Does Your Agency Need A Chief Digital Officer?
Russell Reynolds Associates, the senior-level executive search firm, says that the last 2 years have seen the rise of the Chief Digital Officer (CDO), a senior executive who sits at the right hand of...
View ArticleChief Digital Officer: Roles and Responsibilities
Mike Kruger is the New Media Manager at the department of Commerce. In my previous blog post, I asked if your agency needs a Chief Digital Officer and before you answer maybe you’d want to know what...
View ArticleTrends on Tuesday: Federal Agency Mobile Gov Trends in 2013
Today we want to tell you about the federal agency trends we saw this year in the development of public facing mobile products. Digital Government Strategy drove Mobile Gov Development Digital...
View ArticleNOAA National Weather Service Meteorologist Twitter Use Shows that All...
During the run up to a recent winter storm, Twitter was aflutter with reports of 20-30 inches of snow falling across wide swaths of the Midwest. Unfortunately for snow lovers, those rumors were highly...
View ArticleDouble Digit Crowdsourcing Competitions Launch in February
This is a phenomenal month for federal challenge and prize competitions with 12 new programs launched in February. The challenge.gov platform usually averages four to six new challenges a month, so...
View ArticleData Innovaton with Census at #HackForChange
Do you want to build an application, product or business that uses Census Bureau data? There are opportunities to give feedback and get involved. Two years ago, the Census Bureau launched its...
View ArticleDigitalGov IRL: 6 Ways To Get It Right
This morning I was walking down 18th Street, crossing Pennsylvania Avenue by the World Bank when I heard what sounded like “a test from the Emergency Broadcast System.” I looked behind me and realized...
View ArticleOpen Data Takes Center Stage at User Conference
This week over 16,000 business leaders and data visionaries from around the world will convene for the 2014 Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Users Conference in San Diego. Commerce...
View ArticleCensus PoP Quiz Mobile App Challenges Knowledge of State Statistics
The U.S. Census Bureau today released Census PoP Quiz, a new interactive mobile application that challenges users’ knowledge of demographic facts for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The new...
View Article2nd U.S. Public Participation Playbook Draft Responds to Public Contributions
The new second draft of the U.S. Public Participation Playbook incorporates changes that were proposed from nearly 100 suggestions submitted after the first week of public comment, with more...
View ArticleData Delivers: Challenge Culminates in National Demo Day Event Slated for...
VISIT EVENT PAGE REGISTER NOW The U.S. Census Bureau this week will showcase some of the most innovative data-driven apps soon to spark change in cities from coast to coast during its first-ever...
View ArticleA Six Month Update on How We’ve Been Using Data, and How it Benefits All...
Memorandum: A Six Month Update on How We’ve Been Using Data, and How it Benefits All Americans To: The American People From: Dr. DJ Patil, U.S. Chief Data Scientist Date: August 19, 2015 In my last...
View ArticleCustomer Experience Toolkit
Customer Experience (CX) is defined as the sum of all experiences a customer has with your organization. Since government is often a sole-source service provider (e.g., there’s only one place to pay...
View ArticleMoving from Open Data to Open Knowledge: Announcing the Commerce Data...
Opening up government to better serve the American people has been a key priority of this Administration from day one. On his first full day in office, President Obama signed the Memorandum on...
View ArticleThe Data Briefing: Mapping the Big Data Ecosystem of U.S. Agriculture
The Congressional Research Service recently released a report (PDF, 688 kb, 17 pages, January 2016) describing the big data ecosystem for U.S. agriculture. The purpose of the report was to understand...
View ArticleAnalytics.usa.gov: Now with Agency-Specific Dashboards
We’ve added agency-specific dashboards to analytics.usa.gov! Starting today, you’ll see a dropdown from the main analytics.usa.gov page that allows you to view the same dashboard, but filtered for...
View ArticleThe Data Briefing: Introducing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s New...
My first column when I came back from last year’s summer sabbatical was on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) PatentsView project. PatentsView became one of the Department of Commerce’s...
View ArticleThe Content Corner: On-The-Fly Content Strategies (Round-offs, Back...
As effective marketers and communicators, we are constantly seeking new and improved ways to reach our audience or customer base. These days, our “online lives” intersect with every activity we are...
View ArticleThe Data Briefing: Harnessing the Internet of Things and Synthetic Data to...
Two significant items in federal government data in the last few weeks: The Department of Commerce releases the National Water Model. The National Water Model provides a comprehensive model of river...
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