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The API Briefing: APIs Come In Many (Data) Flavors
Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Thinkstock This week, we will look at three different APIs that demonstrate how agencies use different technologies to serve out data. Presenting data in various formats...
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USGS Picture Puzzle: Do You See Changes to the Coast?
USGS If you are a coastal resident, go to the beach, or are interested in digital volunteering, you can be a tremendous help in identifying and classifying changes that storms make to our coast after...
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The API Briefing: EPA’s Water Quality Portal API Merges Three Data Streams
Access to clean water is fast becoming a vital issue in the 21st century. Changing climate patterns are drying up aquifers and limiting the amount of water runoff from thawing snow packs. Drought...
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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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2nd 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...
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10 Years of Digital Government—A Retrospective
vladvvm/iStock/Thinkstock In December of 2004, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued the first Policies for Federal Public Websites. Over the past decade, we’ve seen technology completely...
View ArticleWhat Can I Post to My Personal Social Media Account?
With the proliferation of smartphones and social media use by employees it’s easy to take photos or videos and share them instantly. Being an employee, however, we have to wonder if that awesome photo...
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USGS, Where Citizen Science Is for the Birds
“I tell the interns: In this lab, we’re all about failure. If you’re not failing, you’re not really doing anything.” –Sam Droege, USGS biologist, in Audubon magazine The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)...
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New USGS App Helps Save the Piping Plovers!
Robert Blanchard/iStock/Thinkstock iPlover is a new app from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for data collection about habitats on coastal beaches and the environment surrounding them. That sounds...
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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...
View ArticleMonthly Theme: Building, Evaluating, and Improving Government Services...
While examples of government social media content may initially seem like mere fun—the YouTube video of President Obama on Between Two Ferns or the Transportation Security Administration’s “good catch”...
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As the World Churns: Earthquake Detection via Twitter
allanswart/iStock/Thinkstock When one thinks of social media, usually it is thought of as a tool to keep in touch with friends and family. Behind all the social networking lies vast amounts of data...
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USGS is Asking If You Felt It: Latest Earthquakes
Having experienced everything from little tremors to violent shaking, I know what it is like to live in an earthquake zone. Hiding below a large table or under the sturdy doorframe, and at times with...
View ArticleDigitalGov Podcast: The Secrets Behind CIA Social Media
Julia Child and the OSS Recipe for Shark Repellent: http://t.co/q3cC4QiJhR #SharkWeek #OSS #WWII pic.twitter.com/Idbo1OkPLP — CIA (@CIA) July 9, 2015 The Central Intelligence Agency launched their...
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White House Kicks Off Challenge.gov Anniversary with Wealth of New Prize...
In a call to action issued Oct. 7, the White House announced several new programs challenging citizens to help federal agencies solve problems in areas ranging from space exploration to education....
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Challenges, Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science: What’s the Dif?
There’s more than one way to harness the wisdom of the crowd. In honor of December’s monthly theme, we’re diving into and defining the various ways that federal agencies use public contributions to...
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