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Get to Know the Virtual Student Federal Service

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.

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Posts by Bridget Roddy Posts by Nora Dempsey

May 24, 2018 2018

Government Launches Login.Gov to Simplify Access to Public Services

Joel Minton, a member of the U.S. Digital Service, is working with GSA’s Technology Transformation Service as the director of login.gov. Tom Mills is the Chief Technology Architect at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In early April, the U.S. Digital Service and 18F launched login.gov, a single sign-on solution for government websites that will enable

Posts by Joel Minton Posts by Tom Mills

Aug 28, 2017

The Data Briefing: FINDing Great Global Development Data Visualizations Courtesy of the State Department

Federal agencies have been releasing some fascinating data visualization tools in the last year. Recently, the State Department unveiled the Beta version of FIND or the “F Interagency Network Databank.” From the description in the FAQ: “The F Interagency Network Databank (FIND) is an online tool that enables users to explore and analyze national level

Posts by Bill Brantley

Aug 10, 2016

Build Empathy With Stakeholder Interviews, Part 2: Conversation

How to run user-interviews and synthesize and integrate the results into the teams shared understanding

Posts by Andrew Maier

Jul 29, 2016

Search, Buscar, Поиск, جستجو, Cari: Creating a Good, Multilingual Search Experience

Government agencies across the United States publish content in a growing number of languages to do the business of the country. In 2015, DigitalGov Search dramatically expanded support for languages on our search results page, expanding from just English and Spanish to support 68 different languages.

Posts by Dawn Pointer McCleskey

Aug 31, 2015

Picking Up the “Slack” for Team Communication

You have a question about a project. You ping a coworker, who texts another colleague, who emails a listserv and receives 3 responses. And the problem is: where will your supervisor find the answer next month, when someone else asks the same question? Corralling

Posts by Ashley Wichman

Jul 30, 2015

State’s ShareAmerica Takes a Very Social Approach

Social media is front and center at Share.America.gov, a U.S. Department of State site managed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, that describes itself as a “platform for sharing compelling stories and images that spark discussion and debate on important topics like democracy, freedom of expression, innovation, entrepreneurship, education, and the role of civil society.”

Posts by Coqui Aspiazu

Jul 17, 2015