AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provided the USDA with $390 million available in non-competitive grants to offer WIC agencies looking to innovate their technology. Section 1: The User Interface Layer is the part of the solution that end users engage with. This technology is aging across the U.S.,

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The woman represents public Wi-Fi, and the video is her library’s creative, engaging announcement that Wi-Fi is now available outside of the library building and in the parking lots. This video, and dozens more like it, are the work of the library’s Office of Communications and Marketing. Why is she so happy? It was my first book club!”

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

From 2010 to 2021, the county’s population grew by a whopping 33% to 429,000. between 2021 and 2022.” With a focus on streamlining processes and improving employee retention in the face of hiring challenges, the HR team recognized a strong need to better engage with and provide consistent feedback to employees and managers alike.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages. Still, 50% of transactions were completed in less than 15 minutes, according to the bureau’s 2021 annual report (the most recent report available). Residents have noticed.

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Social Pinpoint

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

As people get used to using them, we can see them playing a huge role in boosting community engagement too. QR codes have gained popularity ever since and the number of scans quadrupled in 2022. Can I Use QR Codes in Community Engagement Too? smartphone users scanned a QR code in 2021. In fact, over 6.6

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Let’s say you launch a constituent engagement initiative and within one year you see a significant rise across various metrics: website hits, comments received and event registrations. For Alanna Reed, San Antonio’s Director of Communications and Engagement, numbers tell only part of the story. Do you call it a success?

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 19, 2022

On Wednesday, July 13, the Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group released the 2021 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government ® rankings, the most comprehensive assessment of how federal employees view their jobs and workplaces. points from 2020 to 2021, falling to 64.5 2021 Best Places to Work rankings.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2023

While inside the library, he decided to study communications in college. Years later, he is working in communications for a library, specifically as Director of Marketing and Communications for Capital Area District Libraries (CADL). But I favor the digital ones because they provide real-time reporting on engagement.”

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I oversee our community engagement, social media, most publications, and other marketing and public relations duties.” “I I met Becky at the Library Marketing and Communications Conference in 2023. I used the tagline for our expansion and renovation project that started a few months later in the summer of 2021.

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I wrote my first post about TikTok in April 2021. Many libraries just didn’t have the staff time to commit to creating engaging, short-form video content. A Pro account will signal to TikTok that you are serious about creating engaging content on their app. TikTok for libraries. But times have changed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

According to a Gartner survey in 2021, digitally advanced government organizations realize more benefits of modernization, including higher efficiency, cost reductions, greater workforce productivity, compliance, and transparency. Continue the momentum by scaling digitization.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Ozlem Aydin is a senior management official working for the Director of the Office of Communications at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This post appeared in a slightly different form November 24, 2021. Favorite.

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Super Library Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Rebecca Kilde is the communication and marketing coordinator for IFLS Library System in western Wisconsin. “Our libraries were open during almost all the last two and a half years and were important resources for some people in our communities. For our libraries, we wanted to increase circulation and engagement.

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Social Pinpoint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Learn how to create positive project outcomes with your online community engagement platform of choice. This final instalment will focus on the best tips to develop and share your public transportation engagement report. This brand-new service was slated to launch in fall 2021 – just a few months later.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Learn how you can also create positive project outcomes with your online community engagement platform of choice. This new service was slated to launch in fall 2021 – just a few months later. DCTA needed a flexible suite of community engagement tools to carry this off in a short amount of time.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

percent of New York renters paid more than 30 percent of their income toward housing expenses—the threshold of being cost-burdened—in 2021. A lack of community trust often has the spillover effect of politicizing housing development and making long term planning difficult, panelists said. “We can’t grow.

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Super Library Marketing

MAY 8, 2023

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library In my freshman year of college, a woman came to my Intro to Communications class to talk about the future of the Internet. It also has limited knowledge of the world and events after 2021. Some are disturbing, especially for libraries. It may generate incorrect information.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Skowera not only sees engagement benefits from offering virtual options, but also environmental and budgetary advantages. The Return to the Riverbend campaign, launched in fall 2021, yielded community input that the city used to create a master plan, released the following summer, for a new riverfront area. Get the guide.

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zencity

JANUARY 3, 2022

But before we do so, we want to quickly look back and reflect on 2021. Over the second half of 2021 alone, the Zencity team attended over 40 government conferences across 22 states – and even crossed the pond to take part in a few UK local authority and policing events. IACP Technology Conference 2022.

