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This Weekend: Event List for Civic Hacking
Our fabulous colleague Jeanne Holm is ready for the #hackforchange events this weekend and summarized some tips, notes and links to resources on Data.gov. Great things will happen this weekend!...
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DigitalGov IRL: 6 Ways To Get It Right
This morning I was walking down 18th Street, crossing Pennsylvania Avenue by the World Bank when I heard what sounded like “a test from the Emergency Broadcast System.” I looked behind me and realized...
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Three Ways Agencies Are Using Social Media in Mobile Products
As highlighted in this Trends on Tuesday post, time spent on mobile phones—about 3 hours per day—has surpassed that of daily PC usage. This yields a significant opportunity for consumer interaction...
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Trends on Tuesday: Are Mobile Devices The “Center” of Social Universe?
TCmake_photo/iStock/Thinkstock Mobile devices are moving closer to the center of the social universe, according to this Sproutsocial article. Platforms like Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter are...
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Trends on Tuesday: Maximizing Your Mobile Moments
The rise of mobile device ownership is rapidly changing the way we, and our stakeholders, interact with organizations and information. From local weather to the status of our train, we look to our...
View ArticleThe API Briefing: How APIs Provide Localized Information – NOAA’s Weather...
The two featured APIs this week are excellent demonstrations of personalizing federal government data by where a user lives. Federal agencies collect a considerable amount of community data, from the...
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Open Data Takes Center Stage at User Conference
This week over 16,000 business leaders and data visionaries from around the world will convene for the 2014 Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Users Conference in San Diego. Commerce...
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FEMA’s Responsive Disaster Assistance Website Helps Survivors Find, Apply for...
Hurricane Arthur, the first named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall in North Carolina, July 3, as a Category 2 hurricane. It was no Sandy, but Arthur nevertheless reminds us...
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Safe Swimming This Summer (Can You Say That Four Times Fast?)
You don’t have to try too hard to get people into the water during summer. But swimming the healthy and safe way? Well, everyone could use help on that. Whether you are a swimmer, lifeguard, pool...
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How to Find Your Open Data Hotshots
Stocktrek Images/Stocktrek Images/Thinkstock How can you find the top 5 users of your open data? We were recently asked this question on the Open Data listserv, and while this information can be a good...
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#PrepareAthon 2014: Disaster Preparedness in the Palm of Your Hand
If there was one thing we learned on September 11, 2001, it’s that you can never be too prepared for a disaster of any magnitude. September is aptly named National Preparedness Month and the...
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Saving the Whales With Just Your Smartphone: West Coast Edition
Saving the whales just got easier for West Coasters with the latest version of the popular Whale Alert app. This free “feel-good” iPhone/iPad app, developed by NOAA’s Office of National Marine...
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10 Years of Digital Government—A Retrospective
vladvvm/iStock/Thinkstock In December of 2004, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued the first Policies for Federal Public Websites. Over the past decade, we’ve seen technology completely...
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How Six Agencies Are CrowdSourcing with Mobile Apps
Mobile devices allow the public to interact with government in new and game-changing ways and users expect those interactions. As a result, many agencies are taking advantage of native apps for...
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Big in SocialGov in 2014: Services, Access and Participation
Social media for public service is a diverse field that uses platforms and data from both the private and public sectors to improve citizen services, make them easier to access and deliver them more...
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The API Briefing: NASA and USPS Explore the Holographic Computing Frontier
Big news in the technology world as Microsoft unveiled HoloLens and Microsoft’s use of holographic computing in the upcoming Windows 10 release. Holographic computing or augmented reality uses...
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Be a Citizen Scientist with NOAA’s CrowdMag App
Citizen scientists, stand up! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) improve the accuracy of magnetic navigation by...
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Hiring For Your Digital Needs
Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock The increasing presence of big data and all things digital will require the federal government to hire more techies. The skills brought by techies will...
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The API Briefing: How Essential Is Government Data to the American Economy?
Andrei Tsalko/iStock/Thinkstock I grew up when home computers were first being introduced to the general public. I bought my first computer, a Commodore 64, after spending a summer of mowing lawns and...
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The API Briefing: Making a Difference One Microtask at a Time
I recently found an app that provides a great service through crowdsourcing. Be My Eyes connects visually-impaired people with volunteers. Using the smartphone’s camera, the volunteers can perform...
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