for coffee. Moms outsmarting their kids. Local youths teaching my toddler how to throw a ball. Full grown adults. Marines. Kids on","date" : "2016-07-12T15:58:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jherman" : "Justin Herman","paul-ollig" : "Paul Ollig"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Adoption for Pokémon Go Mobile App Surges","summary" : "Augmented Reality games have existed for years, but have mostly failed to catch a mainstream audience; Pokémon Go just changed all that this weekend. The game that launched early this month has exploded in popularity and is close to surpassing Twitter in daily active","date" : "2016-07-12T10:00:37-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: How to Leverage User-Generated Content to Resonate With Your Audience","summary" : "User-Generated Content (UGC) is a buzzword as of late, popularized recently due to the ever increasing demand for new content.","date" : "2016-07-11T13:30:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kyle-s-richardson" : "Kyle S. Richardson"},"topics" : {
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"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"crowdsourcing-and-citizen-science" : "Crowdsourcing and citizen science",
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},{"title" :"Introducing the Digital Audio/Video Community of Practice","summary" : "Tech giants have changed the world of broadcast forever. In a little more than a year, video on Facebook went from being a seldomly seen media type on a user’s timeline to a strategic priority for Mark Zuckerberg. The platform now serves over 8 billion video views a day and Facebook continues to roll out improvements","date" : "2016-07-08T01:30:48-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"randy-abramson" : "Randy Abramson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Connecting With the Public Safety Community Through Social Media","summary" : "Technology is bringing the world closer together – from connecting people across the country instantly by live video chats to tapping into the insights of data analytics. This is the type of power that FirstNet aims to bring to the public safety community through the nationwide public safety broadband network. FirstNet is working to ensure","date" : "2016-07-07T11:00:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"amanda-hilliard" : "Amanda Hilliard"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: IoT Connected Devices Expected to Surpass Mobile Phones by 2018","summary" : "International telecommunications network operator, Ericsson, released their Mobility Report around the future of mobile recently with a bunch of interesting data around the future of telecommunications and mobile. The surprise star of the report is not mobile phones though—although it will continue to grow, especially in emerging markets where it hasn’t reached saturation like it","date" : "2016-07-05T14:00:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"WCMS and Custom APIs—Which One Is Right for You?","summary" : "Gray Brooks of GSA gave us a great definition of APIs in the DigitalGov University (DGU) presentation, Introduction to APIs. He described APIs as “Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, are web services that allow people to more easily consume content and data in multiple ways—via mobile devices, mobile apps, innovative mash-ups, and much more.” Simply put,","date" : "2016-06-28T11:00:33-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"christen-geiler" : "Christen Geiler"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NASA Space Apps Challenge: 2016 Global Winners!","summary" : "We’re thrilled to announce the Space Apps 2016 Global Award Winners!! These projects well represent the best of the best innovative thinking this year. Congratulations to all the teams. We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming NASA launch in Florida.","date" : "2016-06-27T14:00:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"beth-beck" : "Beth Beck"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Key Trends for Government from Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends","summary" : "Internet strategist Mary Meeker delivered her 2016 Internet Trends report this month, and there are several key takeaways for government agencies to consider and continue tracking as our connected world continues to evolve: Mobile phone adoption and Internet growth is meeting saturation. Incremental global growth will continue (especially in India, which she called out for","date" : "2016-06-21T12:00:54-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Welcome to the New DHS.gov","summary" : "Today, I am happy to announce the newly optimized DHS.gov website. Over the past year, DHS has worked behind the scenes to update and modernize our flagship website, making it faster and easier to use. Some of the specific differences you’ll see are: Compatibility for both desktop computers and mobile devices (phones and tablets) Cleaner,","date" : "2016-06-09T02:00:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"j-todd-breasseale" : "J. Todd Breasseale"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Next Revolution Is Here—Cars Are the New Mobile Devices","summary" : "Last week, Recode published an article focused on a recent report from industry consultant Chetan Sharma that found the largest number of new mobile activations in the first quarter of 2016 came from a ‘different’ kind of mobile tool—cars. There are still a lot of phone and tablet mobile activations happening—31% and 23% of all activations, respectively—but","date" : "2016-06-07T10:00:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Open Data Democratizes Innovation","summary" : "Americans Use Public Data to Improve the Lives of Fellow Citizens Data is one of our most important national assets. It informs our policy and our national priorities. But as we have seen time and time again, the most effective way to govern is to engage with the public directly. Thanks to the President’s Executive Order requiring","date" : "2016-06-02T14:15:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"robin-thottungal" : "Robin A. Thottungal","kris-rowley" : "Kris Rowley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Redesigning We the People","summary" : "Summary: Improving the way you engage with the White House through our online petitions platform In July 2015, we announced a big change in the way we would answer petitions on We the People. We committed to responding to you within a 60-day timeframe, whenever possible. We assembled a team of people dedicated to getting your policy questions and","date" : "2016-05-02T11:32:09-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jason-goldman" : "Jason Goldman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Ownership Reaching Saturation, Fueling Media Consumption","summary" : "ComScore released a report with a lot of great data about how mobile digital media usage continues to explode in 2016. It has 70 pages of charts and information to digest. Here are seven key mobile trends and takeaways: Smartphones are exponentially driving digital media usage. Digital media has tripled since 2013 and digital media","date" : "2016-04-26T11:25:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: An Interview with USAJOBS on New Changes to Their Data Services","summary" : "The Office of Personnel Management released a new look and functionality to USAJOBS in February. I recently contacted Michelle Earley, the USAJOBS Program Manager, to ask about the changes to USAJOBS and the data it provides. 1. What are","date" : "2016-03-30T10:00:36-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Google Will Rank ‘Mobile-Friendly’ Sites Even Higher Beginning in May","summary" : "Last year Google began changing their search ranking algorithm to direct mobile users to mobile-friendly sites, and they recently announced that beginning in May they will be implementing an update to focus even more exclusively on boosting mobile-friendly sites.","date" : "2016-03-29T11:55:41-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Check Your Refund Status AND Pay Your Taxes With IRS2Go","summary" : "IRS2Go, offered for Amazon, Android and iOS, is one of the oldest and arguably most popular government apps.","date" : "2016-03-10T11:27:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Does Content Syndication Work?","summary" : "You may have heard some chatter about syndication but thought to yourself—sounds good but does it really work? The answer is—Absolutely!! Here is your Proof NIH News in Health is a monthly newsletter that has recently been syndicated. Since syndication, the newsletter’s content can be found on multiple websites. These websites include state and local","date" : "2016-02-04T10:00:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"christen-geiler" : "Christen Geiler"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Retaining Your Mobile Audience Is Critical (and Difficult!) From Day 1","summary" : "How perfecting your day-1 experience for users is critical for retention.","date" : "2016-02-02T10:00:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"How FEMA Delivers Anytime, Anywhere Information During Disasters","summary" : "No one wants to feel helpless in an emergency situation. To provide tips and assistance anytime, anywhere, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) stepped up their mobile game. FEMA developed an SMS service and an app to engage with users while they’re on the go. The app is available on Android, Apple and Blackberry.","date" : "2016-01-28T10:00:42-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jenny-johnson" : "Jennifer Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: Improving the Federal Government Through Mobile Apps","summary" : "Federal agencies are doing well in fulfilling the 2012 Digital Government Strategy by providing numerous mobile apps for American citizens.","date" : "2016-01-27T10:00:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Making Your Agency Apps Secure","summary" : "Security and privacy are part of the six Mobile User Experience Guidelines developed by the MobileGov Community of Practice.","date" : "2016-01-21T13:21:09-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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"security" : "Security"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Will Phablets Dominate the Mobile Market in 2017?","summary" : "Phablets, once mocked for their large size, may be the next big form factor dominating mobile devices, if new data from the holiday season is any indication. Flurry Mobile, part of Yahoo’s mobile analytics division, published two reports about phablet devices at the beginning of the new year, showing their continued growth and that people use","date" : "2016-01-19T10:17:15-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"A 2016 Look Ahead: What\u0026#8217;s on the Horizon for Digital Government?","summary" : "With January, and the tearing off of the old calendar, comes the annual taking stock of where we’ve been in the last year and where we can go in the year ahead. So for this month’s editorial theme, we’re taking a closer look at what we think 2016 will bring for digital government—from mobile and","date" : "2016-01-12T16:58:52-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
"accessibility" : "Accessibility",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: 10 Mobile, Government and Tech Trends for 2016","summary" : "As we move into 2016, here are 10 trends I foresee flourishing around mobile, technology and government: The mobile-majority tipping point in government. Many agencies are already past this point, but as a whole, government websites are still desktop-majority, with 66% of people accessing federal websites via desktop and 34% on mobile. In 2016, the double-digit mobile","date" : "2016-01-12T11:00:37-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Digging Into the Data of Our Customer Survey","summary" : "As a follow-up to the recent post about our annual customer satisfaction survey, we wanted to dig into the data and share some of the overall results to give you some more insights into how we’re using your feedback to improve our programs and services.","date" : "2016-01-05T09:00:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rflagg" : "Rachel Flagg"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"How ABMC Got Started with Mobile App Development","summary" : "The MobileGov Community of Practice put together six Mobile User Experience Guidelines to help keep mobile users in love with their apps. DigitalGov University hosted a webinar in which the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) highlighted two of these guidelines.","date" : "2015-12-31T10:00:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jenny-johnson" : "Jennifer Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Providing Anytime, Anywhere Government Through Mobile App Competitions","summary" : "Agencies have used an open data competition approach in their quest to provide anytime, anywhere government. For example, in 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted the Apps for the Environment challenge and has a hub for apps created using EPA data. Here’s an update on challenges hosted by other agencies: The National Institute of Standards","date" : "2015-12-29T10:30:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: Air and Space Museum Launches New Mobile App into the Frontier of STEM Education","summary" : "The Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum just released a new educational mobile app, Mobile Missions. From the website: “Find out if you are cut out for a career in aerospace with our free mobile app, Mobile Missions. Take our quiz to discover the best aerospace career for you. Explore objects from our collection related to","date" : "2015-12-23T10:00:58-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Adobe Moves Beyond Flash","summary" : "Half a decade since Steve Jobs declared war on Adobe Flash and refused to support it on Apple’s mobile and tablet devices, Flash is finally losing its crown as one of the stand-alone products of Adobe. In the announcement, Adobe said, “Flash has played a leading role in bringing new capabilities to the Web. From","date" : "2015-12-08T10:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Facebook, TV and How to Reach Millennials and Hispanics","summary" : "How do you capture millennial and Hispanic eyes? Through their hands. (More specifically: their mobile devices, and the social apps within!). AdAge recently analyzed a study from Nielsen’s Homescan panel which found that in a typical month, 12.2% of millennials can only be reached through TV (looking at the top 10 networks only) versus 14.2%","date" : "2015-12-01T11:00:55-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone and Tablet Adoption Grows While Other Digital Devices Slump","summary" : "Pew released a recent report tracking trends in digital device ownership and found smartphones and tablets have continued to grow in recent years, while other devices have stalled.","date" : "2015-11-17T10:00:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Post Office Whenever and Wherever—USPS Mobile® App","summary" : "Technology has become integral to our lives, and now many of these familiar postal services are available at our fingertips on our mobile devices.","date" : "2015-11-12T11:10:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Making Federal Employment Accessible Through DOD’s CAP App","summary" : "The Department of Defense CAP app allows U.S. government employees to use their mobile devices to look up information about services and resources.","date" : "2015-11-05T10:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: The Joys of the Content Template","summary" : "Many of us depend a great deal on subject matter experts (SMEs) to generate content that will eventually end up on our site. These are men and women that have critical knowledge to share with our audiences, and it is our job to make it match our various editorial and content guidelines. Using a simple","date" : "2015-11-02T10:13:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tyrus-manuel" : "Tyrus Manuel"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Skin \u0026 Bones Come Alive with Smithsonian App","summary" : "The night air is cool and crisp, the autumn leaves are falling, your costume is ready, jack-o-lanterns carved, lights dimmed, candy in the basket—what else do you need to make “All Hallows’ Eve trick or treat” complete? Some eerie music, a spine","date" : "2015-10-29T11:12:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: Create an App for Employees with Disabilities","summary" : "Have you worked with an employee with a disability? Are you an employee with a disability? Then, you know the unique challenges of the average workplace that able-bodied colleagues may never experience. Workplace challenges could be overcome with accommodations such as larger computer monitor displays, wheelchair-accessible office furniture or a voice reader. In some cases,","date" : "2015-10-28T10:00:42-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
"accessibility" : "Accessibility",
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Users Spend Most of Their Time in Social Apps","summary" : "ComScore released a new 2015 U.S. Mobile App report tracking native mobile app usage among adults over 18 years old, and it reinforced a lot of the trends we’ve been reporting on DigitalGov.","date" : "2015-10-27T10:00:58-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Texting is Another Way to Make Mobile Moments","summary" : "There are several things federal agencies need to think about in the mobile space. Is my website responsive, so that consumers can view it on any device (desktop/laptop, tablet, smartphone)? Do I have mobile apps that fill citizen needs? But does texting have a place in the U.S. government, as we strive to serve citizens","date" : "2015-10-26T14:34:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Is Your Site Mobile-Friendly?","summary" : "What is mobile-friendly? Mobile-friendly simply means your visitors can use phones and tablets to visit your website and have a user-friendly experience. Many of us get toward the end of mobile site development and really do not know if what we created is “mobile-friendly.” We think we have followed all of the mobile best practices","date" : "2015-10-23T11:00:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"david-fern" : "David Fern"},"topics" : {
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"usability" : "Usability"
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},{"title" :"Know Your Molluscs with the Terrestrial Mollusc Key","summary" : "The Terrestrial Mollusc Key mobile app from the Department of Agriculture is specifically designed to assist in the identification of adult terrestrial slugs and snails of agricultural importance.","date" : "2015-10-22T13:00:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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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" : "2015-10-21T13:22:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
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"customer-experience" : "Customer experience",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: Highlights from 300 Federal Mobile Moments","summary" : "DigitalGov’s theme this month is mobile moments, which explores the impact of mobile applications in the federal government.","date" : "2015-10-21T11:00:10-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Focus on Mobile Performance to Provide Better Mobile Moments","summary" : "The New York Times recently published a report evaluating the cost of mobile ads on news websites and found that on many of the major sites, the ads were taking as much bandwidth and time as the content (if not more, in some cases). This comes after the recent hubub over Apple starting to allow","date" : "2015-10-20T11:32:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Is Crowdsourcing the Future of Mobile Design and Development?","summary" : "NASA recently announced the winners of a smartwatch app interface competition. A Canadian duo won the design competition, and NASA’s plan is to build the app with 2016 funding to have it available for astronauts to use when they are aboard the International Space Station. This is the first government smartwatch app development we’ve talked about","date" : "2015-10-13T14:18:42-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions",
"crowdsourcing-and-citizen-science" : "Crowdsourcing and citizen science",
