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July 29, 2016

Live streamed demos for exponential transparency and information sharing

By Will Sullivan

This spring, the eRegulations Notice & Comment team began building out a new feature set for the platform. To demo the work as we iterated on it, we faced a challenge of finding a way to do connect frequently with the dozens of interested parties. We settled on live streaming our demos through a video website that is accessible by most government agencies, doesn’t require extraneous plugins to operate, allows you to easily stream, but also automatically creates a viewable file afterwards at the same URL.

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July 28, 2016

Bret Mogilefsky: Finding the big good in cloud.gov

By Melody Kramer

Bret Mogilefsky spent most of his career working in the game development industry. He came to the government seeking the best way he could have a big impact and do big good.

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July 26, 2016

New pilot aims to streamline notice and comment process

By Andre Francisco , Will Sullivan

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began asking the public to comment on a new proposed rule that would affect how the EPA tracks hazardous waste as it moves around the country. This rule is also the pilot of the new notice and comment feature of the eRegulations platform.

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July 26, 2016

Buying better digital products part 2: Setting the product vision and strategy

By Amy Wilson , Clara Tsao

This is the second in a series of three blog posts that provide a step-by-step guide to how we led the inception workshop.

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July 22, 2016

Build empathy with stakeholder interviews, part 2: Conversation

By Andrew Maier

In the first post of this series, I covered what stakeholder interviews are, why they’re valuable, and how to prepare for them. In this second post, I’ll cover how to actually run the interviews as well as some tips for synthesizing and socializing what you learn.

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