This month, we’ll take a look at the development process for a USWDS component and demonstrate how we start with a problem and work to a solution that could be shared across other websites.

Tori Garten will explore the multi-tiered challenge of understanding and governing federal digital policy in a complex and ever-changing digital world.

A day of talks and conversations on how to advance plain language in government communications, hosted by the federal Plain Language community of practice.

Designed to build collaborative public-private partnerships and inform federal employees, this day-long event will feature presentations from industry and government leaders, automation platform providers, automation systems integrators and consultancies, emerging technology experts, and more.

We will hear from the teams behind the PRA Guide and explore why and how it was built, the methods they used, and what the team is doing to ensure a sustainable path for the future.

In this talk, we will review how Recreation.gov is built and operated to achieve its uptime goal for millions of yearly transactions.

Matt Ross, of LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions Government & Advocacy team, will share tips and best practices on how to improve your agency’s use of content to maximize engagement with your core audience.

Build upon your audience report knowledge and learn how to leverage these reports to better understand your audience.

Join Dan Williams, U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) product lead, as he walks through the design system and answers your questions. This month we’ll take a look at bootstrapping USWDS, including how to add USWDS to a project and start designing in minutes.

This in-person training for an update on plain writing principles and the Plain Writing Act of 2010 took place at GSA.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. While often referred to as the research arm of Congress, it is hardly limited to lawmakers. It is open to the public who, in fact, are also helping to make their digital collections more accessible and available to all.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been on a journey to improve their data reporting, using and iterating on machine learning, from algorithms to deep neural networks with lessons for everyone on this path.

What are some examples of misunderstood metrics, and how and when should you use them? We’ll talk about these metrics and their potential misinterpretations and pitfalls.

Overview of the HUD Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) IT team, program, structure, and their shift to DevOps.

In part two of this multi-part YouTube Live series, learn how User-centered design is a practice honed by the American tech industry

In our July meeting, the USWDS team and special guests walk through migrating sites to USWDS 2 and take any questions you might have.

Learn how you can work with the new investment fund for technology products in the government.

Learn how to develop creative content for social media, make your photos stand out, and sharpen your Instagram skills.

Come and help us plan for this year's federal report card review.

The Open Opportunities program is a “win-win” for federal employees looking to refresh their skills and U.S. agencies seeking talent, energy, and enthusiasm from across a diverse cross-section of the federal workforce.

A two-hour workshop with Presidential Innovation Fellows to learn how to give your data its best story possible.

This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest. Remote participants will be able to join in via Google Hangout. Anyone with a federal .gov or .mil address is welcome to attend.

We’ll talk to members of various agencies to find out how analytics programs and tools are governed at that agency.

In part one of this multi-part YouTube Live series, learn how civic technologists work to better our government.

Join the U.S. Web Design System team as we walk through the system’s design tokens and take any questions you might have!

A day focused on designing a better customer experience with and within government.

Presentations that highligh the potential and impact of crowdsourcing through citizen science and prize competitions in the U.S. government

Come join the Plain Language community on the 12th of June and learn how to develop an agency brand voice!

Come and learn all about Search.gov! The site search for federal government websites

The Opportunity Project engages government, communities, and the technology industry to create digital tools that address our greatest challenges as a nation. Learn how this initiative is making government data more accessible through cross-sector collaboration.

Come learn all about Executive Core Qualifications. Cheryl Abram, Lead Evaluation for OPM’s Federal Executive Institute (FEI), will be discussing how to assess, achieve, and demonstrate ECQs.

Join us to learn about the latest developments in the mobile citizen experience. and discuss recent developments and highlight opportunities

Join the U.S. Web Design System team as we talk through the recent update to 2.0

Learn how Analytics.usa.gov, the public window into how the public interacts with federal government websites, uses an API and allows you to query data in machine-readable formats.

An overview of how your agency can participate in this year’s VSFS program.

Sponsored by the User Experience Community of Practice (UX CoP) and DigitalGov, this event is an opportunity to share experiences and lessons learned in UX and network with other UX practitioners from across the government.

Need help solving a problem? Join Challenge.gov to learn how federal agencies can use prize competitions to reach innovators in novel ways.

Join federal, state and local governments and the broader community in an exploration of crowdsourcing approaches to address the opioid crisis.

Come take a walk through the Search.gov indexing process from start to finish.

We’ll demo the Advanced Analysis tool and show how you can use it to better understand your data and create drag-and-drop reports!

Learn how the Library is utilizing user-centered design to invite the public to explore, transcribe, and tag historical materials through a new open source platform.