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First State Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In her current role, Katelyn leads LiveOn NY’s policy, advocacy, and communications efforts on issues related to affordable senior housing, senior centers, home-delivered meals, home care, and other services for older New Yorkers. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0

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GovLoop

JANUARY 13, 2023

Vision Co-Creation – Craft a new vision, update your current vision and focus on communications and alignment. This shift transforms an organization into one of continuous improvement, and this is what makes the work from a “digital transformation” engagement to “just the way they work now.” That is true transformation.

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 11, 2024

When the Communications Manager role was created at FCPL in 2021 I jumped at the chance to use my skills and experience to promote the library to a wider audience.” Like many of you, Leslie is a marketing and communications department of one. It’s a great mix of literary humor, art, and community.

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GovLoop

MAY 12, 2023

Skowera not only sees engagement benefits from offering virtual options, but also environmental and budgetary advantages. The Return to the Riverbend campaign, launched in fall 2021, yielded community input that the city used to create a master plan, released the following summer, for a new riverfront area.

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zencity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Since then, public trust in police has slightly increased in 2021, yet remains low. Throughout my 32-year career in law enforcement, I have come to recognize that community trust in their local agency is equally important as crime and clearance rates. A call for reflection and engagement. Zencity Blockwise Dashboard.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A whimsical and elegant winter wonderland is in store for attendees of the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association’s (AFCEA) Winter Gala in Washington, D.C. this is the 46 th year for the annual signature holiday gala, focused on mingling, merriment and giving back to the community. Held on Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m.,

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Super Library Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2022

That’s a 100 percent increase from 2021. Library-specific hashtags : Branded hashtags that communicate your library’s tagline or mission, vision, and values, like #BrowseBorrowBloom or #ForMindsOfAllKinds. Clicking on the “Tweets” buttons will give you a complete breakdown of the engagement on each Tweet.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 19, 2022

This overcomes costly and time-consuming process efficiencies and improves communication with third parties. And before you can even get to a point where hospital doctors and patients can communicate virtually, patients need to be brought into the technological fold and digitally engage with primary services. Who are they? [4]

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2021, after 10 years of entrepreneurship, she joined Granicus as the Strategic Lead for CX and Innovation. Mary has extensive experience crafting data-driven digital and engagement programs using a combination of on- and off-line tactics and strategies. Moffat is Prosci® certified and holds a B.S. in Psychology and an M.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Many communities are engaged in waterfront revitalization, but this becomes problematic with the effect of climate change, sea level rise, tides, etc. Rivers are the primary source of drinking water to most communities in the United States. Waterfront revitalization. Drinking water.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 18, 2024

Email and paper communications are more helpful. million applications between 2020 and 2021. From beginning to end, the benefits process is clearer, more seamless and more compassionate. What Has Changed There is a new, mobile-friendly application form and emphasis on plain language and Americans with Disabilities Act compliance.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Here we offer five tips for being an exemplary, engaged and enterprising employee that you won’t necessarily find in those manuals or hear from the hiring manager. Fifty-seven percent of people who resigned in 2021 cited feeling disrespected at work. Ask questions to show your engagement and to encourage others to interact with you.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 22, 2023

As Microsoft Teams is the primary tool for communication and collaboration, customers are looking to improve productivity by integrating their business processes directly into Microsoft Teams via third-party party (3P) applications or line-of-business (LOB)/homegrown application integrations. To enable this, we are rolling out two features.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2021, it received the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development’s Honoring Nations award , which celebrates outstanding examples of tribes that help expand the capacities of Native nations. And in 2022, the tribe opened a transitional housing facility for individuals and families escaping domestic violence.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As Microsoft Teams is the primary tool for communication and collaboration, customers are looking to improve productivity by integrating their business processes directly into Microsoft Teams via third-party party (3P) applications or line-of-business (LOB)/homegrown application integrations. Microsoft Teams for US Government Adoption Guide.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee. to provide this kind of service.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

As Microsoft Teams is the primary tool for communication and collaboration, customers are looking to improve productivity by integrating their business processes directly into Microsoft Teams via third-party party (3P) applications or line-of-business (LOB)/homegrown application integrations.

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Jim Weaver: As part of our IT program and project governance, to mitigate such risks, we have our architecture and security experts engaged in reviewing proposed solutions and then verifying the implementation of those solutions. This article was originally published on GovDevSecOps Hub on November 15, 2021.

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