Digital.gov Communities of Practice
Communicators
Improve written and verbal communication to make government more effective.
Contact Center
Explore methods of service delivery that improve customer experience in government contact centers.
Multilingual
Expand and improve digital content in languages other than English.
Plain Language
Promote the use of plain language to provide better service to the public.
Social Media
Improve social media outreach and performance.
User Experience
Create better user-centered products for the public.
Web Analytics
Make better decisions using web analytics and other optimization strategies.
Web Managers
Create a better online experience for the public alongside government web content managers.
Other Communities of Practice
because they overlap with our mission.
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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Working to advance the cause of APIs in the federal government.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Supporting and coordinating the use of artificial intelligence technologies in federal agencies.
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Challenge & Prize
We encourage public participation in crowdsourcing competitions to find innovative government solutions.
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Cloud and Infrastructure
A community for those who support their agency’s IT modernization efforts, and want to learn about application rationalization, data center optimization, and federal cloud computing.
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Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science
We work across government develop best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating crowdsourcing and citizen science initiatives.
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Customer Experience
We are an interagency group of customer experience practitioners.
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DevOps
The practice of operations and development staff participating in the entire service lifecycle to operate rapidly changing resilient systems at scale.
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Federal Evidence and Evaluation
For federal executive branch staff interested in evaluation and evidence-building. Connect with peers, share information, access resources and trainings, and sign up for events. Features content to support federal agencies as they implement the Evidence Act.
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Federal Information Security Educators (FISSEA)
The organization, formerly known as the Federal Information Systems Security Educators Association (or FISSEA), serves as a professional forum for federal government information security professionals to assist agencies in strengthening their employee cybersecurity awareness and training programs. FISSEA also holds an annual conference.
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Federal Leadership and Professional Development
Providing federal employees with seminars on leadership, professional development, and strategy.
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Federal Program and Project Management (FedPM)
The Federal Program and Project Management (FedPM) Community of Practice is the central source for the sharing of program and project management expertise across the entire federal government.
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Federal Technology Investment Management
We share best practices and lessons learned to improve IT cost transparency across government.
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Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM)
The Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAMSC) is the principal interagency forum for identity management, secure access, authentication, authorization, credentials, privileges, and access lifecycle management.
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Innovation Adoption
Our purpose is to build innovation and intrapreneurship capacity across government by investing in and nurturing innovation, intrapreneurship capabilities, and the innovation experience.
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IT Buyers
The Information Technology (IT) Buyers Community of Practice (ITB CoP) brings together acquisition programs, contract vehicle programs, and procurement specialists to create a community of federal IT buyers who share their experiences and scale their expertise across government.
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Mindful FED
A community that offers guided meditations, team trainings, and curated digital resources for federal employees to boost mindfulness, and cultivate wellbeing and resilience in the workplace.
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Open Data
A community listserv and working group that unites 900 open data leads at federal agencies, data stewards, and all others in government interested in open data, enterprise data inventory, civic tech, and data-driven government issues.
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OpenGov
The Interagency Open Government Community of Practice is where we talk about transparency, open-participation, and collaboration across agencies.
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Records management
These communities of interest are for federal staff seeking to improve records management across the government.
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Results-Oriented Accountability for Grants
Our community engages stakeholders around the President’s Management Agenda (PMA), and the Results-Oriented Accountability for Grants Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goal.
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
A collaborative body designed to rapidly accelerate the adoption of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology across the federal government.
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Section 508 IT Accessibility
To support people working to enhance access to federal information technology (IT), we identify and promote best practices for compliance with Section 508 law, and conformance to the Revised 508 Standards.
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TechAcq
IT acquisitions are at the heart of federal IT modernization efforts. They support agencies in delivering modern, digital services to the public more effectively and efficiently.
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U.S. Web Design System
A community for anyone building federal websites with the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) or considering it for a future project.
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Video Production Pros
Video Production Pros brings together passionate storytellers, artists, social gurus, strategists, and video production experts from across the U.S. government.