"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"National Cancer Institute\u0026#8217;s Smokefree Tools","summary" : "The National Cancer Institute has developed a triple threat to help users stop smoking for good with an app, responsively-designed website, and SMS program to help lead the way to a healthier life.","date" : "2015-10-08T02:03:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jenny-johnson" : "Jennifer Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Is Your Agency Winning Its Mobile Moments?","summary" : "Someone has a problem they are trying to solve. They pull out their mobile device and find a solution. They move onto something else. That’s a mobile moment. Organizations are living and dying by their mobile moments, and a few government agencies are winning theirs. We’ve written before how the Transportation Security Administration is winning","date" : "2015-10-07T16:16:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Data Briefing: White House Asks Data Scientists and App Developers to Help Suicide Prevention Efforts","summary" : "This article describes some of the data sources that could be leveraged for building data analysis and apps to aid in the suicide prevention effort.","date" : "2015-10-07T10:09:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Rise of Apps, The Decline of TV","summary" : "Move over, 60 inch widescreens—for the first time ever, U.S. consumers are spending more time in mobile apps than on TV. An article from Flurry Insights, the blog for Yahoo’s mobile analytics service, covered the recent viewing trends. Apps are now the top media channel in the United States: on average, people spend 198 minutes on","date" : "2015-10-06T10:00:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: Content Management System Considerations","summary" : "These days you couldn’t be faulted for thinking your content management system (CMS) choices are limited to two open source systems and maybe an enterprise-level offering that no one uses anymore. And while it’s true that for the public sector the popular open source options are extremely attractive from a cost standpoint, if nothing else,","date" : "2015-10-05T11:24:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tyrus-manuel" : "Tyrus Manuel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: How Much Does It Cost to Go Mobile?","summary" : "A penny saved is a penny earned. But spending your pennies on mobile development is necessary to meet 21st century needs.","date" : "2015-09-29T01:00:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Content is King for Mobile Apps","summary" : "Yahoo’s mobile analytics service, Flurry, released a new and provocative report about mobile apps versus mobile browser usage, in which they found audiences are spending almost an hour more with their mobile phones than last year.","date" : "2015-09-22T11:00:51-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Better Air, Better Student Performance: Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools from EPA","summary" : "Our children spend a lot of time at school. Multiple studies have shown a direct correlation between the learning environment and student behavior. Poorly maintained school facilities with run-down buildings, broken windows, etc., lead to disorderly conduct in students, affect their ability to concentrate and learn, affect teachers, pose health risks, and reduce overall community satisfaction.","date" : "2015-09-17T10:00:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Speed Matters: Optimizing Your Website For Maximum Performance","summary" : "During a recent DigitalGov University webinar, Jeremy Vanderlan, Technical Deputy for AIDS.gov, explained how even fractions of a second can have a negative impact on a user’s impression of your website.","date" : "2015-09-16T10:00:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Mobile Internet is Dead. Long Live the Mobile Internet.","summary" : "Benedict Evans, a leading mobile analyst with the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, published a provocative post last week about the death of the mobile Internet. He details the history of the mobile Web and posits that the mobile Internet is the Internet now. The desktop version of the Internet audience is smaller","date" : "2015-09-15T13:20:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Day 100: The Great Federal Mobile Product Hunt","summary" : "A long time ago in a federal agency building far, far away on F Street… the Great Federal Mobile Product Hunt launched at the DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit in Washington, DC.","date" : "2015-09-10T01:09:17-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"courtney-greenley" : "Courtney Greenley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"\u0026#8220;Congress Creates the Bill of Rights\u0026#8221; from National Archives","summary" : "Whether it’s the 800-year-old legacy of the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution or the more recent Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, all of these documents are powerful","date" : "2015-09-03T10:00:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Content: Less is More","summary" : "With 14 test cycles under our belt, the Federal CrowdSource Mobile Testing Program has heard one recurring theme from our testers—”there’s too much information!” While both desktop monitor and smartphone screen sizes are growing, there is still no comparison. At our desks, many of us are using a 24 inch (or even bigger) monitor. How big is your","date" : "2015-08-31T13:00:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"david-fern" : "David Fern"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Rebuild Healthy Homes from HUD","summary" : "We all know it is virtually impossible to prevent natural phenomena such as hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis etc., and we cannot easily avoid these inevitable geological and climatic incidences, as they are typically unpredictable and occur swiftly.","date" : "2015-08-27T11:10:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: Modular Design and Structured Content","summary" : "Several months ago I discussed the concept of a world without Web pages and the importance of structured content and thinking about content, not pages. This week, I’m taking that discussion further by discussing the importance of modularity in Web design and how that complements our efforts to create more structured and reusable data. Break","date" : "2015-08-24T14:07:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tyrus-manuel" : "Tyrus Manuel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Three New Mobile Apps Honor Fallen Veterans Overseas","summary" : "The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) released three new mobile apps this summer to honor fallen veterans in overseas cemeteries in Belgium, France, and Italy.","date" : "2015-08-20T11:00:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Rise in “Mobile Addicts”","summary" : "Yahoo’s mobile analytics division, Flurry, released an interesting report, in July, comparing mobile usage among three distinct types of users around the world based on how frequently they launch mobile applications each day: Regular Users, Super Users and Mobile Addicts. According to Flurry, of","date" : "2015-08-18T11:10:23-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"What Is Mobile Device Compatibility Testing?","summary" : "In most instances, your hardware and software are developed independently but are expected to function properly together. For example, when a Web application is developed in HTML, it is expected to function properly on an Apple computer using Safari as well as a Windows computer using Internet Explorer. This sounds simple, but there are thousands","date" : "2015-08-14T11:10:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"david-fern" : "David Fern"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NIST Hosts Reference Data Challenge to Create Mobile Apps","summary" : "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants YOU to help them build native apps. NIST launched the Reference Data Challenge to improve the way the agency shares scientific reference data. They want third party developers from around the country to build native apps that aggregate and improve the usability of free NIST datasets and resources.","date" : "2015-08-13T10:00:09-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Impact of ‘Mobilegeddon’ on Non Mobile-Friendly Sites","summary" : "Adobe released its quarterly Adobe Digital Index report this month, which showed websites that aren’t mobile optimized are seeing more than double-digit drops in traffic from Google’s organic search referrals. This is after the leading search engine announced it would start penalizing websites, after April 21st, that weren’t optimized for mobile—also called “Mobilegeddon.” Microsoft’s Bing search engine also","date" : "2015-08-11T10:00:11-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USDA Puts Hunger on Vacation This Summer","summary" : "The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service is helping to put hunger on vacation this summer with their Summer Meal Site Finder, a Web and mobile tool that will provide the location of summer meal sites to ensure low-income children continue to receive nutritious meals while school is out. Having this","date" : "2015-08-06T13:00:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Monthly Theme: At Your Service","summary" : "In this digital age, we know customers expect their government interactions to be on the same level as their interactions with the private sector. Agencies are always striving to improve the quality of their services to meet their customers’ needs. So too in our office, where we use the feedback, you, our agency customers, provide","date" : "2015-08-05T10:16:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Web Audiences Abandon Sites with Interstitial Ads","summary" : "David Morell, a software engineer with Google, posted an interesting case study from the tech giant, sharing data about how users interacted with interstitials (ie webpages displayed before or after an expected content page) on their website. Their analysis showed that 69% of users completely abandoned the page and their original intent after being shown an interstitial. Interstitials take many","date" : "2015-08-04T11:18:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Help Us Add Resources to the Updated Mobile User Experience Guidelines!","summary" : "Government agencies need to make sure their mobile websites and native apps don’t become one of the estimated billions of applications that end up in the app graveyard. The need for digital products to work better is not new in the federal government. Resources like the Digital Playbook and Public Participation Playbook have had impact","date" : "2015-07-31T13:10:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"An Overview of Digital Communities","summary" : "Digital communities of practice come in many stripes. DigitalGov communities span eight (and counting) focus areas and have thousands of members, but strong collaborations exist in all corners of government. In honor of this month’s communities theme, we are offering a list of communities that foster connections and strengthen the digital capabilities of federal agencies.","date" : "2015-07-31T11:10:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USGS is Asking If You Felt It: Latest Earthquakes","summary" : "Having experienced everything from little tremors to violent shaking, I know what it is like to live in an earthquake zone. Hiding below a large table or under the sturdy doorframe, and at times with the","date" : "2015-07-30T11:43:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nirmala-ramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Community Rock Star Round Up","summary" : "Around this month’s Communities Theme, the DigitalGov team thought we’d round up your community rock stars. These are people in your communities who’ve gone above and beyond, who’ve contributed content, organized events, participated in developing toolkits and more.","date" : "2015-07-30T10:00:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: People Over 55 Soon to Be Mobile-Majority Users","summary" : "In July, comScore released a research paper, The Global Mobile Report: How Multi-Platform Audiences & Engagement Compare in the U.S., Canada, UK and Beyond, covering a lot of areas from smartphone penetration to Android vs. Apple preferences.","date" : "2015-07-28T10:00:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Free the Data: FEMA’s New Data Visualization Tool","summary" : "FEMA collects data from disasters. We look at various hazards over time, and a question we get a lot when we’re trying to talk about what can happen is what has happened previously? Providing","date" : "2015-07-24T11:00:54-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"craig-fugate" : "Craig Fugate"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Explore Space with Smithsonian’s Chandra X-Ray App","summary" : "We continue our celebration of American history and legacy this July 2015 with the New Horizons spacecraft’s dramatic flight past the icy dwarf planet Pluto and its moons—momentous in space exploration. Just think about it—New Horizons, a NASA space probe traveled over 3 billion miles to","date" : "2015-07-23T11:57:23-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nirmala-ramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: GOV.UK Weighs in on Mobile User Habits","summary" : "England’s Government Digital Service (similar to our own U.S. Digital Services and 18F) did a study of how content on their websites is consumed on mobile and non-mobile devices and learned several key points for a future-focused and","date" : "2015-07-21T10:00:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Safe Travels with TravWell","summary" : "Ahhh … Summer is here at last! It’s time for relaxing vacation! Whether you want to scale the peaks of Mount Everest, scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef, ride a camel in the deserts of Mongolia, or shop in Paris—it is time for a travel app.","date" : "2015-07-15T11:02:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nirmala-ramprasad" : "Nirmala Ramprasad"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Adults Use Mobile Devices Most of the Time","summary" : "Millennial Media released a new research report, Connected Consumers: Gaining Insights Across Screens, examining U.S. digital audiences from January 2014 until January 2015 with some interesting information that reinforces trends we’ve covered before.","date" : "2015-07-14T10:00:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Content Corner: Create Better Mobile Content","summary" : "All content needs to be developed with a mobile-first strategy, from headline choice to paragraph length. Although we are all now living in a post-mobilegeddon world, many of us are still implementing a mobile strategy. This strategy should consider several factors, including viewport size, cellular versus WiFi considerations, and load times. It should also include a","date" : "2015-07-13T11:00:23-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tyrus-manuel" : "Tyrus Manuel"},"topics" : {
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"data-visualization" : "Data visualization",
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},{"title" :"DAY 50: The Great Federal Mobile Product Hunt!","summary" : "An update on the Great Federal Mobile Product Hunt.","date" : "2015-07-09T10:55:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"courtney-greenley" : "Courtney Greenley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"2015 Customer Service Trends: a Mid-Year Update","summary" : "Earlier this year, we published 15 Government Customer Service Trends for 2015. We’re halfway through the year now—how are these trends holding up? 1. Centralized Customer Offices A few agencies have created centralized customer offices, while others question the need for a single organization that focuses on the customer. As the public’s overall satisfaction with","date" : "2015-07-08T10:00:36-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"martha-dorris" : "Martha Dorris"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Won\u0026#8217;t You Help Your Neighbor? Communities Theme Month on DigitalGov","summary" : "It’s a beautiful day in the DigitalGov neighborhood, and we want you to be our neighbor: no red sweater required. The strength of digital government depends on robust collaboration across agencies, offices, and disciplines. The virtual federal neighborhood collaborates through numerous communities of practice, each of which promotes the open exchange of ideas and resources.","date" : "2015-07-07T13:30:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Trends in CMS","summary" : "A Content Management System (CMS) allows people to easily publish, maintain and update information online. Choosing a CMS (or deciding whether you need one at all) is one that many agencies have faced. It’s not an easy choice because there are many solutions available to content managers. As government agencies, the majority of content we deliver is","date" : "2015-07-07T11:57:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdaniel" : "Kendrick Daniel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Celebrating American History with Federal Apps","summary" : "Summer is here, which means it is time for the biggest holiday of the summer—Fourth of July! Independence Day is a happy time of year: BBQs, picnics, pools, sunshine and fireworks. Of course, the foundation of our celebration is American history, and there are plenty of excellent federal apps focused on this area. The American","date" : "2015-07-02T13:00:51-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdaniel" : "Kendrick Daniel","awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Planning with a Purpose: 3 Reasons Why Agencies Created Native Apps","summary" : "Mobile. It’s here, and it’s here to stay! Agencies in all areas of government meet real world needs through mobile products. Creating effective mobile products requires planning, however. Agencies who have created native apps outlined three areas they considered in the mobile development process: strategy, business requirements and measuring value. Strategy Before creating a mobile","date" : "2015-07-01T10:10:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"byrhonda-lyons" : "Byrhonda Lyons"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Native App Push Notifications Drive Repeat Use","summary" : "Analytics company, Localytics, released a new report about mobile app retention rates from the past 4 years that agencies should heed when considering their needs for building native mobile apps, compared to mobile-friendly","date" : "2015-06-30T10:00:59-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Using Apps for Mental Healthcare","summary" : "Technology has opened new pathways for delivering health care, including mental health services. The National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), part of the Department of Defense, offers multiple apps that address health care for service members in a variety of ways. At a talk with","date" : "2015-06-25T13:00:22-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Government APIs in a Post-Apps World","summary" : "Take out your smartphone and count the number of apps that you have. How many of these apps do you use daily? What about the apps you use weekly? Do you have any apps that you installed but used only once? Any apps that you have never used? What kind of apps do you have?","date" : "2015-06-24T13:45:41-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Global Efforts Underway to Update Mobile Accessibility Guidelines","summary" : "Federal agencies do not get a free pass on accessibility for mobile—as we stated earlier this month, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act applies to ALL information and communication technology (ICT). Luckily, there are a number of organizations working on guidelines and practices to help the private and public sectors create accessible mobile websites and","date" : "2015-06-23T10:00:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NOAA\u0026#8217;s CrowdMag App: Citizen Science on the Go","summary" : "The rise in mobile device usage has created a rise in expectations: the public wants new and innovative interactions with all organizations, including government. Incorporating social media in mobile websites and native apps is one way federal agencies have increased public interaction. Six agencies have leveraged native app functionality for crowdsourcing purposes. The National Oceanic","date" : "2015-06-18T10:00:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"StudentAid.gov: Using Data to Empower Borrowers","summary" : "It’s been a while, but in previous posts, I described what we’ve learned from operating StudentAid.gov, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid website created to educate students and borrowers about the federal student aid programs and process and help them make informed decisions about financing college and career school. We first","date" : "2015-05-27T13:10:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brenda-wensil" : "Brenda Wensil"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile-Friendly Park Websites on NPS.gov","summary" : "Park websites on NPS.gov from A (Acadia) to Z (Zion) are now mobile-friendly. Visitors using phones and tablets to visit national park websites now have a user-friendly experience to enhance their virtual visits. Previously, visitors using mobile devices saw a smaller version of the website scaled to","date" : "2015-04-30T10:00:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"todd-edgar" : "Todd Edgar"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Top Five Findings for API Developers from Pew Research Center","summary" : "The Pew Research Center just released a report on how Americans view open government data. The following findings were based on a November to December 2014 survey of 3,212 adults. Two-thirds of Americans use the Internet or an app to connect with the government. According to Pew, 37% use the Internet to connect with the","date" : "2015-04-29T10:00:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Federal App Development Trends","summary" : "Mobile apps meet real world needs. App development is not a homogenous process, however. Apple and Android devices are overwhelmingly dominant in device ownership and app development. So, we examined the Federal Mobile Apps Directory for iOS and Android offerings. We noticed a predominance","date" : "2015-04-28T10:00:27-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Checking in on the DoD Mobile Apps Gallery","summary" : "We’re switching our style up this week in salute to our military friends across the Department of Defense. Faithful readers of DigitalGov know that each Thursday we profile an awesome app from the","date" : "2015-04-23T10:07:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Making a Difference One Microtask at a Time","summary" : "I recently found an app that provides a great service through crowdsourcing. Be My Eyes connects visually-impaired people with volunteers. Using the smartphone’s camera, the volunteers can perform tasks such as reading an expiration date or helping someone navigate unfamiliar surroundings. This is not a federal app, but I wanted to highlight it to demonstrate how","date" : "2015-04-22T10:00:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"crowdsourcing-and-citizen-science" : "Crowdsourcing and citizen science",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
