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GovTechNerd It's the same old song...
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DC fires contractor hired to build $12 million school data system.
GovTechNerd Today, I compared a citizen-built version of a service to the government's own version. Guess which one was easier to use?
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Government could build great citizen services, but needs to stop turning a blind eye to user experience.
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Brian Drake has some interesting commentary on last week's Gov 2.0 Summit: There were a few areas where I felt the conference just didn't quite hit the mark. First was the whole "Government as a Platform" theme. I found myself...
GovTechNerd Thanks everyone! We had our best day ever at GovTechNerd because of your support of the new case study on crisis communications. :-)
GovTechNerd Check out our latest case study!
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Case study on how New York City's public schools communicated with the public during the H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak in spring 2009.
GovTechNerd Friday is a great day to do some quick and effective search engine optimization!
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Gwynne of on-dot-gov has some great tips for quick and effective search optimization. Go for it!2. Use normal words. Speaking of not knowing, search engines can't translate your arcane, governmentese into something findable. Especially when you are using your own...
GovTechNerd Personally I don't see O'Reilly's vision as being this stunted, but it's an interesting critique nonetheless. --Greg
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Very interesting critique on The Breaking Time:The problem here is that for better and worse, O'Reilly is seeing government as most of us do, from his own perspective. Thus a technophile's faith in gadgetry and a mogul's love of private...
GovTechNerd Should government websites be able to use cookies? When I was in Congress, we weren't allowed to use Google Analytics for this reason. Crippled my style a bit, but I understood why.
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From this morning's New York Times:The Office of Management and Budget is developing the new rules. Officials say they recognize that people must be told that their use of Web sites is being tracked -- and be given a chance...
GovTechNerd This is especially applicable to government agencies as a lot of this has to do with siloing and internal bureaucracy.
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Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.
GovTechNerd Great tips for government agencies.
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Presentation by Melissa Rach to Kane Camp attendees 7.30.09
GovTechNerd Federal cloud computing could be a total game-changer, no? Will it eventually reduce infrastructure costs or just shift them?
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GovTechNerd I promise we're not dead! Just getting some final things arranged so we can go big-time later this month. :-) --Greg
GovTechNerd No kidding! This is exactly why Keystone UX is opening for business. Government can do better.
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Despite spending enormous amounts on Web-based initiatives, government agencies often fail to meet users’ needs online. ...
