The U.K just launched their Government Digital Strategy with 11 principles and 14 activities encompassing their approach to moving government into a digital first world. Andrea DiMaio just wrote a good recap on the pros/cons of the strategy and I wanted to highlight a couple of my favorite items and what they mean for otherRead… Read more »
Another great TED talk related to government from Dr. Chris Augeri at TEDxLincoln entitled “The Rise of Information Currency” Discusses: -OODA loops -Social value of data -Open government data -Ushahidi – WordPress for Disaster Response -Incentives Favorite
Love this blog post from the gov.uk team on how to scale agile – it’s a great long article with practical tips based on using agile methodology to build gov.uk site Check out the full article but here are their top 7 tips: 1) Be agile with agile 2) Growing fast is hard 3) Don’tRead… Read more »
I’ve been watching the launch of Gov.uk and there’s lots of really interesting elements they’ve included in the design. One of my favorites is their Gov.UK performance dashboard Couple items I like: 1) Shows real recent overall web traffic and puts it in a context 2) Shows comparison traffic to other agency web sites –Read… Read more »
The Presidential Innovation Fellows team working on RFP-EZ launched a sneak preview last week. It’s a great overview of the project, why it’s needed, and what they are building. Check it out below Favorite
Over the last couple years, I have received questions regarding whether we were officially approved by GSA with our terms of service, and now I have an answer: YES! I’m excited to announce that GovLoop has a new GSA-approved Terms of Service (ToS). We’ve made changes to the ToS to cover all federal employees signingRead… Read more »
There’s been a number of reports of issues with the SAM acquisition system at GSA with a recent report that GSA is sending extra resources (some awesome folks) to help fix the issues It’s easy from afar to complain about problems and we all know how hard it can be to integrate 8 different systemsRead… Read more »
Interesting article from Project MyGov – I’m a huge fan of persona’s – love the Hipmunk chipmunk & NYC’s Birdie (to the right) ———— Humans create websites for other humans to read. So when did we start talking to people like they’re robots? Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen this message on your computerRead… Read more »
I’ve been meeting recently with a number of recent graduates (mainly MPA/MPPs) and I’ve found most of them want “policy jobs.” It’s kind of an interesting situation – these MPA/MPP graduate programs prep them for policy work but honestly there’s not a ton of policy jobs. Most federal openings aren’t about setting policy but aboutRead… Read more »
Governments are starting to realize the importance of responsive design in their web experiences. For those that don’t know, Responsive web design (thanks wikipedia) is an approach to web design in which a site is crafted to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wideRead… Read more »