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},{"title" :"NCI: Reaching the Public via SMS to Change Behaviors","summary" : "SMS messages are an excellent way to reach audiences. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) saw SMS messages as an opportunity to reach the public for the implementation of their Mobile Health Behavioral Intervention Programs. NCI has 15 SMS based programs, including HealthyYouTxt, a program designed to help users live a healthier lifestyle, and SmokeFreeTxt, a","date" : "2015-04-16T11:10:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdaniel" : "Kendrick Daniel"},"topics" : {
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"customer-experience" : "Customer experience",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Mobilegeddon: Government Edition","summary" : "Much is being said and written about the coming Mobilegeddon/Mopocalypse on April 21st—the day Google’s ranking algorithm will begin boosting results for mobile-friendly sites and penalizing mobile-unfriendly sites. While some agency websites are mobile-friendly, a great many are not. We will do well to pay attention—almost 25% of traffic on government websites is coming from","date" : "2015-04-15T14:15:42-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"dmccleskey" : "Dawn Pointer McCleskey"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"plain-language" : "Plain language",
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"search-engine-optimization" : "Search engine optimization",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: 10 Tips for Mobile Live Streaming","summary" : "Mobile video is starting to hit its second wave for both consumption and creation, and government agencies can prepare now to ride this new channel for mobile and social engagement. Fueled by mobile bandwidth and cellular stability steadily increasing and consumers’ comfort","date" : "2015-04-14T11:10:55-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"New USGS App Helps Save the Piping Plovers!","summary" : "iPlover is a new app from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for data collection about habitats on coastal beaches and the environment surrounding them. That sounds like a really difficult and important task, but luckily for us, the app is designed for trained and vetted professionals. It is an example of another federal crowdsourcing app, but for experts. The","date" : "2015-04-09T10:00:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Multiple Languages, Single Platforms: the World Digital Library","summary" : "Multilingual does not always mean multiple accounts or websites. Increasingly, multilingual content is delivered in an integrated way, with two (or more!) languages delivered on the same website, app, or social media platform. The World Digital Library (WDL) is one example of how multiple languages can be incorporated on single platforms. The WDL is a","date" : "2015-04-09T02:29:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: 40% of Smartphone Users Look up Government Information","summary" : "The Pew Research Center released a deep research dive into U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015 that provided three big ideas and data points for government agencies to consider when planning their digital strategies.","date" : "2015-04-07T10:00:52-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"CareerOneStop’s Newest Online Resources: Targeted to User Needs","summary" : "When the Employment and Training Administration’s CareerOneStop team embarked on a redesign of the site’s online career, training, and job resources, they didn’t dive right into the technical work. Instead, they embraced a user-centered approach that focused on the user experience (UX). Focusing on UX means taking a step back","date" : "2015-04-02T10:17:09-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kim-vitelli" : "Kim Vitelli","michael-harding" : "Michael Harding"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Market Growth Makes Mobile-Friendly a Must","summary" : "ComScore reported last week that smartphones now make up a whopping 75% of the mobile market. That’s up from 65% just one year ago. This means three-quarters of Americans over the age of 13 now have smartphones, and they are accessing government services with them more and more. This is an undeniable fact because earlier this","date" : "2015-03-31T13:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Booking a Discount Bus Ticket? Check Carrier Safety Records with QCMobile","summary" : "The new app from the Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration called “QCMobile” empowers U.S. motorists to make safety their highest priority on the roadways this spring. This is a continued theme in DOT’s mobile strategy, as they have also recently released the SaferRide app. QCMobile (QC stands","date" : "2015-03-26T11:56:54-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Web Metadata Publishing Using XML","summary" : "Metadata for website content is usually managed as part of the editorial process when documents are created and published with content management systems. There may be another source for this metadata, especially in regulatory agencies: internal databases that reference Web content in support of record keeping processes. These databases may contain public and non-public information","date" : "2015-03-23T11:00:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bob-rand" : "Bob Rand"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data",
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},{"title" :"Structured Content in Government: How HHS and NCI Are Getting Started","summary" : "Metadata, tagging, content modeling … they’re not identical concepts, but they’re driven by the same basic principle: when you structure your digital information, it can be more easily searched, reused, connected, shared, and analyzed.","date" : "2015-03-20T09:50:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"hannah-gladfelter-rubin" : "Hannah Gladfelter Rubin"},"topics" : {
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"open-data" : "Open data",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Google to Implement Mobile-Friendly Rankings","summary" : "As the use of smartphones continues to grow, it has become even more important for websites to be mobile-friendly. Google has been aware of this trend for quite some time. In response to this trend, Google made","date" : "2015-03-03T10:00:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdaniel" : "Kendrick Daniel"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"6 Digital Media Trends for 2015: You Can Make Them Accessible!","summary" : "Resolutions and predictions abound this time of year. If you’ve already lost the fight to finally give up sardine ice cream, you can always resolve to maintain or improve your digital media accessibility. Some people say that accessibility and Section 508 compliance squashes","date" : "2015-01-28T02:30:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"angela-hooker" : "Angela Hooker"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Marketing on the Rise","summary" : "Marketers are increasingly using SMS, push notifications, mobile apps, location-based functionality and other mobile-first techniques to reach constituents. That’s according to a recent article from Marketingland.com, which provided an overview of the mobile trends presented in Salesforce’s 2015 State of Marketing Report. The report was based on a survey of 5,000 marketers in 10 countries. Some","date" : "2015-01-27T11:10:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"SaferRide App Could Save Your Life","summary" : "One death every 52 minutes. That’s how frequently someone died in crashes involving a drunk driver in the U.S. in 2013—10,076 deaths in total. While that number represents a 2.5% reduction in deaths from the previous year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is offering a new mobile app—called SaferRide—to","date" : "2015-01-22T10:00:03-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Spanish Language Mobile Apps from Gobierno.USA.gov","summary" : "In mobile app development, if you aren’t making it multilingual, you miss providing anytime, anywhere information and services to important mobile-only audiences. Today, we’re highlighting five Spanish language apps from the Spanish Version of the USA.gov Federal Mobile Apps Directory.","date" : "2015-01-15T11:10:45-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends On Tuesday: Responsive Web Design Implementation Happening Piecemeal","summary" : "Approximately 18% of websites have implemented Responsive Web Design, according to the audit of websites Guy Podjarny completed in November. That’s more than 7% growth since his previous audit in January 2014. That number may seem low with the popularity of Responsive Web Design and the preference of mobile websites from users, but implementing responsive Web","date" : "2015-01-13T12:02:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Half of Online Americans Don’t Know What a Privacy Policy Is","summary" : "Federal agencies are required by law to use privacy policies on their digital properties that explain how they use the data they collect about users and visitors. This ensures that these users and visitors know what the government is doing with their data.","date" : "2014-12-23T09:00:17-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
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},{"title" :"Acronyms, Army-isms and Much More: ROTC Handbook App Explains Cadet Life","summary" : "Have a potential future cadet in the family? Deciding whether the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program is right for you? Already in the program? Study up on the Army ROTC program before you or someone you know steps foot in the classroom in a crisp uniform. Download the ROTC Handbook from the U.S.","date" : "2014-12-18T10:00:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"10 Years of Digital Government—A Retrospective","summary" : "In December of 2004, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued the first Policies for Federal Public Websites. Over the past decade, we’ve seen technology completely transform how government delivers information and services to the public. On this 10-year anniversary, we’re taking a walk down memory lane to recap some of the pivotal moments","date" : "2014-12-18T03:09:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rflagg" : "Rachel Flagg"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Users Still Use the Phone for Talking","summary" : "Smartphones are changing how organizations do business—they are more than just smart Web browsers. As I noted last week, purchases from mobile phones have dramatically increased during the holiday shopping season. The infographic from IfByPhone demonstrates how people are using","date" : "2014-12-16T10:57:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Crowdsourced Digital Citizen Services Summit","summary" : "In May 2015, we are hosting the second DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit. This round we are looking to you—federal innovators across government—to help build the agenda.","date" : "2014-12-15T10:00:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Defense Finance Accounting Services Use HHS Code to Make Mobile-Friendly Tables","summary" : "Government mobile code developed to help make tables mobile-friendly in one agency has now been used in another agency’s mobile efforts. Last month, Clair Koroma told DigitalGov readers about code that the Department of Health and Human Services had developed to make website tables mobile-friendly and then HHS","date" : "2014-12-11T11:14:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Save on Holiday Travels with FuelEconomy.gov Web Services","summary" : "We are in the middle of the holidays, and that means much driving to visit friends and relatives. I was just in Kentucky this past weekend where I spent a total of eight hours driving. I am sure many of you will spend even more time driving in the next three weeks. So, where do","date" : "2014-12-10T12:54:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Sales Rise Substantially During Holiday Shopping Season","summary" : "Were you surfing the pre-Black Friday online sales while waiting for the Thanksgiving turkey to appear on the table? Turns out, you weren’t alone. “Online sales for Thanksgiving 2014 grew 12.2%, with mobile sales accounting for 74% of that traffic,” according to Mobile Marketing Watch. To put that in context, mobile sales grew 26.1% percent","date" : "2014-12-09T10:14:32-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Find Fuel During Disasters with Lantern Live App","summary" : "Who to call? Where to meet? What to pack? How to find fuel? Make sure your personal disaster preparedness plan includes how to quickly find functioning gas stations in your area with help from the Department of Energy’s Lantern","date" : "2014-12-04T10:00:58-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: America’s New First Screen","summary" : "It has finally happened: Mobile has bumped TV as America’s first screen. Recent analysis from Flurry Analytics, which included data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, found that time spent on mobile devices grew in the U.S. by 9.3% to 2 hrs and 57 minutes, while time spent watching TV has remained flat at 2 hrs and 48","date" : "2014-12-02T10:00:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Avoid an Awkward Family Thanksgiving with the Federal Apps Mobile Directory","summary" : "Are you like me? Do you consistently eat too much on Thanksgiving to avoid invasive family conversations that have a high probability of 1) turning awkward and 2) forcing you to abandon a sworn blood oath to never again reveal details of your private life to loved ones? Don’t be like me. It’s your holiday,","date" : "2014-11-26T12:00:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: What Are You Asking Your Phone?","summary" : "What’s the weather like? When does the next movie start? What time does Target close? These are just a few questions that I may ask my phone on any given day. According to a recent Mobile Voice Study led by Google, I’m not the only having conversations with my phone. 55% of teens aged 13-18 use voice","date" : "2014-11-25T10:00:33-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Join the Global Climate Change Conversation with NASA\u0026#8217;s Earth Now","summary" : "Wanna join the global climate change conversation? Arm yourself with real-time facts about Earth’s vital signs from NASA’s Earth Now mobile app. Earth Now is an app that visualizes recent global climate data, including surface air temperature, carbon dioxide, carbon","date" : "2014-11-20T10:00:52-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Speed Matters When Measuring Responsive Web Design Performance Load Times","summary" : "In the mobile world, every second matters. Mobile users are a finicky bunch. They want their information anytime, anywhere and quickly. As members of the MobileGov Community of Practice have noted last year, mobile user experience is about emotion. If that emotion is not happy, you will lose the user. For this month’s DigitalGov user","date" : "2014-11-18T10:00:48-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"ICE Expands Reach of App Designed to Locate Child Predators","summary" : "Catching child predators? There’s an app for that, and it’s expanding its reach to Android smartphones. Operation Predator—the first U.S. federal law enforcement app designed to seek the public’s help with identifying and locating fugitive and unknown suspected child predators—is now","date" : "2014-11-13T10:15:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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"multilingual" : "Multilingual"
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},{"title" :"Get More Health Content for Your Websites, Apps, and Social Media","summary" : "Several federal agencies and offices have worked together to create a free and easy way for public health partners to incorporate our Web content, images, video, data, and infographics into other sites, apps, and social media. Through digital media syndication, the science-based resources of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and","date" : "2014-11-10T11:05:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"christen-geiler" : "Christen Geiler"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"multimedia" : "Multimedia"
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},{"title" :"Rail Crossing Locator App Now Available on a Second Platform","summary" : "You don’t need to be a rail buff to want to download the Federal Railroad Administration Rail Crossing Locator app. Parents, outdoor enthusiasts, emergency responders, school officials, motorists and many others will find value in locating area highway-rail crossings. The aim of the app is public safety and the Department of Transportation","date" : "2014-11-06T10:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Brainstorming Ideas for Apps","summary" : "Data.gov has 130,000+ datasets (as of November 3, 2014) many of which are designed for application developers. In previous columns, I’ve showcased some of the great applications built using federal APIs. Have you wondered where the idea for an app came from? Some developers start with an idea and then look for the API that","date" : "2014-11-05T13:49:09-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Phablets to Top Tablets in 2015?","summary" : "Is it a phone or is it a tablet? The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that “phablets,” the popular term for smartphones with screen sizes from 5.5 to less than 7 inches, will outship portable PCs this year and tablets in 2015. Specifically, total phablet volume will top 318 million units, surpassing the 233 million","date" : "2014-11-04T11:10:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Keeping Peace Corps Volunteers Healthy, One Text at a Time","summary" : "Today, refilling your medicine cabinet with bandages and over the counter medicine from your local drugstore may seem like a trivial task, but for Peace Corps volunteers working in remote villages around the world, this task can be much more challenging. As we take steps to forge a 21st century","date" : "2014-11-03T13:53:23-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brian-forde" : "Brian Forde","carrie-hessler-radelet" : "Carrie Hessler-Radelet"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-source" : "Open source"
