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Join ProudCity and ELGL on November 29 for a free Empowering Effective Digital Government from the Top fireside chat to discuss how the City of San Rafael embraced a new approach to leadership and enabled a holistic approach to iterative, proactive, digital public service. Topics Building and empowering the internal team to effectively execute digital...

This is primarily a bugfix and contributed module update release. During the last release cycle, the WordPress Core security update 4.8.3 was applied as Hotfix 1.41.2 the day it was released on October 30 2017. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3...

Over the past months, we’ve worked closely with ELGL and its Digital Working Group to help them re-imagine and execute an organizational digital strategy that broadens their ability better serve local government leaders in an age of constant technological change. As ELGL Executive Director Kirsten Wyatt writes, the process was less about executing IT or...

San Rafael's Rebecca Woodbury and Talia Smith share their experience supporting Santa Rosa’s Emergency Operation Center fire response and recovery efforts over the past few weeks. While Rebecca and Talia highlight ProudCity's involvement with Sonoma County recovery efforts, this resonates most with us: During one of the shift changes at the EOC, Santa Rosa’s City...

When the residents of your city or county need important information during a time of crisis, the seemingly unimportant website suddenly becomes mission critical.This was the case with Sonoma, both the city and county. As fires burned northern California, particularly Sonoma County and the City of Santa Rosa, it immediately became clear to local government...

This is primarily a bugfix and contributed module update release. There is not WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? We alerted the display of the service center...

This is primarily a bugfix and contributed module update release. There is not WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? There should be no noticable changes to your...

Video of the “Online Government Forms and Payments” webinar is now available. See also ELGL's Twitter wrap-up of the presentation. Description Whether it’s permits, parking tickets, registrations or taxes, a critical aspect of government engagement entails online payments. Making online payments available and accessible not only streamlines government processes, but also makes the user experience...

As part of its 2017 Navigator Awards Finalists feature, Route Fifty recognized San Rafael Senior Management Analyst Rebecca Woodbury and the work the city is doing with ProudCity. Excerpt: Creating a new website for a local government isn’t an easy task. There’s plenty to consider and a lot of input needed from various stakeholders before...

Protecting user privacy is an important aspect and duty of any public service organization, and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a fundamental component of online digital government security. In this context, it’s important to note that, starting in October 2017, visitors to non-secure government website forms using Google Chrome will receive a “Not secure”...

This release contains a few features improvements, bugfixes and the WordPress Core 4.8.2 security and maintenance update. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? We added the ability to set the background color on...

ViewPoint Cloud's Rachel Keyser wrote an excellent government-focused "Why You Should Be Working with a Nimble Company" post that includes mention of ProudCity. Rachel cites five reasons why governments should be working with nimble companies: They Can Adapt Quickly They Grow With You They Look to the Future They are More Flexible They Will Attract...

As we've said many times, we're huge fans of ELGL and proud to be Honor Roll Sponsors for the 2017 #ELGLPopUps. #ELGLPopUps bring together local government leaders to discuss the entire spectrum of public sector issues in an authentic, more informal environment than traditional government conferences. The one-day event on September 22, will be held in...

This is a light release, with only one bugfix and few contributed plugin updates. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? There should be be...

Government Technology featured ProudCity in a story on the ecosystem of online government payment service providers. Excerpt: A whole host of companies have sprung up to make government a bit more Amazon-like. Among them are a bevy of firms all seeking to make it easier to pay the government for all the various things citizens...

Join ProudCity, ELGL and Stripe on October 4 for a free Online Government Forms and Payments webinar to discuss how local governments can provide accessible, secure online forms and payments to those they serve. Topics Accepting mobile and accessible payments Setting up online forms and payments in minutes Security standards and protocol Reporting and compliance...

This is a primarily a bugfix release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? The main new feature is the customize the order of list...

Whether it’s Venango Township (pop. 997), Colma (pop. 1,792), De Leon (pop. 2,433) or West Mead Township (pop. 5,249), we here at ProudCity get especially excited when small cities and towns (populations 10,000 and below) join our digital government platform. While everything is big in Texas, one small city we’re pretty proud of is Jarrell,...

We’re proud to partner with ELGL on Launch 2017! The first five ELGL organizational members that purchase ProudCity Onboarding by October 1 will receive a 50% discount off their first-year ProudCity Standard Plan subscriptions. Not an ELGL member? Join today. Learn more about ELGL + Launch 2017.

This is a primarily a bugfix release with a WordPress Core maintenance update. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? There were two large bugs with the Iframe widget and Insert Table button editor...