Thoughts

Ideas, opinions, observations.

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Government release notes

A simple way to keep public service communications open, authentic and regular.

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Cybersecurity standards for government websites

We need better guidance for a more secure digital government experience.

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Using AI to build a personal government technology podcast

I created podcast-like overviews of FedRAMP, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, TechFAR and Zero Trust with Google NotebookLM's deep dive feature.

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Code is digital experience (and law)

Great source code meets machine-readable web industry standards and best practices and – perhaps most important to some – adheres to the code of law.

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The government URL

Anatomy of a proper government website address.

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Analyzing U.S. federal and state government website metadata

How government-managed domains conform to basic metadata practices.

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Metadata, Open Graph and government websites

Complete metadata can have a significant impact on how citizens experience government digital services.

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How government can help build better AI

Beyond policy, proactive engagement and better data management will make government a good steward and partner in responsible artificial intelligence efforts.

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Citizen DX: Government customer experience starts with data

Properly managing and delivering citizen data should be the U.S. government's first CX priority.

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Civic hacking

The soul and grassroots foundation of democracy.

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Open civic organizations

How government agencies, academia, nonprofit organizations and public sector vendors can build open, participatory models of operating.

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Government README

A simple practice can help give clarity to public sector projects and services, and how those impacted can engage with them.

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Git government

True democracy – and great technology – is organic, collaborative, participatory, responsive, iterative, adaptive.

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Virtuous civic circle

By adopting a simple public engagement framework, we can build a more inspired government, together.

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Government RSS

Every government website must have an RSS feed. This guarantees an open, universal standard for syndicating government information.

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Pedigree and public interest technology

The community that supports digital government services should be undeniably representative of everyone.