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},{"title" :"What\u0026#8217;s Happening with the Internet of Things?","summary" : "No Mobile Gov Month on DigitalGov would be complete without an update on the Internet of Things. Regardless if you’re talking wearables, smart homes, sensors or any other connected device, your current mobile approaches will be impacted—as will your social media, user experience and data strategies. When we last visited the topic in April, discussion","date" : "2014-10-31T12:32:33-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management"
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},{"title" :"HHS Conquers Tables in a Responsive Design","summary" : "This year, we moved HHS.gov to a responsive template to ensure that users accessing our site in a mobile environment had the best possible experience. Our department faced several challenges in moving a site the size of HHS.gov into a responsive template and one of those challenges surrounded our need to make tables work in","date" : "2014-10-30T10:00:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"clair-koroma" : "Clair Koroma"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Open and API-Driven Federal Mobile App Registration","summary" : "Thanks to the power of open data and APIs, federal agencies can now register their mobile native apps and websites on the Federal Mobile Products Registry and have them appear on the USA.gov Federal Mobile Apps Directory (formerly USA.gov Apps Gallery).","date" : "2014-10-29T01:44:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Open and Structured Content Models Workshop Recap","summary" : "People consume government information in a variety of ways: through agency websites, of course, but increasingly through social media, search engines, and mobile apps, whether developed by agencies or third parties. To make sure the information is available seamlessly, accurately, and consistently from one setting to another,","date" : "2014-10-27T14:24:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"hannah-gladfelter-rubin" : "Hannah Gladfelter Rubin","jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Web Design Changes? Let the Metrics be Your Guide","summary" : "On September 6, 2013 at 11:27 p.m., EDT., viewers tuned in through the Internet to watch NASA launch its Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. As viewers logged onto the website, something unusual happened. For the first time, metrics indicated that NASA.gov’s mobile users outpaced their desktop users. 93 percent of their viewers","date" : "2014-10-23T12:42:56-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"byrhonda-lyons" : "Byrhonda Lyons"},"topics" : {
"analytics" : "Analytics",
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Responsive Web Design Challenges Webinar Recap","summary" : "A website redesign is never an easy task, but when responsiveness is one of your redesign’s key goals, special considerations come into play that can present unique challenges. In the September webinar on Responsive Web Design Challenges in Government, we heard from","date" : "2014-10-21T10:00:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ellen-arnold-losey" : "Ellen Arnold Losey","debra-harris" : "Debra Harris"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Welcome to Mobile Gov Month on DigitalGov","summary" : "What’s your mobile itch? A long time ago at a workshop not so far away…we asked the 40 federal government innovators who had released native apps this question. We wanted to know their biggest barriers, challenges, frustrations to building anytime, anywhere government. Their generosity in telling","date" : "2014-10-20T12:26:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Where\u0026#8217;s the Beef? USDA App Serves Up Inspection Information","summary" : "Want to know where the food you’re eating was produced? Here’s a handy trick before you head out to the grocery store: Download the Meat, Poultry & Egg Product Inspection Directory (MPI Directory) app produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. All containers of meat, poultry and","date" : "2014-10-16T10:08:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdowney" : "Kevin Downey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Are QR Codes Still Relevant?","summary" : "Recently, I was designing new outreach materials and needed a way to connect this offline collateral with my agency’s digital content. Using a QR (or Quick Response) code immediately came to mind, followed by the question, “Are QR codes still relevant?” Opinions differ on their utility and I couldn’t find any objective data on how","date" : "2014-10-06T16:55:55-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"No More Beta in Congress.gov\u0026#8217;s Responsive Website","summary" : "Congress.gov ushered in the new fiscal year by removing the beta label from its URL two years after it launched. During this period, the Library of Congress not only extensively tested how the site would display on any device, but in a series of releases and enhancements, completely transformed the ability to find legislative information","date" : "2014-10-02T10:30:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Meet the Mobile Power Users","summary" : "U.S. Hispanics are ahead of the digital curve, according to an analysis of strategies of leading brands and forward-thinking marketers by Lisa Gevelber, Vice President of Americas Marketing. As we’ve noted before, Hispanics not only lead in adoption of new devices, they are also power users of mobile.","date" : "2014-09-30T11:21:09-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Saving the Whales With Just Your Smartphone: West Coast Edition","summary" : "Saving the whales just got easier for West Coasters with the latest version of the popular Whale Alert app. This free “feel-good” iPhone/iPad app, developed by NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and a long list of partners, now enables users on both U.S. coasts","date" : "2014-09-25T10:08:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"genevieve-contey" : "Genevieve Contey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Avoid the Testing Black Hole","summary" : "Remember the Golden Age of Web development? A time long ago when there were only five desktop browsers to support, a few different screen sizes and every user connected via broadband? Well, those days are over. With the advent of mobile Web","date" : "2014-09-23T10:00:42-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"CDC App Aids in Prevention of Neonatal Disease","summary" : "The Centers for Disease Control has added another tool to its suite of mobile applications for healthcare providers and clinicians. The “Prevent Group B Strep” app provides specific, timely guidance to obstetric and neonatal providers to aid in","date" : "2014-09-18T11:51:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Save the Date: Tech@State Mobile Diplomacy Event","summary" : "Sign up now to join fellow MobileGov Community of Practice members for Tech@State’s Mobile Diplomacy conference on Friday, October 3, 2014! Your attendance will let you participate in a variety of panels, ignite and breakout sessions about mobile development relevant to all digital government innovators. Members of the","date" : "2014-09-17T13:57:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Mobile Tipping Point?","summary" : "The International Data Corporation (IDC) is forecasting a strong outlook for smartphone sales during the remaining months of 2014. So, what might this mobile-driven world look like?","date" : "2014-09-16T14:39:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Strategy Pivot Yields Results: DigitalGov.Gov Six Months Later","summary" : "Six months ago, we launched this DigitalGov.gov platform to support federal agencies in delivering 21st century digital services and information to the public. It seems a good time to share some of the thinking that went into the development of the platform, and what we’ve learned so far.","date" : "2014-09-12T12:00:02-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza","gwynne-kostin" : "Gwynne Kostin"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"#PrepareAthon 2014: Disaster Preparedness in the Palm of Your Hand","summary" : "If there was one thing we learned on September 11, 2001, it’s that you can never be too prepared for a disaster of any magnitude. September is aptly named National Preparedness Month and the government’s #PrepareAthon campaign—led by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA)—is under way, culminating in National PrepareAthon! Day, September 30.","date" : "2014-09-11T10:00:58-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Are only 11% of Websites Responsive?","summary" : "Roughly 1 in 9 (11%) websites have adopted responsive Web design, according to research conducted by Guy Podjarny in January. While the number has risen in the last 7 months, I know you’re probably a little underwhelmed by that number. But if you are one of the agencies that have gone through the process of","date" : "2014-09-09T10:00:59-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USDA App Helps ID Your Potpourri","summary" : "Got a thing for dried botanicals? (No, not THOSE … but the stuff of fragrant sachets, decorative wreaths and glass jars filled with heavenly scents?) Before you discard your old potpourri or put some within reach of pets and children, you’ll want to take a look at","date" : "2014-08-28T10:00:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Mining the Rich Data Resources of NASA \u0026#8211; The International Space Apps Challenges","summary" : "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has an enormous collection of aerospace and science data sets. NASA missions and projects can create amazing amounts of data. One example: the Earth Observing System Data and Information System has collected enough information to fill the Library of Congress (Data.NASA.gov). A more recent example: the Solar Dynamics","date" : "2014-08-27T11:00:34-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Member Spotlight \u0026#8211; Jill James, Dept. of Education","summary" : "Welcome to the first edition of a new series of articles spotlighting members of our Government Web Manager Community. This month, we introduce Jill James, who’s the Senior Web Editor/Director for the Department of Education, in their Communications and Outreach","date" : "2014-08-27T10:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rflagg" : "Rachel Flagg"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Have You Cut the Cord?","summary" : "First, it was party lines. Then, it was the rotary phone. Now, two-in-five (41%) U.S. households have officially said goodbye to landlines, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Center for Health Statistics. If you have been keeping up with previous mobile trends, you won’t be surprised","date" : "2014-08-26T10:00:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"How to Find Your Open Data Hotshots","summary" : "How can you find the top 5 users of your open data? We were recently asked this question on the Open Data listserv, and while this information can be a good measure of success for open data programs, we also figured some of the answers shared would be of interest to the broader community. This blog","date" : "2014-08-21T11:00:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"nick-sinai" : "Nick Sinai"},"topics" : {
"analytics" : "Analytics",
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data",
"search-engine-optimization" : "Search engine optimization"
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},{"title" :"Paper Prototyping PTSD Coach","summary" : "The PTSD Coach mobile app from the Department of Veterans Affairs, provides veterans and users with information about PTSD and professional care, along with self-assessment tools and aid in finding support opportunities. The app has been downloaded over 100,000 times in 74","date" : "2014-08-21T10:00:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"katie-steffy" : "Katie Steffy"},"topics" : {
"design" : "Design",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: What\u0026#8217;s Currently the No. 1 Smartphone in the U.S.?","summary" : "Do you ever find yourself conducting unofficial smartphone research? Ever since my agency decided to develop a mobile app, I know I do. Luckily, new data from ComScore on the U.S. smartphone subscriber market share can help eliminate the guesswork. Here are a few of the key trends ComScore found in the U.S. smartphone industry","date" : "2014-08-19T10:00:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"social-media" : "Social media"
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},{"title" :"Census PoP Quiz Mobile App Challenges Knowledge of State Statistics","summary" : "The U.S. Census Bureau today released Census PoP Quiz, a new interactive mobile application that challenges users’ knowledge of demographic facts for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The new app, which draws from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, aims to raise","date" : "2014-08-14T13:29:36-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data",
"usability" : "Usability"
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},{"title" :"Photo Carousels on Mobile Websites: Use With Caution!","summary" : "You might recognize them by the user controls, if provided, that allow you to move from one newsy item to the next. They go by various names, including: carousel, slider, slideshow, banner, and gallery. Many government homepages have them. In a recent email exchange on","date" : "2014-08-13T10:00:58-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"beth-martin" : "Beth Martin"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"research" : "Research"
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},{"title" :"Delivering a Customer-Focused Government Through Smarter IT","summary" : "As technology changes, government must change with it to address new challenges and take advantage of new opportunities. This Administration has made important strides in modernizing government so that it serves its constituents more effectively and efficiently, but we know there is much more to do. Last year, a group of digital and technology experts","date" : "2014-08-12T14:29:36-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"steven-vanroekel" : "Steven VanRoekel","todd-park" : "Todd Park","beth-cobert" : "Beth Cobert"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"customer-experience" : "Customer experience",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"open-data" : "Open data"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Rise of Mobile App Super Users?","summary" : "A recent Trends on Tuesday post cautioned against becoming another statistic in the treacherous, desolate wasteland known as the App Graveyard. Thankfully, there is some research that shows the likelihood of your app being banished to its grave is receding. Trends indicate that not only are app retention rates rising, user engagement is increasing. According","date" : "2014-08-12T10:00:33-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"zeshan-khan" : "Zeshan Khan"},"topics" : {
"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Design Sketching: The Easiest Prototype Method Ever","summary" : "When it comes to Web and software design, the pen(cil) is often mightier than the Design Suite. What I mean is: Tech is cool, but don’t fall under its spell. It’s often when you remove the technological layers between you and your thoughts that the best ideas sprout. You’ve heard of great ideas that started","date" : "2014-08-08T10:00:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jonathan-rubin" : "Jonathan Rubin"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"usability" : "Usability",
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},"branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
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},{"title" :"Parents Get a Head Start With New Mobile App","summary" : "As it’s time to return to school, the Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families is helping parents and teachers prepare anytime, anywhere. Head Start Resources, an app available on iOS and Android, is a gateway to tools and resources for those associated","date" : "2014-08-07T13:00:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"katie-steffy" : "Katie Steffy"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
},"branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: What’s Your Mobile [App]etite?","summary" : "In a few short years, the number of mobile apps has exploded, and the time spent on apps continues to increase. However, one thing hasn’t changed: the number of apps individuals use. The average smartphone owner uses 22 to 28 apps in a month, according to new data from Nielsen. Here are a few highlights","date" : "2014-08-05T11:00:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
"design" : "Design",
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Safe Swimming This Summer (Can You Say That Four Times Fast?)","summary" : "You don’t have to try too hard to get people into the water during summer. But swimming the healthy and safe way? Well, everyone could use help on that. Whether you are a swimmer, lifeguard, pool attendant or sun-loving spectator, the Centers for Disease","date" : "2014-07-31T10:53:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Customization is Key to Better Mobile User Experience","summary" : "Resources like Theresa Neil’s Mobile Design Product Gallery book and Mobile-patterns.com describe, and provide examples of, common features mobile developers can implement and tailored further to satisfy their users. As mentioned in this week’s Trends on Tuesday, customizing apps to meet","date" : "2014-07-30T02:12:52-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"katie-steffy" : "Katie Steffy"},"topics" : {
