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Presidential Innovation Fellows

How Serving in Government Made Me a Better Designer and Product Manager

Working in U.S. government sharpened all of my product skills. Here are four practices that techies in any sector can use to build empathetic, effective products.

Clarice Chan

Sep 08, 2020

FAS Works to Enhance Competition

Have you heard? The Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is making exciting progress through the Federal Marketplace Strategy towards implementing new authorities and flexibilities that enhance competition in acquisition. — via General Services Administration

Sep 01, 2020

In this workshop, we’ll address how to assess your web analytics strategy to ensure you’re pulling the most impactful and relevant data to enrich your analysis and understanding of your website performance.

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Tim Lowden

Freddie Blicher

Presidential Innovation Fellows

2 Lessons Tech Leaders Can Learn From Unprecedented Health Research

Presidential Innovation Fellows believe that representation, communication, and data fuel a strong product launch. Here’s how we put them to work at the National Institutes of Health.

Adele Luta

Georgeta Dragoiu

Aug 21, 2020

Join U.S. Web Design System Product Lead, Dan Williams, as we talk about the design system and answer your questions.

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Dan Williams

Suran De Silva

In this webinar, we discuss how to embed crowdsourcing into the culture of a program to the benefit of the project team, and its participants.

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Dr. Ku McMahan

Dr. Jarah Meador

Code.gov Better Know an Engineer: Rayvn Manuel

Code.gov Better Know an Engineer: Rayvn Manuel—We’re back with another installment of Better Know an Engineer. We are pleased to feature a friend of Code.gov and all-around amazing person, Rayvn Manuel; senior application developer and DevOps engineer at the Smithsonian Insitute's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). — via Code.gov

Aug 13, 2020

Take this three-hour online workshop to learn how to write and edit in plain language.

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Katherine Spivey

Panelists will discuss the importance of developing the next generation of women leaders in IT and in the Federal government.

David Shive

Using DevOps to help change entrenched behaviors in organizations.

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Brian Fox

Andrew Clay Shafer

This Week's IDEA

Measure Performance to Make Continuous Improvements

This week, we’re exploring what it means to measure performance, and we’re taking a look at how listening to customers is the best way to continuously improve websites and digital services.

Rachel Flagg

Ammie Farraj Feijoo

Aug 04, 2020

A remote event covering user experience (UX) methods, service design, and managing UX in the government.

Andrew Do

Angela Y. Smithers

Anthony J Schulzetenberg

Brooke Dine

Caroline Kyungae Smith

Katherine B Nammacher

Margo Kabel

Maya Rhodan

Sarah Rigdon

In this session, we’ll be joined by Nicholas Pjontek of Canada.ca. Nick will talk about some of the analytics goals, lessons, barriers, and successes in the government of Canada.

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Nicolas Pjontek

Tim Lowden

Freddie Blicher

Participants will have the opportunity to virtually interact with top Federal CIOs, and discuss career development, leadership, and best practices on expanding a professional network.

Spotlight Story: Pioneering Open Source at the CFPB

Spotlight Story: Pioneering Open Source at the CFPB—Open source software is a fundamental aspect of how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has served the public in its short history. In April of 2012, nine months after opening its doors, they released their source code policy, based on the work of the Department of Defense, along with their first two open source projects. Just six days later, they accepted their first pull request. Though a minor change, this was the first documented contribution to a federal government open source codebase by a member of the public. — via Code.gov

Jul 23, 2020

Innovation

10x Round Two: Submit Ideas by August 5

GSA’s 10x program funds the best ideas from federal employees across government.

Nico Papafil

Jul 22, 2020

When’s the Best Time to Tweet? @USAGovEspanol Experiments with Twitter—A good following on social media is fundamental to USAGov’s goal of getting clear and helpful government information to Spanish speakers around the country. To make sure we’re reaching the right people at the right time with valuable content, our team began to rethink our USAGov en Español Twitter strategy. — via USA.gov