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GSA Future Focus: Web Scraping—Often referred to as screen scraping, web harvesting, or web crawling, web scraping is a process that extracts unstructured data and text from web pages, and converts it into a form that can be easily analyzed. Learn how GSA’s Emerging Tech team has identified some best practices to help agencies use this technology responsibly and effectively.— via General Services Administration
Your Experience Matters—The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides a broad range of services to internal and external customers, including researchers, visitors, educators, genealogists, students, veterans, information technologists, federal agencies and more. Archivist of the United States (AOTUS) David Ferriero has hired the agency’s first Chief Customer Experience Officer, Stephanie Bogan, to help focus as an agency on the public’s experience. The agency’s management team has also been deputized to become their Customer Experience Executive Council in order to make customer-focused decisions for the agency and move it forward.— via National Archives and Records Administration
A Presidential Innovation Fellow working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs shares how complex organizations can create data-driven roadmaps.
Making It Easier for People to Find Federal Agencies—Finding contact information for a federal department or agency is a top task at USA.gov and USAGov en Español. Our A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies directory is a popular feature and the result of many years of user testing and website user metrics.— via USA.gov
Four lessons learned from the similarities and differences between highly-regulated companies and the federal government.
The questions in this post were curated from attendees of the Deep Fakes and Social Media Webinar, hosted by the SocialGov Community of Practice and Digital.gov on May 18, 2021.
Accessibility: Usability for Every Ability—Accessibility enables full participation, and everyone who works on government websites has a role to play in making federal resources accessible and inclusive.— via U.S. Web Design System
The Federal Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Community of Practice is updating the RPA Use Case Inventory, which provides detailed information on over 300 RPA Use Cases across the federal government.
The article will go over some best practices of implementing A/B testing on your emails.
Are you a Digital.gov Community of Practice (CoP) lead? Find yourself participating in a CoP discussion and wondering what else you can do? We’ve got some suggestions.
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