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},{"title" :"The API Briefing: Five Federal APIs for Building a Government Jobs Finder Mobile App","summary" : "The spring semesters are winding down at the universities where I teach. Many students are looking for summer internships or their first job after graduation. Of course, I talk about the opportunities in government through the Pathways program, the Presidential Management Fellows, or the various agency-specific internship programs. I’ve demonstrated USAJOBS in my classes, but","date" : "2015-05-20T10:00:43-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"bbrantley" : "Bill Brantley"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Our Customer is Your Customer: Working Together to Improve Search on .Gov Websites","summary" : "We know search engines aren’t Magic 8 Balls, but that’s still how we expect them to behave. We want them to answer our complex and burning questions based on just a few words. And we’ve felt that frustration when the top search results don’t serve our needs, and the results page itself makes us work.","date" : "2015-05-14T11:10:59-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"dmccleskey" : "Dawn Pointer McCleskey"},"topics" : {
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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" : {
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},{"title" :"Using Personas to Better Understand Customers: USA.gov Case Study","summary" : "Personas are fictional characters that describe an organization’s customer behaviors, emotions, attributes, motivations, and goals. They are an important tool to share customer insights and understanding across an organization. Personas also serve as a check to make sure your organization’s actions meet the needs of the majority of customers, including visitors to your website, contact","date" : "2015-04-06T11:49:07-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michelle-chronister" : "Michelle Chronister"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Avoid Weak ‘Links’ in Your Digital Chain","summary" : "Users don’t like surprises. Unexpected or unwanted content undermines the credibility of your agency and frustrates users who come to your website looking for specific information. Using links appropriately in your website content is one way to build trust with users, according to an article by Kara Pernice of the Nielsen Norman Group. Here’s a","date" : "2015-02-25T11:10:25-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Top 10 Things (We Think) You Don\u0026#8217;t Know about DigitalGov","summary" : "Things you don’t know about this website, DigitalGov.gov, that is. It’s our first birthday, and we’re celebrating by sharing some fun facts with you. A more sober look at our strategy can be read on our 6-month post, but this is a party post! w00t! 10. We’ve published an impressive 480 articles and counting (this","date" : "2015-02-19T01:17:13-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gwynne-kostin" : "Gwynne Kostin"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Don't Forget the Long Tail: It Can Deliver Value","summary" : "Top tasks matter. Visitors come to your website with specific goals in mind. Using a top-task methodology can be particularly useful when redesigning your homepage.","date" : "2015-02-13T11:10:37-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ammie-farraj-feijoo" : "Ammie Farraj Feijoo"},"topics" : {
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"content-strategy" : "Content strategy",
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},{"title" :"From Elephant to ELK: How We Migrated Our Analytics System to Elasticsearch","summary" : "As I mentioned in a recent blog post about image search, we’re avid users of Elasticsearch for search. We also recently ported another vital part of our system to Elasticsearch: analytics. This post is a technical deep dive into how our analytics system works, and specifically how and why we used Elasticsearch to build it. Background DigitalGov Search is","date" : "2015-01-07T11:15:44-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"loren-siebert" : "Loren Siebert"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Follow the Clicks: A Look at Click-through Rates on Government Websites","summary" : "How important is it to show the most relevant result at the top of your search results page? Very. Searchers expect to find what they’re looking for quickly and easily—and without scrolling—when they search on government websites. If a Web page isn’t “above the fold” as one of the first listings on the first results","date" : "2014-11-12T10:00:51-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ammie-farraj-feijoo" : "Ammie Farraj Feijoo"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Tokens","summary" : "Increasingly, we’ve noticed that our agency customers are publishing their highest quality images on social media and within database-driven multimedia galleries on their websites. These sources are curated, contain metadata, and have both thumbnails and full-size images. That’s a big improvement in quality over the images embedded within HTML pages on agencies’ websites. After some","date" : "2014-10-28T11:15:34-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"loren-siebert" : "Loren Siebert"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Recap of Social Digital Search Webinar","summary" : "Content is no longer limited to .gov sites. As mentioned in a recent blog post, Sharing is Caring, Adding Social Media Accounts to Search, DigitalGov Search uses Flickr, Instagram, and YouTube to populate image and video search results. On September 30, 2014, I presented with Justin Herman from the Social Media Community of Practice about: What","date" : "2014-10-14T11:17:31-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rachel-mundstock" : "Rachel Mundstock"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Federal Register: Improving Visitors’ Search Experience on Agency Websites","summary" : "The Office of the Federal Register’s mission “informs citizens of their rights and obligations, documents the actions of Federal agencies, and provides a forum for public participation in the democratic process.” As the winner of the Bright Idea Award, FederalRegister.gov is clear and easy to use, but most citizens rarely frequent it. More frequently they","date" : "2014-09-24T10:00:55-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rachel-mundstock" : "Rachel Mundstock"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Analyzing Search Data in Real-Time to Drive Decisions","summary" : "DigitalGov Search recently rolled out a new open source technology stack, which gives the team access to real-time analytics and dashboards to monitor search trends.","date" : "2014-05-07T13:00:27-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
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