Find out how the U.S. Data Federation’s work can help you. The team will give an introduction to the problems the U.S. Data Federation seeks to address, describe its approach, and share its vision for the future of the initiative.

Join us for an overview of the DHA Usability Lab, and the resources they provide to improve customer experience.

This seminar adapts principles of plain language to the context of speaking, covering not only wording but also structure and integration with visual aids.

This is the first installment of GSA’s Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, where we look at how to use crowdsourcing to reach beyond your walls and source talent and enthusiasm.

We have a lot of forms in government, and many of them would benefit from better design. In this talk, Caroline Jarrett will explore a curriculum she’s working on about how to design forms.

Reginald Gant, a human resources specialist for the Office of Learning, Strategy, and Workforce Development at the Social Security Administration, will be discussing what branding is, why it is important, and the 6-step branding process.

This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest.

In this webinar, Freddie Blicher, an analyst for the Digital Analytics Program, will discuss how to think about sessions and unique pageviews in reporting and content analysis.

We'll discuss how to document and publicize your formal and informal plain language work — teaching, training, reviewing, or copyediting.

How should designers collect data and how can they use that data to inform their work? Dalia El-Shimy, UX Research Lead at Shopify's Montreal Office, will share how her team uses mixed methods research in support of its design decisions.

For this event, DAP has partnered with the fine folks who run the Federal Privacy Council's Tech Tuesday Series to teach us how to measure, analyze, and improve experiences for users visiting privacy pages on your agency websites.

In this next installment of the Emerging Technology Leadership Series we will discuss with Laura Manley, director of Harvard TAPP, what agencies should know about better understanding and managing potential risks from promising emerging technologies.

This is an opportunity to discuss what agencies need to know about current issues in emerging technologies for IT modernization and form consensus on inter-agency collaboration and resource development, and shape initiatives that empower teams across government.

Join us for our traditional winter finger-food potluck where we’ll discuss the Clarity 2018 conference and plan out our 2019 meetings.

Come and learn more about the recent updates to fedramp.gov and the resources available to help you through the FedRAMP authorization process.

We will discuss the Federal Plain Language Report Card and how to address the issues the report card brings up.

Live FedRAMP webinar to discuss changes to R311 - Specific Requirements: FedRAMP

We’ve teamed up with our friends at CFPB to bring you a two-part series on A/B Testing.

Learn about recent website updates and resources available to help you through the FedRAMP authorization process.

We’ve teamed up with our friends at CFPB to bring you a two-part series on A/B Testing.

Come and learn more about the recent updates to fedramp.gov and the resources available to help you through the FedRAMP authorization process.

This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest. Remote participants will be able to join in via Google Hangout. Anyone with a federal .gov or .mil address is welcome to attend.

This online event will cover the Goals feature in Google Analytics.

A half-day symposium on emerging technologies with leading agencies, industry, and civic collaborators.

Evan Papp will talk about a video and story he produced while traveling internationally in Africa.

This online event will focus on how to track specific events and write JavaScript to maximize the tag manager experience

The U.S. Web Design System team will show you how to get started with USWDS 2.0: how to set up your project colors, fonts, and more.

This online class will provide an introductory training on how to use Digital Analytics Program (DAP) google analytics data.

How agencies can align their emerging technology for government services programs with Cross-Agency Priority Goals (CAP Goals) on Performance.gov and other strategic priorities.

Mina Hanna is the chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems Policy Committee. He will share what federal managers need to know to understand this increasingly complex and expanding field.

Join us for this hour long webinar to receive an introduction on the Civic Service Design Tools + Tactics, a set of practical ways to gather insights from the people who depend on your services in their own environments.

During this 45 minute webinar, we will focus on responding to industry feedback from the May 2018 guidance that FedRAMP released to inform Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and agencies on the “rules of thumb” to consider when developing the FedRAMP authorization boundary for their cloud service offering(s).

The federal Plain Language community is holding their first all-day summit in Washington D.C., and you’re invited!

This online event will cover how to check if behaviors change when people are using keystrokes to click, which might give insight into how users with disabilities interact with your site

During this 45 minute webinar, we will focus on responding to industry feedback from the May 2018 guidance that FedRAMP released to inform Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and agencies on the “rules of thumb” to consider when developing the FedRAMP authorization boundary for their cloud service offering(s).

The Emerging Technology Leadership Series, hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration Emerging Citizen Technology Office, is a six-part livestream pilot to enhance the modern federal workforce with training, education and awareness of emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Blockchain, Social Technologies and Virtual/Augmented Reality.

