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Gov 2.0 Radio: The Promise of Open Data

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The Promise of Open Data: We talk with City of San Francisco CTO Blair Adams, SF innovations manager Jay Nath, and Web developer Tom Croucher about the open access to government data. More Gov 2.0 Radio »

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About Adriel Hampton

Adriel Hampton is chief organizer for NationBuilder, a SaaS platform for organizations, co-founder and producer of the Gov 2.0 Radio podcast, and president of the San Francisco Technology Democrats. He is a professional speaker and advises governments, politicians, NGOs and businesses on social media and technology innovation.

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  • http://twitter.com/hillary Hillary Hartley

    Hi Kristy. You probably saw my tweet, but the Javascript issue was due to a file not getting loaded. I’d encourage you to try it again, and please continue to send feedback. We love having a talented webmaster combing through the site!

    And Alex – thanks for the kind words. Your summation is exactly correct. This site is the product of  listening to our users, analyzing metrics, and thinking outside the box.

  • http://twitter.com/kristyfifelski Kristy Fifelski

    Right on, we’re heading in the right direction! Now with javascript off, menus on homepage load, and search bar works. Looks like interior page stylesheets could use a little positioning tweaking (ex. http://www.utah.gov/blogs/) so main menu still clickable with js off. Thanks for looking into it – I’m sure people across the country will continue to explore the site and offer feedback and ideas in the coming days. One of the things I love about the nature of govies!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeff.margenau Jeff Margenau

    This site is very inaccessible and provides a questionable design.  I use IE 7 at work and I cannot access all the menu items.  Did they do browser testing before launch?  The large graphic on slower connections is a total waste of bandwidth and does not convey any meaningful information to the user.  Oh yes, the graphic is very pretty – but slows down the download time immensely.

    The site is VERY clunky and it is not intuitive at all – unless you want to search.

    I also do not understand the design concept logic.  So if I discover that most people click on page X, would I then put the largest link taking up most of my homepage - page X?  No, in fact it says the opposite.  It says that everyone can easily find page X if that’s what they wanted.