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Six Tips for Measuring Success in Challenge Competitions
You’ve run a challenge and prize competition, selected your winners, and distributed the prizes. If you think you’re done, guess again. There’s much more to challenge and prize competition success than...
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What to Do with Big Data?
Shortly after taking office in 2009, President Obama launched the Open Government Initiative, an effort to increase transparency, participation, and collaboration in the federal government. The...
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Feature Your Consumer Tools on WhiteHouse.gov
The White House launched a hub for consumer-facing tools across the federal government, and they want to feature your agency’s tools that can help make people’s lives easier. As of now, they are...
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Defense Finance and Accounting Service Goes Responsive
Let’s face it: Some of us work to live. Some live to work. And all of us look forward to pay day. If you work for the Department of Defense, the Executive Office of the President, the Environmental...
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Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Location Data Improving
Imagine a world where your mobile device delivers ads for goods and services within 100 yards of your location. According to Thinknear, a leader in targeted mobile advertising, that future may soon be...
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The Trend is Diversity, in Challenge and Prize Competitions
maroznc/iStock/Thinkstock The U.S. government has launched more than 45 challenge and prize competitions so far in Fiscal Year 2014. What trends are we seeing? Well, the trend is…diversity. That might...
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Trends on Tuesday: Are only 11% of Websites Responsive?
totallyPic.com/iStock/Thinkstock Roughly 1 in 9 (11%) websites have adopted responsive Web design, according to research conducted by Guy Podjarny in January. While the number has risen in the last 7...
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Welcome to Mobile Gov Month on DigitalGov
What’s your mobile itch? A long time ago at a workshop not so far away…we asked the 40 federal government innovators who had released native apps this question. We wanted to know their biggest...
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Responsive Web Design Challenges Webinar Recap
A website redesign is never an easy task, but when responsiveness is one of your redesign’s key goals, special considerations come into play that can present unique challenges. In the September webinar...
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The API Briefing: Home Energy Saver
It is fall when the weather becomes colder, and people start firing up their furnaces. While I was working on putting in more insulation and installing a programmable thermostat, I wondered if the...
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Find Fuel During Disasters with Lantern Live App
Who to call? Where to meet? What to pack? How to find fuel? Make sure your personal disaster preparedness plan includes how to quickly find functioning gas stations in your area with help from the...
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Crowdsourcing Month: An Overview
scanrail/iStock/Thinkstock This month we’ll be highlighting articles about crowdsourcing. These are the programs that use a variety of online mechanisms to get ideas, services, solutions, and products...
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The API Briefing: Save on Holiday Travels with FuelEconomy.gov Web Services
We are in the middle of the holidays, and that means much driving to visit friends and relatives. I was just in Kentucky this past weekend where I spent a total of eight hours driving. I am sure many...
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7 Ways to Ignite User-Centered Design at Your Agency
Jannoon028/iStock/Thinkstock So you’ve done a couple of usability studies, and a few people are starting to “see the light.” Now you’d like to take it to the next level and help your organization...
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Saving Energy, One Green Button at a Time
kav777/iStock/Thinkstock Conserving energy is not a shot in the dark. Millions of people can now shine a light on their electricity usage as a result of a dynamic public-private partnership based on...
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8 New Federal-Friendly Apps and Services
DenisKot/iStock/Thinkstock Tackling technology tasks just got easier. Recently, federal agencies negotiated eight new Terms of Service (TOS) Agreements for free apps and services. DigitalGov has an...
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Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Web Lessons From the CrowdSource Mobile Testing...
Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock Practice makes perfect. But in the mobile world, it’s testing that makes products better. For federal agencies that have developed their own apps or...
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The API Briefing: Fulfilling the D(e)SIRE for Renewable Energy with the...
The Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency® (DSIRE®) provides information on incentives and policies for renewables and energy efficiency in the U.S. This joint project by the...
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The API Briefing: Free Federal Energy and Economic Information Delivered...
Gunnar Pippel/Hemera/Thinkstock Back in November 2014, I wrote about the Federal Reserve of St. Louis’ FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API. A user can access 238,000 economic trends through FRED®...
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The API Briefing: Making a Difference One Microtask at a Time
I recently found an app that provides a great service through crowdsourcing. Be My Eyes connects visually-impaired people with volunteers. Using the smartphone’s camera, the volunteers can perform...
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