Monday, November 1, 2010

New Federal Collaboration Site is now LIVE


A few weeks ago the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at the General Services Administration finally launched apps.gov NOW (in beta since August) a set of tools that federal employees can use to support their open government plans and engage citizens. The toolkit includes a blogging tool, two wiki tools, a challenge tool (to launch challenges and idea contests) and two discussion forum tools.

Here's how the system works:
  1. Sign up for a free, policy-compliant tools. (Federal agencies only)
  2. Agencies pick a product. They have blogs, a challenge tool, wikis and forums.
  3. Apps.gov will build it for the agency and send them an email when it's ready
  4. Agencies can select a theme, upload their logo, and add content.
The platform is still in beta and we're interested to see how agencies and users interact with the system.

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