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Trends on Tuesday: App Attack!
Agencies can look at what people are currently doing on mobile to help with their own mobile services investment decisions. comScore released their 2012 Mobile Future in Focus Report with data on popular apps. A few ideas to take away. People like to be entertained. On both platforms games and video watching are popular. People [...]
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Budget of the U.S. Government Mobile
The Government Printing Office recently created the Budget of the U.S. Government Mobile web app to allow users access to text and images of the main FY13 Budget book from any device. GPO’s mission is to provide publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, [...]
741 views | Comments OffFeb 23rd, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy -
Leap Year Wikithon 2/29!
You can leap into citizen-facing mobile strategies and other topics at our “Leap Year” Wikithon on Wednesday, February 29th from 3-5! Wikithons are gatherings of Mobile Gov professionals to create and develop content for the Mobile Gov Wiki and discuss various mobile practices. The wikithon theme this time will be DATA and we are looking [...]
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Trends on Tuesdays: Smartphones, Age & Income
According to Mashable and a new study by Nielsen: Smartphone penetration among young people in the lowest income bracket is higher than it is among older people in the wealthiest bracket. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, more than half of respondents who make less than $15,000 each year said they own a smartphone….Making less than $15,000 [...]
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QuitStart App: USA.gov Apps Gallery’s 100th Entry!
QuitStart was created by the National Cancer Institute to help people stop smoking. QuitStart provides help with tracking smoking cravings and moods and monitoring progress toward achieving smokefree milestones. Quitstart is available for iOS devices and NCI describes it as: QuitSTART is a free smartphone app that can help you track your cravings and moods, [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Multi-Screen Views
Gone are the days of people sitting passively in front of their TVs. Today, people are interacting with what they are watching, using the devices in their pockets. According to a Yahoo/Nielsen survey 86% of mobile Internet users (and 92% of 13-24s) are using their mobile devices simultaneously with TV. A quarter of them say [...]
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Mobile Gov Wikithon #4 Recap
The “Bring a Friend” Mobile Gov Wikithon held last week was an overwhelming success! Attendees in Bethesda, MD, Washington, D.C. and those online discussed mHealth initiatives, consuensus mobile good practices and created content for the Mobile Gov Wiki. You can see everything that was done during the Wikithon at this link. Thanks for the attendees [...]
1,288 views | Comments OffFeb 10th, 2012 | Filed under Events, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Strategy, Research, Resources -
The Congressional Record App
The Library of Congress created the Congressional Record App so users can view the daily edition of the Congressional Record and search for other related information on their tablets. The mobile product leverages data provided by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate [...]
1,067 views | 3 commentsFeb 9th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy