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Online Open House and Mobile Strategy Webinar Today!
Please participate in our online open house at our Mobile Gov Dialogue today starting at 1:30 p.m. The goal is to spur discussion on our dialogue to create a Mobile Gov Community toolset on this Wiki with Mobile Gov practices, policies, samples and guides. You can get details about participating here. Also today, the Smithsonian’s [...]
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MMG Design: Online Open House
We wanted to let you know about a couple of special events we’re hosting this Thursday, July 28th to help us build, promote and learn more from each other about Mobile Gov. Brainstorming Open House Thursday afternoon, beginning at 1:30 pm EST we will be hosting a live brainstorming dialogue on the Mobile Gov Dialogue to get [...]
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Mobile Gov Apps Theatre
Here is a list of all the exciting mobile applications that were presented today at the FOSE convention. Today’s Doc-iPhone App brought to you by the National Archives and Records Administration USA.gov from General Services Administration Science 360 for iPad created by National Science Foundation Library of Congress Virtual Tour from the Library of Congress [...]
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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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My Food-a-pedia from USDA
Stay healthy this summer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s My Food-a-Pedia mobile website. The USDA developed this great tool to help people find information on the foods they’re eating. Using this tool, users are able to look up nutritional information on over 1,000 foods, and compare them to one another to make healthy decisions. [...]
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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: Mobile Data & Infrastructure Standards
We are winding through the last of our challenges to Making Mobile Gov with our discussion on mobile data and infrastructure standards. Data and infrastructure standards can help agencies improve the quality and development speed of mobile products. Right now, their is no common platform to share code and other building blocks of mobile among agencies. [...]
1,101 views | 1 commentJul 12th, 2011 | Filed under Gov News, Making Mobile Gov