Do you want to learn how to create a successful video strategy from beginning to end?

This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest. Remote participants will be able to join in via Google Hangout. Anyone with a federal .gov or .mil address is welcome to attend.

Join the the Plain Language Community of Practice for an hour-long conversation about how best to revise forms and convince your agency that the long-term benefits outweigh the cost.

Federal employees who have been involved in running a prize competition for their agencies at any point during fiscal years 2017 and 2018 should attend this information session on prize reporting.

This month, the USWDS team will share what's coming up in version 2.0 which is set to launch later this summer.

Join us for a 90 minute demonstration and talk with Steve Krug, where he will share how you can get started making usability fixes, no matter what your full time job is.

This online class will dive deeper into the benefits of integrating Google Search Console with your independently managed Google Analytics account

Join the Code.mil team for a discussion on open source in government and a look at the important work they have been doing on Code.mil to enable greater adoption of open source at the DoD.

Join us for our monthly conversation with designers and developers across the government.

Join Brad Frost as he talks about design systems and the role they play in creating a successful, collaborative structure for modern organizations.

Join Search.gov as they walk you through the fundamentals of how search engines monitor your content and pull relevant data from your pages.

Learn how U.S. college students working remotely can be virtual interns for you and your federal government teams through the Virtual Student Federal Service.

This half-day online class will expand upon the basics of Google Analytics.

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Program Management Office and the GSA Emerging Citizen Technology Office (ECTO) are hosting a conversation to help agencies develop proposals for technology modernization projects.

Crowdsourcing experts from around the federal government come together to discuss trends, success stories and lessons learned in the use of competitions.

Learn about the essential features of Search.gov and tour its Admin Center.

Join us for our monthly conversation with designers and developers across the government.

This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest. Anyone with a federal .gov or .mil address is welcome to attend.

This online event will cover how to create a campaign URL in Google Analtyics and how to effectively implement it.

This talk will focus on how using the top tasks approach will help you deliver what your customers want to make it easier and faster for people to do things they need to do with government.

The U.S. Federal Emerging Technology monthly meeting for government employees to share knowledge, forge consensus, and build shared resources and programs.

Join the Multilingual and Video Production Pros Communities of Practice for a talk about a video the CFPB created, for a Spanish speaking audience.

The USAGov team will talk about their new Partnership Toolkit and focus on how government agencies can partner with USAGov to market various programs and services.

This online event will focus on events in Google Analytics

The Ethics Working Group in GSA's Technology Transformation Service hosts a presentation about data trusts; a legal structure designed to manage data, code, and other digital assets.

Join the Video Production Pros Community for our first meeting, to share inspiration, to discuss the future of the community and how you can get involved.

The March meeting of the Plain Language Community of Practice will focus what makes an infographic easy to understand

The FedRAMP team will walk through the Continuous Monitoring documents that were released January 31, 2018.

This quarterly meeting brings together federal employees from a range of agencies to discuss trends, success stories and lessons learned in the use of crowdsourcing competitions.

This online class will provide an introductory training on how to use Digital Analytics Program (DAP) google analytics data.

This in-person meeting of the Plain Language Community of Practice will focus on volunteers.

Virtual open office hours to answer your questions about the U.S. Digital Registry.

Join the CX Community for their first meeting of 2018 where CRM in government will be discussed.

In our next monthly users call, the U.S. Web Design Standards core team will share what they’re working on in 2018.

Learn about your legal obligations to limited English proficient individuals (LEP) as a federal, state, or local government agency. We’ll provide an overview of national origin discrimination and offer practical tips for overcoming language barriers and language access program planning.

Monthly meeting of the Plain Language Community of Practice.

Virtual open office hours to answer your questions about the U.S. Digital Registry

This interactive talk with a USAGov team member will highlight the digital response in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria.

First monthly inter-agency form for the Emerging Citizen Technology program.

Come learn how to create a simple, compliant government website, using Federalist, GitHub and the U.S. Web Design Standards.

This online event will cover the overview of the FedRAMP Tailored Baseline for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) with Low-Impact Software-as-a-Service (LI-SaaS) Systems.

This event will provide concrete tips and examples of how to reach more Spanish speakers needing and looking for government information through social media

In this online event, we'll discuss how to use tools that are designed to import data and visualize it without report exports.

In this online event, PLAIN co-chairs will provide a recap of international plain language initiatives discussed at the 2017 Plain Language Association International conference in Graz, Austria.