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Making Mobile Gov: Ideas for Apps
We had a huge influx of participation in the Making Mobile Gov dialogue last week. Much of it was in our new “Suggest an App” category. Some app ideas so far include iPassport – get a badge for every national park or monument that you visit. Collect and publish the latitude and longitude coordinates of [...]
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Trends on Tuesdays: Smartphone Apps
According to research firm comScore Of special note A look at the top smartphone app categories revealed that Weather apps had the largest audience reaching 31 million smartphone owners, or 40.4% of the total U.S. smartphone audience. Social Networking apps closely followed with a smartphone audience of 29.4 million (38.2% reach). Read more at comScore. [...]
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Making Mobile Gov: Design Phase
With your help, we’ve discovered the case for Mobile Gov and discussed ten challenges to agencies trying to use mobile technologies to achieve their missions and better serve the American public. Our next step is to gather the smart minds of people in government, industry, nonprofits, academia and the general public to Design Mobile Gov. What Tell us! [...]
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Trends on Tuesdays: How People Use Their Phones
ABI Research reports Almost three quarters (73%) of mobile phone users (both smartphones and other types) in the United States use their phones to visit social networking sites daily, sometimes more than once each day. Other popular activities on mobile phones include Checking email (80%) Checking weather and reading news (63% each) Playing music (53%) [...]
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Making Mobile Gov: Discuss Intergovernmental Sharing
This last topic, intergovernmental sharing, is not about Kumbaya. It’s about leveraging what agencies are already doing, jump-starting efforts, and solving a problem once–instead of dozens of times. But there are authorities, budgets, and regulations that can make this smart move a challenge. Share your own experiences and Discuss Intergovernmental Sharing. What are you waiting [...]
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Making Mobile Gov: Discuss Mobile Technical Expertise
Mobile isn’t just a mini-website. So begins the discussion on a challenge that all agencies have named, finding mobile technical expertise. Mobile devices are small. Their operating systems are new and frequently changing. Federal agencies need to tap pioneering technical experts to create usable and useful mobile solutions for the public. And, we need to [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Sleeping & Smelling
During the Going Mobile webinar last week, somebody asked how to help people in their agency understand that mobile is a critical investment. One technique is to arm yourself with facts. That’s why we do Trends on Tuesdays. Today’s Trends focuses on how mobile and technology is changing behaviors and expectations. First, people don’t want [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Anyone Checking In?
There has been a ton of media buzz (and dollars invested) on services that let people “check-in.” Facebook Places, Foursquare and Gowalla are examples of services that let people check in to let their friends know where they are. Venues are increasingly offering discounts or coupons to people checking in. According to comScore, in March [...]
1,340 views | 1 commentMay 17th, 2011 | Filed under Industry News, Trends