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Tools for Government Web Managers

We've gathered a list of links to shared tools and services for web managers of government agencies. Many of these resources are free or of nominal cost to U.S. government agencies.

If your agency (U.S. federal, state, local government) offers a tool or service that can be shared with other government agencies or if you know of a tool or service that can be shared with the government web community, please email us.

Contract Vehicles

• USA Contact Center Services—USA Services (GSA) provides services to help federal government agencies manage contact, call, and customer services centers

Search Engines

• USASearch.gov Affiliate Program—Free search engine for government websites
  

Usability Tools and Labs

• Usability Testing Environment Tool (UTE)
  
• HHS's Usability Lab
  

Wiki/Collaborative Space

Wiki tools available for government agencies:

• OMB's MAX Federal Community – Executive Branch only
  
• GSA's Collaborative Work Environment – Incubator space only, for intergovernmental communities exploring public-facing or closed collaborative work environments
  
• GSA's Core.gov Collaborative Tool – wiki-like, collaborative environment for developing federal enterprise architecture components

Widgets

Federal Hurricane Response Widget (Web Tool) – The Federal Hurricane Response widget is a web tool to help share information during a major emergency with links to authoritative federal government sites on how to get help; finding friends and family; health and safety information; how to donate and volunteer; and a summary of what the government is doing. The widget is available for anyone to put on their websites, their MySpace pages, and their blogs and includes a link to the embedding instructions.

 

Content Lead: Natalie Davidson

Page Released: September 9, 2008