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Making Mobile Gov Project
Making Mobile Gov was a three phase multi-media project created by the MobileGov Community of Practice to help federal agencies discover, discuss and design a citizen-centric path to mobile government...
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Solving a MobileGov Mystery: Using Open Source CMS to Implement Responsive...
Responsive Web design is widely-known as a go-to solution for designing a website to fit on any device’s screen size. As we found in our February workshop, federal agencies are implementing it for...
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Trends on Tuesday: Are PCs Obsolete?
Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com/Thinkstock We’ve seen (and experienced) a dramatic growth in mobile consumption in recent years. From app downloads to tablet ownership, the use of mobile devices...
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No More Beta in Congress.gov’s Responsive Website
Congress.gov ushered in the new fiscal year by removing the beta label from its URL two years after it launched. During this period, the Library of Congress not only extensively tested how the site...
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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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Trends on Tuesday: America’s New First Screen
denphumi/iStock/Thinkstock It has finally happened: Mobile has bumped TV as America’s first screen. Recent analysis from Flurry Analytics, which included data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, found...
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Defense Finance Accounting Services Use HHS Code to Make Mobile-Friendly Tables
Government mobile code developed to help make tables mobile-friendly in one agency has now been used in another agency’s mobile efforts. Last month, Clair Koroma told DigitalGov readers about code...
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Trends on Tuesday: Global Efforts Underway to Update Mobile Accessibility...
Horsche/iStock/Thinkstock Federal agencies do not get a free pass on accessibility for mobile—as we stated earlier this month, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act applies to ALL information and...
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Trends on Tuesday: Adults Use Mobile Devices Most of the Time
Millennial Media released a new research report, Connected Consumers: Gaining Insights Across Screens, examining U.S. digital audiences from January 2014 until January 2015 with some interesting...
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Help Us Add Resources to the Updated Mobile User Experience Guidelines!
luvemakphoto/iStock/Thinkstock Government agencies need to make sure their mobile websites and native apps don’t become one of the estimated billions of applications that end up in the app graveyard....
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Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Web Audiences Abandon Sites with Interstitial Ads
tzahiV/iStock/Thinkstock David Morell, a software engineer with Google, posted an interesting case study from the tech giant, sharing data about how users interacted with interstitials (ie webpages...
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USDA Puts Hunger on Vacation This Summer
The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service is helping to put hunger on vacation this summer with their Summer Meal Site Finder, a Web and mobile tool that will provide the location of summer meal sites to...
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Trends on Tuesday: The Impact of ‘Mobilegeddon’ on Non Mobile-Friendly Sites
Adobe Analytics, Adobe Digital Index Adobe released its quarterly Adobe Digital Index report this month, which showed websites that aren’t mobile optimized are seeing more than double-digit drops in...
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Trends on Tuesday: Web Standards Advocate Advises Adaptive Web Design for...
This August, Aaron Gustafson, Web Standards Advocate at Microsoft, industry thought leader and speaker, and an author who wrote a leading book on adaptive web design, spoke to the government tech...
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Wherever You Go, There We Are: the Geolocation API
No matter how you go mobile, you can meet your user’s needs. Recommendations based on location are plentiful, particularly on native apps. But don’t fret, agencies with mobile websites: you can also...
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Trends on Tuesday: 10 Mobile, Government and Tech Trends for 2016
As we move into 2016, here are 10 trends I foresee flourishing around mobile, technology and government: The mobile-majority tipping point in government. Many agencies are already past this point, but...
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