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"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Avoid the “App Graveyard”","summary" : "Apps that are downloaded, used a few times and then never used again, are considered part of the “app graveyard.” In fact, 95% of apps are discarded within a month of download by users. Focus on creating a great user experience to make sure your agency apps are used consistently.","date" : "2014-07-29T01:23:17-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell","katie-steffy" : "Katie Steffy"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"How the American Battle Monument Commission Developed its First Mobile App","summary" : "The job of the American Battle Monument Commission (AMBC) is to manage all overseas cemeteries and memorials from WWI and WWII. There are over 200,000 veterans who are buried or memorialized at these cemeteries. When ABMC began thinking about releasing a native","date" : "2014-07-24T10:06:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"zeshan-khan" : "Zeshan Khan"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Mapping Food Deserts – The USDA Economic Research Service’s GIS Map Services","summary" : "Food deserts are areas where residents have little or no access to nutritional food. Food deserts exist because of low-incomes, lack of transportation, or too few stores that stock produce and other healthy food items. Governments from the local level to federal have implemented grant programs to encourage grocery store construction in the food deserts.","date" : "2014-07-23T10:00:27-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: FCC Finds Rise in Mobile Internet Subscriptions","summary" : "Approximately 70% of American households have a fixed Internet source of 0.2 megabits per second or greater, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Measuring Broadband Across America Report that analyzes the digital divide in the U.S. Up 15% in the last decade, this increase in Internet subscription source","date" : "2014-07-22T11:00:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"katie-steffy" : "Katie Steffy"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Gov Code Chop Shop: Help Department of Labor Share Their App Functionality Gov-wide","summary" : "You’ve just found a great open source fed agency app on the Mobile Code Sharing Catalog, and would love to use one of its cool functionalities for your own agency’s app. As federal agencies release more and more code to the open source","date" : "2014-07-21T14:00:01-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell","michael-pulsifer" : "Michael Pulsifer"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Solving a MobileGov Mystery: Using Open Source CMS to Implement Responsive Web Design","summary" : "Responsive Web design is widely-known as a go-to solution for designing a website to fit on any device’s screen size. As we found in our February workshop, federal agencies are implementing it for various reasons. There are various ways to implement responsive","date" : "2014-07-18T01:24:56-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell","katie-steffy" : "Katie Steffy"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"FEMA\u0026#8217;s Responsive Disaster Assistance Website Helps Survivors Find, Apply for Aid","summary" : "Hurricane Arthur, the first named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall in North Carolina, July 3, as a Category 2 hurricane. It was no Sandy, but Arthur nevertheless reminds us to be prepared now and always. As we say at NOAA, “It only takes one.” That “one”","date" : "2014-07-17T10:41:27-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: RealTrack – How Hackathons Help Create Apps from APIs","summary" : "Once a federal agency releases an API, there are several ways they can be used in apps. The most common method is through hackathons. Hackathons are where an agency or agencies present the API(s) and invite developers to create prototype apps. The apps","date" : "2014-07-16T10:00:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Drives Time on Digital Media","summary" : "Major mobile milestones in May—try saying that three times! A new mobile usage report from ComScore revealed two significant shifts to mobile in May: total time spent on digital media and time spent on apps. Here are a few highlights from the report: Mobile platforms—smartphones and tablets—accounted for 60% of total time spent on digital","date" : "2014-07-15T14:28:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile REMM App: New Physicians’ Aid","summary" : "The Department of Health and Human Service’s Mobile REMM App provides physicians and emergency medical staff with the latest and greatest information concerning radioactive and nuclear emergencies. Available on iOS, Android, and Blackberry platforms, the native application showcases comprehensive information concerning dose","date" : "2014-07-10T10:00:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"katie-steffy" : "Katie Steffy"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: How APIs Provide Localized Information \u0026#8211; NOAA’s Weather Service Data and FCC’s Broadband Services Map","summary" : "The two featured APIs this week are excellent demonstrations of personalizing federal government data by where a user lives. Federal agencies collect a considerable amount of community data, from the Census Bureau’s surveys to the FDA’s local agricultural conditions. Thanks to GPS, app developers can locate a user’s immediate geographical location and tailor information based","date" : "2014-07-09T10:30:10-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: What Does Mobile-First Video Look Like?","summary" : "Like many Americans during the last month, I developed FIFA fever. Checking on scores, anticipating the latest Google Doodle and watching game highlights became part of my daily iPhone routine. Despite the elimination of Team U.S.A, mobile video consumption continues to win new fans. Consider these mobile video viewing statistics: On average, consumers spend 33 minutes","date" : "2014-07-08T01:39:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Have a H(app)y Fourth of July from MobileGov","summary" : "Washington. You can say a lot of things about this town, but one thing is clear: Fourth of July is our holiday. No one rocks Independence Day quite like we do, thanks to the hardworking people at the National Park Service who manage our National Mall and help stage a blockbuster fireworks celebration.","date" : "2014-07-03T13:00:39-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: APIs Come In Many (Data) Flavors","summary" : "This week, we will look at three different APIs that demonstrate how agencies use different technologies to serve out data. Presenting data in various formats encourages developers to build on federal APIs. As past columns have shown, the innovative apps created with federal data are quickly growing. The latest API news this week is how","date" : "2014-07-02T10:00:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Using Analytics to Create Change: USA.gov Usability Case Study","summary" : "While many people tout the death of the home page, it’s still an important piece of the user experience on USA.gov. In 2013, 30 percent of all sessions on USA.gov included the home page—that’s 8.67 million sessions. The numbers for GobiernoUSA.gov are even higher—79 percent of all sessions included the home page. According to Jakob Nielsen, “A","date" : "2014-07-01T13:00:38-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michelle-chronister" : "Michelle Chronister"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Broadcasting Board of Governors Use \u0026#8220;Relay\u0026#8221; Tool to Cover the World Cup","summary" : "World Cup fever, everyone’s got it—even the Broadcasting Board of Governors‘ (BBG) Voice of America has reporters covering the event. For this year’s World Cup, VOA has teamed up with the Office of Digital and Design Innovation (a digital team inside","date" : "2014-06-26T14:10:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"multilingual" : "Multilingual",
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: The Census Bureau’s Discovery Tool \u0026#8211; Find the Right API for Your App","summary" : "The Census Bureau recently released a machine-readable dataset discovery service that lists 41 Census data sets.","date" : "2014-06-25T10:00:47-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Are Mobile Devices The \u0026#8220;Center\u0026#8221; of Social Universe?","summary" : "Mobile devices are moving closer to the center of the social universe, according to this Sproutsocial article. Platforms like Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter are overwhelmingly used on the go. Comscore predicts that there will be increasing monetization via social in the coming years. In the banking industry, where data shows many people have stopped going to","date" : "2014-06-24T15:28:59-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Hacking the Bureaucracy One Task at a Time","summary" : "Are you having trouble getting training or professional development opportunities? Federal employees can gain access to a variety of professional development opportunities and work on digital projects across the government through the Open Opportunities program.","date" : "2014-06-23T13:00:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lnelson" : "Lisa Nelson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"DOT\u0026#8217;s SaferCar App Goes Android","summary" : "With the start of “astronomical summer” later this week on June 21, that means two things: road trips and car buying. If you’re doing either or both, best be sure to grab the app for the SaferCar program from the Department of Transportation’s","date" : "2014-06-19T01:00:15-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Department of State’s Model App \u0026#8211; Education USA","summary" : "Not only does the Department of State have a great set of APIs, State also has an excellent example of how to build an informative and useful app. EducationUSA is a network of State Department advisers who help international students apply for U.S. university programs.","date" : "2014-06-18T10:00:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Location Data Improving","summary" : "Imagine a world where your mobile device delivers ads for goods and services within 100 yards of your location. According to Thinknear, a leader in","date" : "2014-06-17T10:00:38-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Overcoming Barriers—DigitalGov Summit Recap","summary" : "As government innovators, we work to improve public services every day. In essence we are already in a public private partnership. But how can your agency capitalize on existing public private partnerships to engage citizens and enhance services? Four panelists from across government shared their public private partnerships success stories at the DigitalGov Citizen Services","date" : "2014-06-05T14:09:15-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"allison-alexander" : "Allison Alexander"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mary Meeker\u0026#8217;s 2014 Internet Trends","summary" : "Since 2001, Mary Meeker has developed a knack for highlighting what’s currently happening on the Internet and how this information may impact technology and business in the future. Last week she released her 2014 Internet Trends and it reveals some interesting digital trends. Here are the highlights: Marketing: Social messaging is changing","date" : "2014-06-03T13:25:10-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit a Success","summary" : "We had a GREAT DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit today. There were more than 200 digital innovators from across government and industry working to build the 21st century government the public expects.","date" : "2014-05-30T04:36:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza"},"topics" : {
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"challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions",
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"social-media" : "Social media",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Arlington National Cemetery\u0026#8217;s Updated App Brings You Closer to Nation\u0026#8217;s Fallen Veterans","summary" : "While many of us were planning for barbecues or heading to lakes and beaches on the eve of Memorial Day Weekend, the digital team at Arlington National Cemetery was busy doing what they do best: honoring the sacrifices of America’s","date" : "2014-05-29T01:45:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Hispanic Millennials Provide Insight on Mobile Future","summary" : "If you’re a frequent Trends on Tuesday reader, you may recall our post titled, “Latinos Embrace the Mobile Future,” which outlined several key categories where Latinos have adopted mobile technology faster than other groups. A new report by Univision and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, took an in-depth look at the mobile habits of Hispanic millennials,","date" : "2014-05-27T13:24:38-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Data Innovaton with Census at #HackForChange","summary" : "Do you want to build an application, product or business that uses Census Bureau data? There are opportunities to give feedback and get involved. Two years ago, the Census Bureau launched its application programming interface (API), giving developers access to a variety of high value data","date" : "2014-05-23T12:00:33-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"logan-powell" : "Logan Powell"},"topics" : {
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
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},{"title" :"How to Make a Mobile Paper Prototype","summary" : "What if a single piece of paper could make your mobile app work 20 percent better? It’s hard to imagine something as unimpressive as paper influencing our 21st century smartphones, but it’s true. Well before we get into the design and coding phases, we can show customers","date" : "2014-05-22T13:00:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jonathan-rubin" : "Jonathan Rubin"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Gov Apps for Memorial Day","summary" : "Memorial Day is Monday and we wanted to let you know about some mobile products available for the holiday. As you’re visiting Arlington National Cemetery, Pointe du Hoc or the National Mall this Memorial Day to pay your respects to our fallen military service members, there are three mobile apps that will provide you with","date" : "2014-05-22T11:52:42-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Ignite with Us","summary" : "Have a DigitalGov success?—published an API? Got buy-in from leadership? Changed a part of your customer-service paradigm? Developed a cool dashboard? Got the app out the door? Heck! Have you prototyped a wearable, drivable or flyable? Have a DigitalGov opinion?—think we should be focusing more or less on something? Have an idea on how to","date" : "2014-05-21T15:00:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Larger Screen Smartphones See Accelerated Shipments","summary" : "Smaller doesn’t mean more popular when it comes to smartphone screen size. According to mobile analyst Canalys, shipments for phones with screens larger than 5″ represented a third of total shipments worldwide in Q1 this year. Devices with a screen size larger than 5″ are more popularly known as “phablets” (not quite tablets, not quite phones). Government agencies","date" : "2014-05-20T01:15:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Sign up For DigitalGov Citizen Services Summit, Friday, May 30","summary" : "We won’t build the government of the 21st century by drawing within the lines. We don’t have to tell you the hard work of building a digital government doesn’t exist in a vacuum or a bubble. Show us social media without mobile, Web without data and user experience without APIs. You can’t? That’s right—in reality,","date" : "2014-05-19T03:03:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rflagg" : "Rachel Flagg","jherman" : "Justin Herman","tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier","jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell","apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza","jonathan-rubin" : "Jonathan Rubin"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Defense Finance and Accounting Service Goes Responsive","summary" : "Let’s face it: Some of us work to live. Some live to work. And all of us look forward to pay day. If you work for the Department of Defense, the Executive Office of the President, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Health","date" : "2014-05-15T13:15:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Apps Dominate Mobile Web Usage","summary" : "“There’s an app for that.” New data from app analytics provider Flurry on mobile app usage reveals that smartphone users are taking this trademarked slogan to heart. Of the 2 hours and 42 minutes per day that a typical user is on a mobile device, mobile app usage accounts for 2 hours and 19 minutes","date" : "2014-05-13T13:13:22-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"CDC\u0026#8217;s New App Answers the Question: \u0026#8216;Can I Eat This?\u0026#8217;","summary" : "I’ll be honest: When I had only heard the name of the new mobile app from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I thought, “Interesting — another dieting app to add to my phone.” So wrong was I. In fact, the only way you’re going to lose weight with this traveler’s app is if you","date" : "2014-05-08T10:16:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Because It\u0026#8217;s Hard","summary" : "Two years ago, federal agencies were set on a fast track to create a 21st century digital government. The Federal Digital Strategy served up a heaping set of deliverables on a tight timeline.","date" : "2014-05-07T10:00:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gwynne-kostin" : "Gwynne Kostin"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Government Open and Structured Content Models Are Here!","summary" : "Smartphones, tablets, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, not to mention your agency’s desktop website, are all clamoring for information, but sliced and diced in different ways. How can you make your content adaptive for efficient delivery to all of these mediums? Structured content and open content models can help you create content that","date" : "2014-05-05T14:17:39-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"structured-and-open-content-models-working-group" : "Structured and Open Content Models Working Group"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"EPA Mobile Projects Update","summary" : "Earth Day is next week, so today instead of featuring one mobile product like we do every Thursday, we’re highlighting how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is tackling mobile to help empower citizen environmental decisions. Currently, you can","date" : "2014-04-17T10:00:48-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: e-Reading on the Rise","summary" : "What’s black and white and read all over? An e-reader. While it may be premature to revise classic riddles, a recent study by the Pew Research Center indicates that e-books are gaining popularity among American readers. Nearly three in ten adults (28%) reported reading an e-book in the past year, up from 23% at the","date" : "2014-04-15T09:18:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tjohnson" : "Treci Johnson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Testing Key to Quality Mobile Products","summary" : "Building quality mobile products is the greatest challenge for succeeding in the mobile space according to an infographic by SmartBear. One key to developing quality mobile products is testing, as “nearly 50% of consumers will delete an app if they encounter just a single bug.” As a result the following processes are used to ensure","date" : "2014-03-25T10:00:34-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Why Go Responsive? Here’s What Feds Are Saying","summary" : "Responsive Web design implementations in the federal government have members of the Mobile Gov Community of Practice asking what is responsive Web design and how do we do it? In February, the","date" : "2014-03-24T14:04:51-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Announcing beta.usgs.gov","summary" : "In 1994 when the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) launched it’s first website, the Web was a very different place. Many websites that were launched had little consideration given to, or even had an understanding of, things such user experience, content strategies, or design. Over the next 20 years our","date" : "2014-03-21T09:54:22-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"scott-horvath" : "Scott Horvath"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Get a grip on injury, death rates with new mobile app from CDC","summary" : "Need to make a pitch for injury prevention? About to give an impromptu public health presentation that can benefit from a few sobering data points about leading causes of death in your state? (Or maybe you just have a keen interest in the macabre while waiting for the bus.) Well, go grab your iPads: The Center","date" : "2014-03-20T01:00:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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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 “Game On: HIV/STD Prevention Mobile Application Video Game Challenge” to crowdsource a","date" : "2014-03-19T10:07:39-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Download Speeds on the Rise","summary" : "Mobile devices are uploading data faster and mobile users are starting to expect better performance, according to Citrix. Fifty percent of web pages are taking 37.5% less time to load on a mobile device than they did just a year ago according the Citrix Mobile Analytics Report. This infographic from the study shows the percentage of users","date" : "2014-03-18T01:35:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Anytime, Anywhere, Anything: The Effect of Mobile on the Web in 25 Years","summary" : "In 25 years, imagine a world where anytime, anywhere, any device is just taken for granted. That’s the theme from the responses we got from our Mobile Gov Community of Practice members when we asked them to predict the effect mobile would have on the Web","date" : "2014-03-13T14:32:42-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Tablet Ownership Steadily Increasing","summary" : "Tablet ownership continues to rise, 44% of Americans now owning one, according to Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) December 2013 estimates. Other interesting findings include: Exactly half of American adults now own either a tablet or an e-reader. 