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Events: Responsive Design and WIKITHONS!
You need resources, and we are here to help with excellent webinars and events to jump start your agency’s efforts. Mobile is heating up this summer, what with the implementation of the Digital Strategy kicking off and anytime, anywhere, any device content being a key tenet. So, mark your calendars. Responsive Design Webinar First up, [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Trends @ Labor
Recent data from the Department of Labor website shows that mobile device use and mobile device traffic are trending up. As we posted last Tuesday, globally mobile device usage leaped from 2% to 8% in June 2010 to 10% in May 2012, according to data from KPCB. How does this translate at the U.S. Department of Labor? [...]
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Digital Strategy & Making Mobile Gov 2.0
Busy week in mobile gov. First, the White House released a memo from the President [pdf] announcing a ”comprehensive Government-wide strategy to build a 21st century digital Government that delivers better digital services to the American people.” In order to ensure that agencies make the best use of emerging technologies in serving the public, I hereby direct each agency [...]
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GSA’s SF Mobile App
The General Services Administration recently launched the Sustainable Facilities Mobile or the SF Mobile App to encourage sustainable facility development. SF Mobile makes it easy for both government and private-sector property managers to identify sustainable practices and evaluate options for implementing them in their renovation projects. The app is available on the Blackberry, Android and [...]
1,314 views | 1 commentMar 8th, 2012 | Filed under Case Study, Challenges, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
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, [...]
745 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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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 [...]
1,289 views | Comments OffFeb 10th, 2012 | Filed under Events, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Strategy, Research, Resources -
Mobile Gov Dialogue Highlights: Mobile & Mission
One hot topic on the Making Mobile Gov Dialogue is the role an agency’s mission should play when creating Mobile Gov. Most users suggest that agency mission should be the starting point when considering strategy. “Don’t start by considering a mobile website; rather, start with your agency/group’s MISSION and then explore what mobile’s unique attributes [...]
1,007 views | 1 commentAug 10th, 2011 | Filed under Case Study, Gov News, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Uncategorized