The Countdown has Started for Digital Accessibility Requirements. Are You Ready?
DOJ has released new regulations requiring state and local agencies to make their digital content accessible. Here’s what you need to know.
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A Digital Experience Refresh for a Venerable Institution
The redesigned NYSCA online experience reflects New York Governor Cuomo’s vision for a more efficient, effective, and modern government.
Making The Case for API
Let’s face it. We live in an age of constantly changing, ever expanding technologies. But if used properly, APIs can help.
Social Media Comes of Age Amidst Harvey
Hurricane Harvey is not the first opportunity for social media to play an integral part in emergency communication channels, but it is the most recent and, possibly, most widespread case.
Breaking News: I’ve Fixed Email
If it weren’t for e-mail, society as a whole surely would not be as productive as it is in this day and age. We can converse with co-workers, peers and colleagues in (almost) real time, regardless of their proximity – two offices away or two time zones away. That’s pretty great, right? Anyone?
New Social Media Terms of Service
When many of us are putting in anywhere from 55 to 1,600 hours a week, all to often, social media becomes our “go to” place for maintaining a semblance of human contact – albeit an abnormal one.
IT’S TIME TO ABOLISH THE EXCLAMATION POINT!!!
It is the most wildly over-used mark of punctuation in the English language and is dragging all of us down with its haphazard excitement and indiscriminate emphasis!
Your Peg Channel is Dead (Sort of)
During the past 20 years, or so, as video technology has leapfrogged itself to the point where you can shoot a feature film on your phone, many local agencies began hiring communication specialists and video producers to come up with new and creative ways to get their message out. But, in many cases, the priorities… Read more »
Of Old Horses and New Tech
Today, government communications jobs are so much more than just writing press releases and talking to reporters.
Webby 2016 Government & Civil Innovation Awards
Providing important information to the public is the primary goal of most government websites. Until recently, that often meant large amounts of text, few images, and troves of hard-to-navigate information. However, advancing technology has provided agencies with a way to creatively and inventively share data with citizens without sacrificing the messages they are trying to convey. From cleaner,Read… Read more »