7 in 10 online consumers expect","date" : "2014-03-11T10:32:50-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Creating E-Books: Think Functionality, Not Aesthetics","summary" : "E-books are great for one thing: reading on mobile devices. Their reflowable text adjusts to fit the reader’s smartphone, tablet, or e-reader in the type size the reader chooses. They are essential for reading on smartphones, and better than pdf’s for all but the biggest tablets.","date" : "2014-03-07T11:12:10-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"carolyn-cihelka" : "Carolyn Cihelka"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Open Payments Apps Help Healthcare Professionals Track Reporting On The Go","summary" : "The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is bringing lots of change to the traditional healthcare landscape as practitioners and healthcare companies gear up for an influx of patient demand. There are also changes to the way healthcare companies and doctors will track and report reimbursements. And not only is the healthcare changing but also are the","date" : "2014-03-06T10:30:22-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Global Mobile Data Traffic Nearly Doubles in 2013","summary" : "Global mobile data traffic almost doubled in 2013 according to Cisco’s recent Traffic Forecast Update. There are a number of other mobile data traffic trends in the report, but here are five trends we wanted to highlight today: Global mobile data traffic grew 81 percent in 2013. Global mobile data traffic reached 1.5 exabytes per","date" : "2014-03-04T12:18:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Code Sharing Catalog Snippet: BioZen","summary" : "Interested in building an app that incorporates biofeedback data from multiple wearable body sensors? Check out BioZen, available on the Mobile Code Sharing Catalog, one of the first mobile applications to provide users with live biofeedback","date" : "2014-02-28T09:52:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"DigitalGov Search is Now Responsive","summary" : "We’ve redesigned our mobile search results page. It now uses a card-based design and is responsive. This design gives searchers a more consistent user experience and access to the results anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Take a sneak peek of the new responsive results page.","date" : "2014-02-27T13:13:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ammie-farraj-feijoo" : "Ammie Farraj Feijoo"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Double Digit Crowdsourcing Competitions Launch in February","summary" : "This is a phenomenal month for federal challenge and prize competitions with 12 new programs launched in February. The challenge.gov platform usually averages four to six new challenges a month, so we’re excited to see the year start off with a big push to engage citizens in creative","date" : "2014-02-26T13:25:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Department of Education goes responsive (again) with FSA\u0026#8217;s new Financial Aid Toolkit","summary" : "Money for college? It’s never too early — or too late, for that matter — to start schooling oneself in the possibilities of federal financial aid. Following in the footsteps of their StudentAid.gov website, the digital team at Ed.gov’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) closed out 2013 with the launch of FinancialAidToolkit.ed.gov, a “sister” site featuring","date" : "2014-02-26T11:15:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Distracted Walking","summary" : "Piggybacking on one of my earlier posts, People are Excited about Mobile, I’m going to talk about “Distracted Walking.” Who among us hasn’t walked and texted or checked Facebook or Twitter on our smartphones, but have bumped into someone or something while texting on your smartphone? I","date" : "2014-02-18T09:50:07-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: 1 Billion Smartphones Shipped in 2013","summary" : "Smartphone adoption continues to grow exponentially. IDC recently reported smartphones accounted for 55.1% of worldwide mobile phone shipments last year. Smartphone manufacturers shipped a whopping 1.004 billion smartphones last year, up 38.4% from 2012’s shipments of 725.3 million, according to data","date" : "2014-02-11T13:54:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Optimizing Infographics for Mobile","summary" : "Mobile first means more than just focusing on text content; it’s also includes considering visual content as important element of the user experience.","date" : "2014-02-04T10:33:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"What Happened at Our User Experience Summit (with slides!)","summary" : "We were hoping for 30, but we got more than 100 user experience professionals and novices on Jan 28, 2014, for our User Experience (UX) Summit at the General Services Administration.","date" : "2014-02-03T15:42:10-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jonathan-rubin" : "Jonathan Rubin"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Gov User Experience Resources and Design Tools","summary" : "In September 2013, the Mobile Gov Community of Practice released user experience guidelines and recommendations for federal agencies to use in order to create good mobile user experiences. This article highlights private sector and government resources and tools to assist agencies in implementing those user experience guidelines. Mobile User Experience Resources and Tools From the","date" : "2014-01-20T02:50:23-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The Future of Mobile Data","summary" : "This infographic from Light Reading addresses recent trends in mobile data use. We are struck by how much data was transferred via a WiFi connection vs. cellular. People are using WiFi connections way more than cellular ones. Some other quick highlights: In Q2","date" : "2014-01-14T17:20:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: What Might Smartphones Do in 2016?","summary" : "A recent article in Mobile Marketing Watch suggested location-based sensor fusion would be featured on a billion mobile devices in 2016. Last year Mary Meeker said in 2013 that mobile would be wearable, sharable, drivable and flyable. We’ve gathered some other projections for the future functionality of mobile devices; • Indoor","date" : "2014-01-07T13:42:23-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"FCC\u0026#8217;s Speed Test App","summary" : "Feeling the need for [more] speed? Well, so is the mobile team at the Federal Communications Commission. As part of the agency’s Measuring Broadband America Program, the FCC is looking to the crowd (that means you!) to help them assess America’s mobile broadband performance on a national scale. Their hope is","date" : "2014-01-02T13:39:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Federal Agency Mobile Gov Trends in 2013","summary" : "Today we want to tell you about the federal agency trends we saw this year in the development of public facing mobile products.","date" : "2013-12-31T13:31:03-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Your Art App Now on Android","summary" : "Earlier this year the National Gallery of Art released their “Your Art” app on iOS and now they have released an Android version. The Your Art app allows users to explore more than 130 works by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and others. Along","date" : "2013-12-26T13:27:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: When Was Your Mobile Phone Not Within Ear Shot?","summary" : "Here’s the latest news from the people are “excited about mobile” beat. Do you remember the last time your phone was not within earshot? Well, according to this infographic from Fast Company, 25% of smartphone owners ages 18-44 surveyed said they couldn’t remember the last time their smartphone was not","date" : "2013-12-23T13:19:53-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The 2013 NORAD Tracks Santa App","summary" : "Here Comes Santa Claus, Here Comes Santa Claus, Right Down iOS/Windows/Android Lane… What started out as a misdirected phone call to NORAD’s predecessor agency in 1955 turned into a much anticipated holiday tradition for kids and adults alike. Fifty-eight years later, NORAD","date" : "2013-12-19T01:16:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Shopping Increased for 2013 Holiday Shopping","summary" : "Mobile shopping increased significantly this year for both Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But by how much? A lot says this report from IBM: Online Sales Set New Record: Thanksgiving Day online sales grew by 19.7 percent year-over-year followed by Black Friday, with sales increasing 19 percent over 2012.","date" : "2013-12-17T13:16:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Test Case: Write It Once, Test Many Times","summary" : "What if Thomas Edison Didn’t Use Test Cases? “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~Thomas A. Edison Software testing is like a science experiment. The Tester must plan: methods, steps, and paths through the Application Under Test (AUT) to completely exercise the","date" : "2013-12-16T11:38:54-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"FDA.gov Goes Responsive","summary" : "It’s late at night. Your child can’t sleep: She has some kind of virus. You reach for a bottle of over-the-counter infant fever reducer you bought recently. But wait, you say to yourself: Didn’t I hear on the news something about a recall? Which brand was that again? Thanks to the digital team at the","date" : "2013-12-12T13:10:11-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile User Experience Guidelines","deck" : "Six user experience guidelines for creating a mobile product.","summary" : "These mobile user experience guidelines were distilled from community feedback about mobile UX practices.","date" : "2013-12-11T04:13:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Gaming Habits","summary" : "We’ve reported before that playing games is one of the most popular activities on mobile devices. A recent study by App Annie and IDC dives deeper into","date" : "2013-12-10T01:01:15-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"U.S. Census Bureau Dwellr App","summary" : "The pursuit of happiness for many of us might mean a fresh new start and a new place to call home. But where? In such a large and diverse country as ours, the choices can seem endless — and overwhelming. Now, your data friendly U.S. Census Bureau has harnessed the power","date" : "2013-12-05T12:51:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Census Mobile App Showcases Local Statistics","summary" : "America has always been a nation on the move. Whether you are looking for a career change or a new neighborhood to call home, life decisions affect each of us every day. With roughly half of Americans now owning smartphones, everyone should","date" : "2013-12-03T12:54:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"stephen-buckner" : "Stephen Buckner"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: More Tablet Shipments than PCs in 2014?","summary" : "Canalys, an international IT company, predicted last week that tablets will almost out-ship all other PC form factors combined next year. They expect that tablets will account for almost 50% of the total client PC market (that includes desktops, notebooks, and tablets) in 2014. PC shipments accounted for 40% of PC shipments","date" : "2013-12-03T09:11:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Surviving Thanksgiving With Your Smartphone","summary" : "Oh, Thanksgiving! If you need to take a time-out from the dinner table for a little of your own (cyber)space, give these apps a try: Does a holiday with your extended family put your nerves on edge? The Breathe2Relax and TacticalBreather mobile apps are specially designed to help you control","date" : "2013-11-27T11:25:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"genevieve-contey" : "Genevieve Contey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Driving Pre-Cyber Monday Shopping","summary" : "Cyber Monday, billed as one of the busiest online-commerce days of the year, is spilling into the rest of the holiday season as more consumers use mobile devices to shop whenever they please. Shoppers are no longer waiting to return to work on the Monday after Thanksgiving to surf and complete web deals. Consumers armed","date" : "2013-11-26T15:55:39-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Coast Guard HSWL App","summary" : "Are you active or retired Coast Guard — or related to someone who is? If so, you’ll want to spread the word about the United States Coast Guard’s Health, Safety and Work Life (HSWL) app from USCG’s Office of Work-Life Programs.","date" : "2013-11-21T10:02:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"genevieve-contey" : "Genevieve Contey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"5 Tips for Communicating Technical Information: iPad Pilot","summary" : "“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” — Mark Twain It’s simple—you’re the technical expert; you know the topic inside out, so of course you can easily explain it to a captive audience. Right? Not always. Communicators in every industry know that message","date" : "2013-11-12T13:35:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"alan-greilsamer" : "Alan Greilsamer"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Would You Trade Your Latte For Your Mobile Device?","summary" : "Recently, Mobile Marketing Watch published Sprint’s interesting infographic showing how executives use their mobile devices. “Would you trade your latte or morning cup of coffee for your mobile phone?” Sprint asked business professional executives. According to the results of their survey, turns out business professionals would","date" : "2013-11-12T09:50:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"State Department Mobile Site Goes Responsive","summary" : "The Department of State has updated their mobile website m.state.gov","date" : "2013-11-07T12:04:34-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Surpasses Desktop for Social Media","summary" : "More users are now accessing social media via mobile than on desktops. People are checking email or using social networks during their commute, in line at the grocery store, or waiting at the doctor’s","date" : "2013-11-05T10:30:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Which Devices Should I Test With?","summary" : "Developing a test device selection plan that is updated on a regular basis will help your organization whittle down the list of devices to a manageable number.","date" : "2013-10-29T11:14:52-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"mobilegov-team" : "MobileGov Team"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Digital News Trends and Mobile","summary" : "The Pew Research Center recently released a report on “12 Trends Shaping Digital News.” Some of these trends show that mobile devices continue to affect how the public consumes the news. The report found: 19% of Americans saw news on a social network “yesterday” in 2012, more than double the 9% who had done so","date" : "2013-10-29T10:13:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Always Future Ready: The Benefits of Open Content Models and Structured Data Webinar","summary" : "“Future-ready content,” “responsive design,” “create once, publish everywhere” are all buzzwords you hear when talking about the present and future of Web publishing. But how do we get there? We all know that technology is only part of the answer. Open content models and structured data are a big part of","date" : "2013-10-28T02:07:42-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"National Science Foundation\u0026#8217;s Science and Engineering Indicators App","summary" : "The National Science Foundation’s National Science Board has developed Science and Engineering Indicators for iPad. The application provides full content of the Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) 2012 report –the latest edition available. From NSF, The biennial SEI report is a comprehensive source of high-quality, quantitative","date" : "2013-09-19T10:41:41-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Making Mobile Gov: User Experience Recommendations","summary" : "How We Did It Last November, as part of revisiting the state of Mobile Gov, government mobile innovators identified a need for guidelines to help create amazing and engaging mobile user experiences. We convened a group to workshop around elements of mobile user experience with the","date" : "2013-09-18T02:49:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: The State of Mobile Search","summary" : "Mobile searching has become a fact of life. According to a recent study by Econsultancy, 67% of smartphone owners had used their device to search for information in the past 7 days. The infographic below describes what they are searching for–the majority of searches are for","date" : "2013-09-17T13:46:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
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},{"title" :"Digital Analytics Program Goes To The Moon!","summary" : "On Feb. 15, 2013, a meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded 14 miles above Chelyabinsk, Russia. Users flocked to NASA.gov for info, and we spiked to nearly 12 million page views that day, ~16 times the daily average. Our real-time analytics showed over 300,000 active visitors","date" : "2013-09-17T12:39:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jim-wilson" : "Jim Wilson"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Mobile Products for National Preparedness Month","summary" : "September is National Preparedness Month and there are a number of government mobile products to help you prepare for emergencies. FEMA‘s mobile app contains preparedness information for different types of disasters, an interactive checklist for emergency kits, a section to plan emergency meeting locations, information on how to stay safe and recover after a disaster, a","date" : "2013-09-12T10:05:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Code Sharing Catalog Snippet: Web Experience Toolkit (WET)","summary" : "Looking to jumpstart your mobile website development? Check out the Web Experience Toolkit (WET) available on the Mobile Code Sharing Catalog. The toolkit includes reusable components for building and maintaining innovative Web sites that are accessible, usable, and interoperable. Developed as a collaborative open source project by the Government of Canada, the WET has reusable","date" : "2013-09-11T15:46:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Kids are Going Mobile","summary" : "From the time they can grasp an object in their hands, children are reaching for electronic gadgets of all kinds—particularly our smartphones and tablets. The early adoption of mobile is growing each year as evidenced by this infographic from EveryDayFamily.com. 30 percent of 2- to","date" : "2013-09-10T02:31:38-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lisa-wilcox" : "Lisa Wilcox"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
