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Can Federal Agencies Use Getty Images’ Free Share Tool?
Earlier this month, stock photo giant Getty Images launched an embedded photo viewer, that permits sharing millions of its’ copyrighted images for free. The news generated headlines and questions about...
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Ten Earth Day Activities in Digital Government
On this Earth Day, federal social media managers are hard at work, sharing and promoting what government and citizens can do to protect the environment. We’ve compiled a sample of the activities that...
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Visualizing Federal Data
At the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) we have a long history of using data graphics in our reports and congressional testimonies to explain our findings. From photographs, tables, and...
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Sharing is Caring, Adding Social Media Accounts to Search
Content is no longer limited to your .gov website. Social media accounts also contain a treasure trove of information relevant to your site’s visitors. Keeping that in mind, DigitalGov Search has...
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The Federal Register: Improving Visitors’ Search Experience on Agency Websites
The Office of the Federal Register’s mission “informs citizens of their rights and obligations, documents the actions of Federal agencies, and provides a forum for public participation in the...
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Tokens
Increasingly, we’ve noticed that our agency customers are publishing their highest quality images on social media and within database-driven multimedia galleries on their websites. These sources are...
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Tokens: Part II
In the first part of A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Tokens, I explained why we built a social media-driven image search engine, and specifically how we used Elasticsearch to build its first iteration....
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Hear My Tweet: National Museum of American History’s #HearHistory Tweetup
DC was the Silicon Valley of the 1880’s. And Alexander Graham Bell? He was more than just a telephone man. His Volta Laboratory was the premier 19th century innovation center. The work of Bell and his...
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The Content Corner: Catching a Wave
Violka08/iStock/Thinkstock As we all continue to wrestle with the “content beast”, one effective method for generating ideas for content and fleshing out an editorial calendar is to look for trending...
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