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Government Web Managers Conference Presentations Online

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The presentations from the Government Web Managers Conference are now online. There’s a wealth of useful information in these slides, relevant to all web managers, not just government ones. The highlights for me were:

Janice Nall from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, describing her risk-taking ways as the CDC tries everything from Second Life [...]

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2008 Government Web Managers Best Practice Award Winners

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Congratulations to…
CDC.gov
The Centers for Disease Control have really been a leader when it comes to adopting new technologies to reach out to the public.  They use email updates, RSS, podcasts, blogs, Second Life, Whyville and other tools to get their message out.  Their site is attractive, easy to use and almost makes it fun to [...]

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Government Web Managers Conference

May 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

On Monday and Tuesday, I attended the Government Web Managers Conference held in Arlington, VA.  This two-day conference brought together federal, local and state web folks from around the country to listen to expert speakers, hear about the latest web tools and discuss how to improve government websites.  
A major focus of this year’s conference was [...]

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