Government Communications, Internal & External: Event Roundup
Over the past two months, ALI Conferences hosted two government trainings dedicated to improving both internal and external communications within various agencies.
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Real Ways Your Organization Can Make The Most of Facebook’s Algorithm Change
Written by Ally Sherman, Chief. Facebook has been in the news for some problematic issues. Recent scandals around “fake news” and the misuse of data have many wondering about the platform’s credibility and asking what impact this has on, well, everyone. Despite this, Facebook remains one of the biggest players in the social media game
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Don’t Skip This Blog Post and Other Obnoxious Subject Lines: They Work!
With CHIEF being right here in the heart of DC, of course we’re always thinking about politics. While we are strictly a non-partisan shop, that doesn’t mean we can’t learn things from the “industry” of our city. And as a former political staffer, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. Let’s go on a
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2/3 of Organizations Now Use New Internal Communications Technologies
A new study released at the Engage16 annual workforce communications conference last week revealed that 2 out of 3 corporations are investing in employee communications technology. What took them so long? Every CIO and internal communications professional we speak with complain that getting employees to read internal communications has been extremely difficult for a number of years. Studies
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Creating Citizen-Centric Communication
With so many channels and services available, it’s often difficult for government agencies to determine the best way to reach their constituents. At the 2018 Granicus National Summit, we asked three public servants to explain how their agencies chose a digital path forward that effectively engaged their citizens. Our speakers included: Chip Harman, Content
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4 Reasons Why Your Agency Needs Video Closed Captioning
Written by Andre Eggert | Granicus With video increasingly becoming the content of choice for consumers, it’s important to make sure that information is accessible to everyone. A great way to do that is providing closed captioning on all of your video. Need more convincing? Here’s just a few reasons to consider it. It helps
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Let’s Sidecar: A Responsive Approach to Responsive Design
By: Zaid White, Senior Art Director, CHIEF. “Let’s Sidecar” —Admittedly, this is a phrase I have failed miserably at installing into our everyday jargon to describe how designers and developers work together, especially when responsive design is taking shape. And even though we toss the phrase around as more of a joke now to describe
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The Digital Transition: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age
Written by Kori Schulman, originally published on the White House blog, October 31, 2016. President Obama is the first “social media president”: the first to have @POTUS on Twitter, the first to go live on Facebook from the Oval Office, the first to answer questions from citizens on YouTube, the first to use a filter
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BiometricsID: Your Next Generation Mobile Identity
To call the smartphone a revolutionary device is nearly an understatement. The ability to access the Internet from nearly anywhere you happen to be is more than a simple end user convenience, it is a paradigm of thinking that affects web design, finance, marketing, healthcare, active living, digital identity and even how we interact with
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