xmlns:annotate="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/annotate/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" http://www.rssgov.com/ News about how RSS is being used by international, federal, state, and local governments en-us Ray Matthews 2004-12-01T00:41:38-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000134.html State CIO J. Clark Kelso wants to make government more accessible to the citizens of California. His November "California State Information Technology Strategic Plan" presented to Governor Schwarzenegger provides a blue-print for providing greater efficiences in IT services, offering more accessible service, and doing it for lower costs. What's missing? The plan neglects RSS, a low-cost, open source technology that many states are using to save money and make their services more accessible. California Ray Matthews 2004-12-01T00:41:38-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000127.html The State of Virginia was recently recognized by the Center for Digital Government with a third place ranking in the Best of the Web and Digital Government Achievement Awards. The recognition came largely for Virginia's new syndication and alert services. In accepting the award Governor Mark Warner said, "Our real-time online live help customer service continues to set the pace for the nation, and the portal's desktop alerts via live RSS feeds ensure that Virginia.gov users always have access to the most current information." The VIPNet portal and its RSS feeds are managed by the Virginia Information Providers Network. There are currently at least 34 feeds. Virginia uses RSS feeds not only for alerts, but also as a monitoring service that keeps citizens informed of new resources and services added to the portal. Virginia Ray Matthews 2004-11-21T22:36:12-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000125.html The State of Delaware has two new RSS newsfeeds for agency news and press releases and proposed and final state government regulations. The feeds are featured by links right off the state's homepage, Delaware.gov. State Governments Ed McNeeley 2004-10-05T19:47:36-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000114.html Missouri Governor Bob Holden this week awarded a Governor's Award for Quality and Productivity to the State Portal Newsfeed Development Team. This annual award that recognizes excellence in service, efficiency and innovation went to employees from 17 different state agencies who developed a system for state agencies to share the state's news feed portal at little or no cost to the agency. This system currently publishes the news from 18 government agencies, offices and organizations at the top of each hour on the state homepage, in addition to providing continuous newsfeed to web sites in the public sector. Missouri Kevin Lanahan 2004-09-03T08:23:19-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000111.html The National Association of Legislative Information Technology (NALIT) will be sharing "Web Tips, Tricks and Techniques" for building Legislative RSS feeds at their 2004 Professional Development Seminar in beautiful Burlington, Vermont, September 8-11, 2004. Panelists include key IT players from Virginia, Nevada, and Utah. Several states are now using RSS to provide users with notices of new Web content or to distribute newsletters. At least two states are now generating legislative feeds directly from databases. This article previews some of what they'll be showing from the states of Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island. Legislatures Ray Matthews 2004-09-01T19:52:04-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000110.html The State of Missouri has created a number of departmental RSS news feeds. The most recent headlines of most feeds, but not all, are aggregated to a centralized agency news portal. Every hour the State Webmaster scours feeds on her agency servers to update this portal. Missouri Ray Matthews 2004-09-01T12:51:20-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000104.html Almost every Web site has a what's new section or page. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio shows us that RSS syndication is a great way to allow your customers to monitor what's new on your agency's website. Ohio Ray Matthews 2004-03-23T14:58:42-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000091.html Some efforts have been made by the federal government and states to create RSS feeds for emergency notifications and alerts. Much information is available on traditional websites, but surprisingly little is being syndicated. Independents outline how government and business can work together building RSS feeds to make our lifestyles and communities safer. U.S. Federal Government Ray Matthews 2004-01-15T14:59:17-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000090.html The Wisconsin Historical Society reports to Jenny Levine that they now offer three new RSS feeds. Web Development Coordinator James Ellis says that his is the first government agency in Wisconsin to use this technology. Wisconsin Ray Matthews 2004-01-15T08:17:34-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000074.html Arkansas has joined the growing number of states syndicating agency produced headlines for its citizenry using RSS. The Arkansas Government eNewsRoom is a news portal featuring a RSS 0.91 feed that indexes news releases in PDF format. Arkansas Ray Matthews 2003-12-01T16:10:49-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000070.html MIT, Harvard, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announce the formation of a loose association of interested U.S. state and local governments to promote sharing of software under open source licenses. State Governments Ray Matthews 2003-11-17T14:08:57-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000036.html Two new U.S. Supreme Court opinion feeds now join RSS feeds that have been available from the West Virginia Supreme Court and other courts. Courts Ray_Matthews 2003-05-21T09:01:47-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000007.html The Fifth Annual State GILS Conference, hosted this year by the State of Illinois, was a great success. U.S. states have been meeting ad hoc for the past five years to develop Government Information Locator Services to promote access to... State Governments Ray_Matthews 2003-04-10T10:05:08-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000006.html During the past four years, Utah and about half the other states have cooperatively developed State Government Information Locater Services. Within this group of states, about eight, with the assistance of the State of Washington State Library, have developed search... State Governments Ray_Matthews 2003-03-19T16:40:17-07:00 http://www.rssgov.com/archives/000005.html Those monitoring U.S. eGovernment progress and news should take a look at Multimedia Victoria, the Victorian Government's Repository of eGovernment Resources. Of particular note is its archives of State Government websites and egovernment reports. To find such a great resource... State Governments Ray_Matthews 2003-03-19T15:18:28-07:00