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},{"title" :"SSI Mobile Wage Reporting","summary" : "Following up on their mobile website, the Social","date" : "2013-09-05T09:24:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michael-niedzwiecki" : "Michael Niedzwiecki"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Companies Use Mobile for Brand Loyalty","summary" : "A recent survey of 100 retailers by EPiServer found that 46 percent of those with a mobile strategy in place and 74 percent of those planning to launch one soon said they are using mobile primarily to increase customer loyalty or provide a more personalized experience for","date" : "2013-09-03T09:56:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"GSA\u0026#8217;s eBuy Mobile","summary" : "The General Services Administration has made a mobile version of its eBuy website. The mobile site provides ease of access to small","date" : "2013-08-29T10:22:07-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michael-niedzwiecki" : "Michael Niedzwiecki"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Product Testing Guidelines and Resources","summary" : "You have started developing your mobile product, but you may be wondering what and how to test. As with any form of software development, mobile testing should be done intermittently throughout all development stages. This article was developed as part of the Mobile Application Development Program to provide agencies with some general testing strategies, types,","date" : "2013-08-22T13:45:01-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"research" : "Research",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"How\u0026#8217;s My Waterway?: A Mobile Optimized Site from the EPA","summary" : "The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has upgraded its ‘How’s My Waterway?’ website into a responsive design website, meaning it","date" : "2013-08-22T09:55:39-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brandon-barr" : "Brandon Barr"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Latinos Embrace the Mobile Future","summary" : "Latinos appear to be adapting to mobile technology faster than other groups, according to Mobile Future. They are ahead of the average U.S. population in several key categories, such as: 47% of Latino adults have embraced wireless exclusively versus 34% of all U.S. adults","date" : "2013-08-20T09:30:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michael-niedzwiecki" : "Michael Niedzwiecki"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Embracing Responsive Design","summary" : "See how a shift in consumer behavior during the last few years lead to the responsive redesign of USA.gov and GobiernoUSA.gov.","date" : "2013-08-20T07:42:45-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lgodfrey" : "Laura Godfrey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NASA Space Place Prime App","summary" : "In May, NASA released the Space Place Prime app for both iPhone and iPad. This app’s target audience is not only kids, but for teachers, parents, and all space enthusiasts. Based on NASA’s website, The Space Place, this app presents","date" : "2013-08-15T09:51:48-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rachel-hurley" : "Rachel Hurley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"SocialGov Summit Diagnoses Viral Gov","summary" : "Agencies discuss how to make social media programs more sharable and engaging.","date" : "2013-08-13T18:20:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jherman" : "Justin Herman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: A Record 230 Million Smartphones Shipped Q2 2013","summary" : "According to research done by Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew 47 percent from 156.5 million units in the second quarter of 2012 to 229.6 million units in the second quarter of 2013. Additionally, the research finds that this growth is being driven by demand for Android phones","date" : "2013-08-06T11:45:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brandon-barr" : "Brandon Barr"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Product Security and Privacy Testing Resources","summary" : "Security testing is used to ensure that a mobile product does not pose a threat to agency IT systems and databases. In addition, privacy testing ensures that an app does not put the user’s personally identifiable information into a compromisable position. This article was developed as part of the Mobile Application Development Program. See our","date" : "2013-08-05T15:01:32-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Product Performance Testing","summary" : "Performance testing is used to verify that an app or web page will display quickly to the user and will continue to function as the number of users increases to peak loads. Performance is an important consideration for mobile applications because the connection speed of users is often slower and more variable for mobile users than desktop users. Surveys","date" : "2013-08-05T14:21:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"HUD Office of Inspector General Responsive Design Website","summary" : "The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has developed a responsive design website for the HUD Office of Inspector General. The website provides: news, the latest reports and publications, locations to","date" : "2013-08-01T09:15:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michael-niedzwiecki" : "Michael Niedzwiecki"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Product Accessibility Testing Resources","summary" : "Accessibility testing is a subset of usability testing and is the inclusive practice of making websites and mobile applications usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. You do this by testing mobile websites and/or applications on all leading browsers, mobile devices and screen readers. This article was developed as part of the Mobile Application","date" : "2013-07-31T10:34:45-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Identify Your Mobile Personas","summary" : "The mobile product your agency is trying to promote needs to fit your customers, and creating mobile personas is a strategic way of doing that.","date" : "2013-07-30T09:35:38-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rachel-hurley" : "Rachel Hurley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NOAA\u0026#8217;s Whale Alert – Ship Strike Reduction for Right Whales App","summary" : "Mariners now have an anytime, anywhere resource to aid in the","date" : "2013-07-25T09:32:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brandon-barr" : "Brandon Barr"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Uprise of SMS Marketing","summary" : "MobileMarketingWatch recently published an article on how the SMS marketing world is changing. Due to its popularity, SMS has evolved into one of the most effective mobile marketing strategies. Improves Relevance for All: Marketers tailor campaigns to a variety of interests in order","date" : "2013-07-23T15:30:39-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rachel-hurley" : "Rachel Hurley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Department of Labor: Download Their Apps, Fork Their Code, Check out the Webinar","summary" : "The Department of Labor’s DOL Timesheet, OSHA Heat Index Tool and LaborStats apps are available anytime and anywhere for the public. Now their code is available for agencies to leverage for mobile development. All the apps’ code are available on the Mobile Code","date" : "2013-07-18T09:30:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michael-niedzwiecki" : "Michael Niedzwiecki"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Digital Metrics for Federal Agencies","summary" : "Digital metrics are critical for measuring, analyzing, and reporting on the effectiveness of your Web, mobile, social media, and other digital channels. Every agency should have a metrics strategy to measure performance, customer satisfaction, and engagement, and use the data to make continuous improvements to serve its customers. Part 1: Common Metrics: Guidance, Best Practices, and","date" : "2013-07-15T11:41:47-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"marina-fox" : "Marina Fox"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis Exhibit App","summary" : "The 2013 JFK Library and Museum exhibit “To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis” now has a virtual partner on the iPad. Anytime, anywhere, people will be able","date" : "2013-07-11T09:04:11-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brandon-barr" : "Brandon Barr"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Gov for Independence Day!","summary" : "Gearing up for the Fourth? Here are some anytime, anywhere government apps that can help make celebrating the United States easier and more fun. If you’re worried about the weather you can check out the National Weather Service mobile website. If the heat","date" : "2013-07-04T09:28:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Veteran\u0026#8217;s Affairs PTSD Coach","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by Veteran’s Affairs. PTSD Coach is a mobile application developed by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs in order to help veterans and military service members","date" : "2013-06-18T10:34:17-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"CDC\u0026#8217;s Solve the Outbreak App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) launched a free, educational iPad app called “Solve the Outbreak,” which lets users play","date" : "2013-06-18T01:33:34-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"design" : "Design",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Disruptive Technologies That Will Change the Way We Work","summary" : "Do you know what the most important technology will be 12 years from now, in 2025? A recent report on Disruptive Technologies from McKinsey & Company predicts a number of evolving technologies that will have the biggest impact in the next decade or so, including","date" : "2013-06-17T12:34:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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},{"title" :"OPM Alert App","summary" : "Did that snowstorm (or thunderstorm as the case may be) affect DC feds’ operating status? Now you’ll know even faster with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management‘s newest mobile app OPM Alert. The app features: Real","date" : "2013-06-13T10:15:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michael-niedzwiecki" : "Michael Niedzwiecki"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Responsive Design Overview, Resources and Tools","summary" : "Responsive Web design refers to a fluidly constructed Web page layout that scales from handheld device displays to large, high-resolution computer displays using flexible typography, flexible images, fluid grids, and CSS3 media queries. For years, most Web teams designed for the desktop. Branding, navigation, work flows – the overall look & feel of online applications","date" : "2013-06-11T13:08:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"YouTube Releases New Features","summary" : "YouTube recently upgraded to the new One Channel design. The new design emphasizes responsive layouts for mobile devices, tablets, desktops and laptops, and TVs. A single banner on a white background replaces a customizable background and color scheme. YouTube recommends using a single 2560 x 1440 px image that fits","date" : "2013-06-07T11:19:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jason-kelly" : "Jason Kelly"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"multimedia" : "Multimedia",
"social-media" : "Social media"
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},{"title" :"Energy\u0026#8217;s Alternative Fuel Locator Mobile Site","summary" : "Drivers can find the closest alternative fueling sites anytime, anywhere with the Alternative Fuel Locator. The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has created this mobile website that allows users to locate alternative fueling stations. Using Google map technology and data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC), the site","date" : "2013-06-06T10:06:32-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brandon-barr" : "Brandon Barr"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report","summary" : "Techcrunch. com reports Mary Meeker’s much anticipated annual Internet Trends report released at the D11 Conference last week shows astounding growth regarding use of smartphones and tablets.","date" : "2013-06-05T08:49:57-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
"social-media" : "Social media",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"What We\u0026#8217;re (Really) Talking About When We\u0026#8217;re Talking About Mobile (Hint: It\u0026#8217;s the User)","summary" : "It used to be when we said mobile we meant activities and devices defined strictly by mobility and the features associated with it, such as GPS, SMS, barcode readers, cell phones, etc. But when I found myself in my easy chair watching a ballgame on my","date" : "2013-06-04T11:01:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jim-costello" : "Jim Costello"},"topics" : {
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"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Apple\u0026#8217;s iOS Terms of Service \u0026 Developer Program License Agreement","summary" : "The Apple iTunes App store is the only marketplace for downloading apps for the Apple platform. In order to put apps in the iTunes store, agencies or their contractors have signed agreements with Apple to use Apple Software to produce mobile apps that can later","date" : "2013-05-30T11:10:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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"social-media" : "Social media",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering",
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},{"title" :"Social Security\u0026#8217;s Mobile Website","summary" : "The Social Security Administration recently announced their new optimized mobile website which is compatible with Android, Blackberry, iPhone, and Windows devices. The mobile website offers a user-friendly, tabular, icon-driven navigation, which makes it very easy to find information anytime, anywhere.","date" : "2013-05-30T05:06:51-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kanika-tolver" : "Kanika Tolver"},"topics" : {
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"multilingual" : "Multilingual"
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},{"title" :"Mobile Application Development Program Webinar and Wikithon Tomorrow!","summary" : "Anytime, anywhere government information and services are becoming more important as the public increasingly consumes information and services on the go. As we announced last week, agencies can now get assistance with their mobile development efforts with our new Mobile Application Development Program. Tomorrow, we will host","date" : "2013-05-29T10:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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},{"title" :"Functionality and Usability Testing Resources","summary" : "Functionality testing verifies that the functions of a product or service is working as intended. Each function is tested by providing appropriate input, verifying the output and comparing the actual results with the expected results. Usability testing measures the ease of use and intuitiveness of a product or service by asking users to perform a","date" : "2013-05-25T16:28:41-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"research" : "Research",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Mobile SOW and Developer Qualifications","summary" : "Structuring a Statement of Work (SOW) for the development or modification of mobile products should be similar to any SOW your government organization issues for IT products and services.","date" : "2013-05-25T04:11:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"NASCIO Launches Mobile Apps Catalog","summary" : "The federal government’s Mobile Code Catalog has company! This month, NASCIO released a new State Mobile Apps Catalog, a collection of over 160 state and territory native mobile apps that users can browse and download for smart phones and tablets. The apps are searchable by state/territory,","date" : "2013-05-24T08:14:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"lnelson" : "Lisa Nelson"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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},{"title" :"Mobile Application Development Program","summary" : "Helping agencies plan, develop, test and launch anytime, anywhere, any device mobile products and services for the public. Plan—Build a mobile strategy, see what other agencies have done, use new acquisitions tools to find top mobile developers. Develop—Create great mobile apps and sites","date" : "2013-05-23T03:45:28-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"CDC Mobile Tools","summary" : "The Center’s for Disease and Control has developed a mobile website and a mobile app so users can access information anytime, anywhere, on any device. The mobile website was developed to allow users to access a subset of CDC’s content on mobile devices. These sections include","date" : "2013-05-16T09:31:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kanika-tolver" : "Kanika Tolver"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Federal Mobile Code Sharing Catalog Is Here","summary" : "Federal agencies have a new resource to help them make content and services available anytime, anywhere, and from any device–the federal Mobile Code Catalog sponsored by the Digital Services Innovation Center. This catalog is hosted on GitHub (more on why that matters in a moment).","date" : "2013-05-13T18:49:40-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michael-pulsifer" : "Michael Pulsifer"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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},{"title" :"USPS Mobile App Updates","summary" : "The U.S. Postal Service Mobile app can help you find a post office, calculate shipping prices and track packages. Since we last featured this app, the USPS has added the ability to schedule pickups and order supplies. Last month, USPS Mobile version 3.8 was released. The new version allows users","date" : "2013-05-09T09:30:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kanika-tolver" : "Kanika Tolver"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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"filename" :"2013-05-09-usps-mobile-app-updates.md",
"filepath" :"news/2013/05/2013-05-09-usps-mobile-app-updates.md",
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},{"title" :"Planning an Apps Challenge","summary" : "Apps challenges are a great way to spur innovation and help your agency meet its mission. But before you jump in, learn about how apps challenges work, to ensure yours is successful. Design Concept or Functioning App? What kind of product do you want from your apps challenge? A working app; or A concept for","date" : "2013-05-08T02:27:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
"challenges-and-prize-competitions" : "Challenges and prize competitions",
"innovation" : "Innovation",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Cracking the Mobile Contracting Nut","summary" : "Mobile is a fast moving technology leaving many agencies feeling behind the contracting eight-ball. Between finding those rockstar mobile developers, figuring out what to ask for in a statement of work (SOW), the time it takes getting a contract to get those expert resources, agencies are challenged in making","date" : "2013-05-06T15:05:48-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management"
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},{"title" :"Your Art, the National Gallery of Art\u0026#8217;s Mobile App","summary" : "The National Gallery of Art has released a free mobile application about the treasures in the permanent collection. Your Art app, available for iOS, enriches the experience of on-site visitors and expands the Gallery’s reach by bringing its masterpieces to art lovers across the globe. Some of this app’s","date" : "2013-05-02T15:22:17-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NASA\u0026#8217;s Be A Martian App","summary" : "Solar System fans, space shuttles are not the only way you can visit a planet! In July 2012, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA developed a mobile app called “NASA Be A Martian”, which allows you to become a Martian citizen on planet Mars. A Martian","date" : "2013-04-25T09:48:32-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kanika-tolver" : "Kanika Tolver"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"The SaferCar App","summary" : "The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has created a new iOS app that provides real-time vehicle safety information to consumers from NHTSA’s SaferCar.gov site The new SaferCar app gives consumers immediate access to key safety information to","date" : "2013-04-18T09:15:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"National Park Service Apps","summary" : "The National Park Service offers 3 mobile apps to create mobile experiences at 3 specific parks available for both the Android and iOS platforms. NPS National Mall App – As cherry blossom visitors give way to the summer travelers, visitors can download the NPS’s National Mall App providing visitors with a handheld map and customizable tour plans based","date" : "2013-04-04T09:30:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"DOSCareers App","summary" : "The U.S. Department of State has released a mobile app that informs and educates potential foreign service officers about a diplomatic career. The app provides access","date" : "2013-03-28T12:59:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"SaferBus Mobile App \u0026#8211; Usability Case Study","summary" : "When designing a site, remember that your terms and icons are like signposts that show people where your links and pages lead. Make sure that you use words and pictures that are easily understood or people will have trouble using your site. Small changes like underlining links or adding arrows to indicate expandable information can","date" : "2013-03-21T11:51:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jonathan-rubin" : "Jonathan Rubin"},"topics" : {
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"research" : "Research",
"usability" : "Usability",
