CIO Handbook
The CIO Council released the CIO Handbook to aide CIOs, Deputy CIOs, agency heads and other senior leaders during transition.
Blogs
Government teams are improving digital experiences every day. Gain insights from their stories, case studies, and innovations.
Three Ways USAGov Outreach Can Help with Your Agency’s Next Campaign
Three Ways USAGov Outreach Can Help with Your Agency’s Next Campaign—Does your agency have an idea for a new marketing strategy? USAGov’s Outreach team can support your agency in all stages of your campaign. We can brainstorm with your team, discuss best practices, and try new marketing approaches to grow together in serving people. Learn how to begin partnering with us. — via USA.gov
Webinar Recap: U.S. Web Design System October 2021 Monthly Call
In this recap of the October 2021 U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) Monthly Call, the USWDS team shares how their community can help teams solve problems together, and what tools and channels we can use to ask questions, get answers, and provide useful feedback.
Webinar Recap: U.S. Web Design System September 2021 Monthly Call
For our September call, we focused on the future of the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS): Where does the design system go from USWDS 2.0? What did we learn from our 1.0 and 2.0 releases? Read key points and takeaways from this month’s presentation.
Federal Leadership and Professional Development
Successful Strategies for Telework and Hybrid Work Environments
Learn from and share with other federal colleagues from across the government strategies for succeeding at working, managing, supervising, collaborating, communicating, and more.
2021
Create accessible meetings
In recent years, how agencies gather, collaborate, discuss, share, and learn has changed from largely in-person meetings and conference calls to virtual meetings. Now, meetings are often virtual, or a hybrid of in-person and remote participants. For this reason, accessibility can and should be seamlessly integrated into your meeting. Use this guide to make your next meeting accessible to attendees with disabilities in compliance with Section 508 and other disability rights laws. — via Section508.gov
FAR Updated To Add Revised Section 508 Standards for Information and Communication Technology
FAR Updated To Add Revised Section 508 Standards for Information and Communication Technology—On January 18, 2017, the U.S. Access Board issued a final rule (the Revised 508 Standards) that updated accessibility requirements covered by Section 508 for Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Read more about the final FAR rule update and changes effective as of September 10, 2021. — via Section508.gov
Start Your Tech Career in Government as a U.S. Digital Corps Fellow
Applications for the first cohort of U.S. Digital Corps Fellows will open on Monday, November 8th.
From Silicon Valley to GovTech: How a Data Scientist Turned Their Passion for Helping People Into a Career in Public Service
Many opportunities are available for technologists to make an impact in public service. See how Avena Cheng, a data scientist at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), turned a passion for improving people’s lives into a govtech career.
This month’s topic: Community, Connection & Contribution. How can our community help teams solve problems together?
2021
Hispanic Heritage Month & Social Media
How To Best Connect With Your Spanish-speaking Audience During an Emergency
The Multilingual Community of Practice is hosting a panel to share some successful social media strategies that you can use to connect with your Spanish-speaking audience during emergencies.
2021
Building a Tech Career in Government
Starting a civic tech career in government is not as unusual as you think. Current GSA employees share how they are building theirs.
USAGov en Español Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Since 2003, one program in GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) has been leading the way in which the government serves the Spanish-speaking community in the U.S. That program is USAGov en Español, the official guide to government information and services in Spanish.
Digital Meets Culture: Getting Your Culture in Line With Your Digital Strategy
Learn how digital service teams in government navigate through the currents of organizational culture and implement change at their agencies.
Plain Language
2021 Federal Plain Language Summit
On 9/21/21, PLAIN’s Fourth Federal PL Summit showcases federal employees’ plain language projects. Topics include COVID-19 agency responses, accessibility, user experience, and career enhancement.
2021
Let’s peer into the crystal ball and look into the future of USWDS.
2021
Document Accessibility: Getting From 5,000 to 0
Document Accessibility: Getting From 5,000 to 0—Our approach to making 5,000 documents on onrr.gov accessible. We’re steadily making progress towards getting all of our documents 508 compliant. It seemed like an insurmountable challenge, but with a little bit of prioritization and coordination, we’re chipping away at the incompliant debt we had accumulated. — via Office of Natural Resources Revenue
Building a Bureau-Wide Usability Collaboration Group: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Geological Survey
Learn about the U.S. Geological Survey’s Usability Collaboration Area in this short interview with the group’s organizer.
In this second part of our analytics case study series, we’ll address how to pull reporting and conduct analysis through the lens of your analytics strategy.
2021
Introducing the U.S. Digital Corps
Introducing the U.S. Digital Corps—GSA, with the White House, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has launched the U.S. Digital Corps, a new two-year fellowship offering a new path to public service for early-career technologists. To build a highly-skilled U.S. Digital Corps that represents the diversity of the United States, the U.S. Digital Corps will recruit passionate, mission-driven technologists from undergraduate programs as well as alternative training pathways such as apprenticeships, bootcamps, and certificate programs. — via General Services Administration