"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"American Red Cross Tornado App","summary" : "The American Red Cross Tornado App gets your family and home ready for a tornado. The app, which is available on the Android and iOS platforms, puts everything you need to know","date" : "2013-03-21T09:46:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"NCI QuitPal App","summary" : "NCI QuitPal is a free smartphone app developed by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to support smokers working to become smoke-free. This interactive app, available on the iOS platform, was developed using proven quit","date" : "2013-03-14T10:39:45-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"GSA FAS QR Code","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by GSA. The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service Customer Accounts and Research (CAR) Office created a QR codes presentation for the 2011 GSA Expo to teach government attendees about the benefits of","date" : "2013-03-07T12:50:06-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USAID, HHS \u0026 DOL Mobile Gov App Challenge Winners","summary" : "One way federal agencies create Mobile Gov products is through third party development. Some agencies use platforms like Challenge.gov to get the word out to developers and there have been 3 mobile app challenge awards so far this","date" : "2013-03-07T11:21:19-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USDA\u0026#8217;s Amber Waves App","summary" : "The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) has developed a tablet app for their Amber Waves magazine which showcases","date" : "2013-02-28T09:10:41-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
},"branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
"filename" :"2013-02-28-usdas-amber-waves-app.md",
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},{"title" :"CDC\u0026#8217;s Solve the Outbreak App","summary" : "The Centers for Disease Control has launched a new table app Solve the Outbreak designed to teach users how CDC’s disease detectives save lives everyday. In this interactive, engaging app, you are a disease detective who gets to decide what to do when an outbreak","date" : "2013-02-21T12:38:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"Mobile Gov for Valentine\u0026#8217;s Day!","summary" : "Need a last minute Valentine’s Day gift idea? We’ve put together some last minute anytime, anywhere government Valentine’s ideas for your special","date" : "2013-02-14T11:26:56-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
},"branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
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},{"title" :"You'll Have Them at Swipe: Making An Awesome Mobile User Experience Webinar","summary" : "Learn how to create amazing and engaging Mobile Gov User Experiences by watching this webinar. Anytime, anywhere government will be used in numerous contexts and requires developers to think about more than just content, security and privacy during implementation.","date" : "2013-02-11T14:02:07-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Pointe du Hoc Battle Site Mobile App","summary" : "The Pointe du Hoc mobile app serves as a tour guide and learning tool for this World War II D-Day landing site in France. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) developed both Android","date" : "2013-01-24T13:59:38-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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"filename" :"2013-01-24-pointe-du-hoc-battle-site-mobile-app.md",
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"filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2013/01/2013-01-24-pointe-du-hoc-battle-site-mobile-app.md",
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},{"title" :"Mobile Gov Resources for 2013!","summary" : "With mobile use growing exponentially and federal agencies implementing customer-facing mobile services for the Digital Government Strategy, we decided to put together a Mobile Gov resource “cheat sheet” with concepts and information we think will be helpful for agencies implementing Mobile Gov in 2013. Here’s what Mobile Gov implementers need to","date" : "2012-12-21T09:55:27-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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},{"title" :"NORAD Tracks Santa App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by NORAD. The NORAD Tracks Santa apps provide a countdown to Santa’s Christmas Eve flight, interactive games and live tracking of Santa’s progress on December 24th. Why","date" : "2012-12-18T02:31:58-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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"filepath" :"news/2012/12/2012-12-18-norad-tracks-santa-app.md",
"filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/12/2012-12-18-norad-tracks-santa-app.md",
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},{"title" :"Using Gamification in Federal Projects","summary" : "Gamification is the practice of using game technology or design principles for something that is not inherently game-like. Some examples include: bronze, silver, and gold badges for reading a set number of books, progress bars in online surveys, leader boards for top grades on an exam, or rewards for attending in-person events. As gamification projects are","date" : "2012-11-30T02:35:26-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"mike-kruger" : "Mike Kruger"},"topics" : {
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile",
"product-and-project-management" : "Product and project management",
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},{"title" :"Smart Traveler App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by Department of State. Secretary Clinton often talks about using “21st Century Statecraft” at the State Department. For us in the website office, this equates to using new tools","date" : "2012-11-20T02:22:34-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"filepath" :"news/2012/11/2012-11-20-smart-traveler-app.md",
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"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/11/2012-11-20-smart-traveler-app.md","slug" : "smart-traveler-app","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/11/20/smart-traveler-app/"
},{"title" :"Centers for Disease Control Content Syndication","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses content syndication to share important health information with a variety of federal public","date" : "2012-11-05T14:13:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
"application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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"filename" :"2012-11-05-centers-for-disease-control-content-syndication.md",
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"filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/11/2012-11-05-centers-for-disease-control-content-syndication.md",
"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/11/2012-11-05-centers-for-disease-control-content-syndication.md","slug" : "centers-for-disease-control-content-syndication","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/11/05/centers-for-disease-control-content-syndication/"
},{"title" :"GSA\u0026#8217;s Child Care Information Portal","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the General Services Administration. The Child Care Information Portal is a responsively designed web site built by General Services Administration’s Office of the Chief","date" : "2012-10-25T15:09:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Apps Life Cycle Webinar","summary" : "Are you creating a mobile website or app for your agency? On Tuesday, October 30, at 11 a.m. we will host a webinar to get agencies thinking about how they can prepare for the entire life cycle of their mobile products—from planning–to implementing—to continually updating and upgrading. This webinar will","date" : "2012-10-24T13:17:59-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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"filename" :"2012-10-24-mobile-apps-life-cycle-webinar.md",
"filepath" :"news/2012/10/2012-10-24-mobile-apps-life-cycle-webinar.md",
"filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/10/2012-10-24-mobile-apps-life-cycle-webinar.md",
"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/10/2012-10-24-mobile-apps-life-cycle-webinar.md","slug" : "mobile-apps-life-cycle-webinar","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/10/24/mobile-apps-life-cycle-webinar/"
},{"title" :"Taking Cancer.gov Mobile","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by National Cancer Institute. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the nation’s leading cancer research agency and part of the National Institutes of Health has a legislative mandate to collect, organize, and disseminate the","date" : "2012-10-02T14:29:55-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
"mobile" : "Mobile"
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"filename" :"2012-10-02-taking-cancer-gov-mobile.md",
"filepath" :"news/2012/10/2012-10-02-taking-cancer-gov-mobile.md",
"filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/10/2012-10-02-taking-cancer-gov-mobile.md",
"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/10/2012-10-02-taking-cancer-gov-mobile.md","slug" : "taking-cancer-gov-mobile","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/10/02/taking-cancer-gov-mobile/"
},{"title" :"Medicare.gov Responsive Redesign","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Medicare.gov is the consumer website for Medicare beneficiaries, caregivers, and advocates. The site includes information about Medicare plans, coverage, and care","date" : "2012-09-13T15:37:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jon-booth" : "Jon Booth"},"topics" : {
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"filepath" :"news/2012/09/2012-09-13-medicare-gov-responsive-redesign.md",
"filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/09/2012-09-13-medicare-gov-responsive-redesign.md",
"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/09/2012-09-13-medicare-gov-responsive-redesign.md","slug" : "medicare-gov-responsive-redesign","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/09/13/medicare-gov-responsive-redesign/"
},{"title" :"SMS or Short Message Service","summary" : "SMS or Short Message Service (Texting) is a mobile device capability where users are able to send short (generally 160 characters maximum) text messages to another user via the use of the keypad or built-in keyboard. Seventy-three percent of cell phone owners use their device to text,","date" : "2012-08-21T13:10:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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"filepath" :"news/2012/08/2012-08-21-sms-or-short-message-service.md",
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"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/08/2012-08-21-sms-or-short-message-service.md","slug" : "sms-or-short-message-service","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/08/21/sms-or-short-message-service/"
},{"title" :"Mobile First Webinar Recap","summary" : "Federal agency mobile implementation is an important aspect of the Digital Government Strategy, so last week the Mobile Gov team and Digital Gov University partnered for a “Mobile First” Webinar. A “mobile first” approach is where new websites and applications are designed for mobile devices first, instead of designed for the traditional desktop. Representatives from government and the private sector","date" : "2012-08-03T09:57:02-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"justin-goldberger" : "Justin Goldberger"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile"
},"branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
"filename" :"2012-08-03-mobile-first-webinar-recap.md",
"filepath" :"news/2012/08/2012-08-03-mobile-first-webinar-recap.md",
"filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/08/2012-08-03-mobile-first-webinar-recap.md",
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},{"title" :"Introduction to APIs","summary" : "There’s an easier way to get content and data into the hands of citizens. Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, are web services that allow people to more easily consume content and data in multiple ways–via mobile devices, mobile apps, innovative mash-ups, and much more. Simply put, “APIs are a better way to get government information","date" : "2012-07-26T09:56:58-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
},"branch" : "bc-archive-content-3",
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},{"title" :"Healthfinder.gov API","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by Healthfinder.gov. The actual healthfinder.gov site was launched approximately twelve years ago, while the API is a fairly recent development that has occurred in the past year and","date" : "2012-07-16T15:19:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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"filepath" :"news/2012/07/2012-07-16-healthfinder-gov-api.md",
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"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/07/2012-07-16-healthfinder-gov-api.md","slug" : "healthfinder-gov-api","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/07/16/healthfinder-gov-api/"
},{"title" :"IRS2Go App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS2Go app lets taxpayers check on the status of their refund, sign up for helpful tax tips or get the most recent IRS","date" : "2012-07-13T15:25:24-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/07/2012-07-13-irs2go-app.md","slug" : "irs2go-app","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/07/13/irs2go-app/"
},{"title" :"OSHA Heat Safety Tool App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the Department of Labor. The Heat Safety Tool provides the heat index for your work site and precautions to prevent heat illness. Why We Did It OSHA developed the","date" : "2012-07-13T14:39:01-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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"editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2012/07/2012-07-13-osha-heat-safety-tool-app.md","slug" : "osha-heat-safety-tool-app","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2012/07/13/osha-heat-safety-tool-app/"
},{"title" :"Next in our Mobile Webinar Series: Mobile First!","summary" : "You need resources, and we are here to help with an excellent new webinar series to jump start your agency’s digital gov efforts. Do you think “mobile first”? A “mobile first” approach is where new websites and applications are designed for mobile devices first, instead","date" : "2012-07-13T11:48:11-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Bureau of Indian Affairs Wikithon","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by Bureau of Indian Affairs.","date" : "2012-07-12T15:04:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"AIDS.gov Responsive Design","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by AIDS.gov. AIDS.gov implemented an innovative model for responsive design by combining the former AIDS.gov and m.aids.gov to a fluid site accessible on computers, smartphones and tablets. View the","date" : "2012-07-11T14:41:20-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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"mobile" : "Mobile",
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},{"title" :"FAA Mobile Site","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA launched a mobile site to cater to the needs of its users on the move. Why We Did It Mobile traffic","date" : "2012-07-11T12:36:05-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"How to Improve an Apps Challenge","summary" : "The contest is over, but your work isn’t finished. Maintain a positive relationship with the community you’ve developed around your challenge. You will want to reach out to them in the future. Close the challenge and present awards Hold an awards ceremony to draw attention to the winners and to your challenge. The team behind","date" : "2012-07-09T02:32:50-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"How to Implement an Apps Challenge","summary" : "Recruiting the right judges, writing clear rules, and ensuring the public can find your apps challenge online will help ensure success. Recruit the judges Reach out to those who have expertise in your topic or are influential in the area. Well-known judges will help you draw attention to your challenge, and the judges are likely","date" : "2012-07-09T02:30:29-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ktrebon" : "Karen Trebon"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Webinar Series Recap: Responsive Design","summary" : "Some agencies are turning to responsive design to support device-agnostic content delivery which was called for in the recently released Digital Innovation Strategy. Last week, GSA’s Mobile Program Management Office held a responsive design webinar in conjunction with DigitalGov University outlining agency experiences with responsive design. Agency experts covered responsive design technical approaches and strategy and you can","date" : "2012-07-02T16:19:34-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Mobile Strategy at the Smithsonian","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian’s Mobile Strategy is designed to be integral to the overall organizational strategy of the institution. This Mobile Gov Experience is a synopsis of a webinar (PDF, 3.3 MB, 18 pages) by Smithsonian’s","date" : "2012-06-29T11:48:52-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"MedlinePlus Mobile Evaluation","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the National Library of Medicine. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) launched MedlinePlus Mobile (m.medlineplus.gov) in January 2010 to provide authoritative consumer-level health information to a","date" : "2012-06-20T03:17:01-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USDA\u0026#8217;s Ask Karen","summary" : "MobileGov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.","date" : "2012-06-08T02:43:37-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Eyenote","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The EyeNote application scans paper money and tells the user the denomination, making U.S. paper money accessible to the blind and visually","date" : "2012-05-31T12:27:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"RIM/Blackberry Mobile Development Webinar Recap","summary" : "The Mobile Platform Development Series was developed to help government agencies learn how to deliver government content–information, data and services–anytime, anywhere and on any device. One way to deliver content to citizens is via applications on mobile devices or native mobile apps. Government agencies need technical expertise on developing apps on the various platforms. Today we bring","date" : "2012-05-16T16:15:33-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"National Contact Center\u0026#8217;s Text Message Program","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by GSA’s Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies, Contact Center Services Division. The National Contact Center’s Text Message Program The","date" : "2012-05-12T14:22:22-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NOAA\u0026#8217;s Release Mako App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Release Mako App was created for fisherman to report their catch and releases of shortfin mako sharks in real time.","date" : "2012-04-26T14:26:08-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"NARA\u0026#8217;s DocsTeach","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by National Archives and Records Administration. DocsTeach is a mobile application developed by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that allows teachers to create and share","date" : "2012-04-25T12:42:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"USA.gov Mobile Apps Gallery","summary" : "In April 2012, the U.S. General Services Administration launched a “full stack” responsive redesign of the federal mobile apps galleries: apps.USA.gov and apps.GobiernoUSA.gov. The full stack includes both a REST API and a complete redesign of the site using responsive design techniques.","date" : "2012-04-10T09:25:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"MyDS Web App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institute of Health has developed a free mobile app for consumers called My Dietary Supplements (MyDS).MyDS gives the user","date" : "2012-03-05T12:08:16-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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},{"title" :"DOL Labor Stats App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. The Labor Stats Application presents the most up-to-date numbers and news releases for top employment statistics published by Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and Bureau of Labor Statistics.","date" : "2012-02-22T15:09:51-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"My TSA Mobile App","summary" : "Mobile Gov Experiences are agency stories about creating anytime, anywhere, any device government services and info. This entry is a story shared by the Transportation Security Administration about their MY TSA mobile app and website.","date" : "2012-02-22T12:28:21-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
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