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Government Technology featured the ProudCity Service Center launch in its weekly civic tech wrap-up: San Rafael, Calif., now has two portals — one on its website and one on its Facebook page. The city is an early adopter of the just-launched ProudCity Service Center, a tool that can be embedded directly into Facebook, a mobile...

This release is primarily a maintenance release. It contains a few new ProudCity features, bugfixes and third party plugin updates. There are no WordPress core updates 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...

As part of our continued effort to help cities streamline and scale their digital offering to best meet residents where they are, today we are launching ProudCity Service Center, an easy way for cities to provide core government services on Facebook, as a standalone mobile app or page and an embedded widget on an existing...

This release marks the launch of the ProudCity Service Center. There were also a number of bugfixes. There are no WordPress core updates 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...

Voting is important, and we believe (and the analytics show) that residents are actively seeking voting information when visiting their city’s website during election season. That’s why we created ProudCity Vote, an easy way for cities to quickly add comprehensive, timely voting and elections information to city websites. ProudCity Vote can be added to a...

This release contains a new Vote app for the 2016 US General Election, a new interactive calendar widget for events, and an improvement to the department contact sidebar. There were also a number of bugfixes. There are no WordPress core updates in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for...

This release contains a ton of new features, widgets, bugfixes, and contributed plugin updates. We have added a number of contributed plugins to add functionality as well. There are no WordPress core updates in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL...

I wrote a guest post for TechCrunch on the investment opportunities around government technology. Excerpt: In “B2G: The Excitement Of An Old-Line Industry,” OpenGov founders Zac Bookman and Joe Lonsdale highlight four points on why investment in government disruption is a ripe opportunity: 1) Old technology provides opportunities for order-of-magnitude improvements; 2) Big institutions signal...

This release contains a plethora of new features, widgets, bugfixes, and contributed plugin updates. There are no WordPress core updates 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 menu selection box...

This release contains the WordPress core 4.6.1 security update. It also contains many new features, bugfixes, and contributed plugin updates. 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 WordPress core 4.6.1 release fixed two...

We're proud to be honored as one of the "top 50 local government companies" by the ELGL Choice Awards: Our “award-winning” members have spoken on the best companies working in the local government arena. The inaugural ELGL Choice Award recipients have been selected using two criteria: the number of nominations received by each company (75%)...

Government Technology featured ProudCity in a recent article discussing the concept of beta testing new government websites: Erika Mattingly, West Carrollton’s public relations coordinator, said the redesign began with guidance from the developers at ProudCity, a gov tech startup focused on digital services. Since much of the platform was already worked out, the beta launch...

This release contains the WordPress core 4.6 update. There are also feature updates, bugfixes, and contributed plugin updates 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? Read the WordPress core 4.6 release...

This is a bugfix and contributed plugin update 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? There should be very few changes that you notice....

We’ve been quietly launching small cities on the ProudCity platform, but we’re particularly proud of our new partnership with San Rafael, Calif., and the holistic approach they’re taking to changing how government works. San Rafael is the largest city in Marin County, immediately north of San Francisco, and has launched the beginning of a digital...

ELGL features a post by San Rafael (Calif.) Senior Management Analyst Rebecca Woodbury that mentions ProudCity: I established a team of staff and we sat through vendor demos. We asked the vendors how their product and company aligns with our values; how they will ensure that users find answers to questions quickly; and how their...

Government Technology featured ProudCity in a recent article discussing business models and increasing investor interest in companies specifically supporting government operations: ProudCity offers an out-of-the-box, enterprise-level website platform to small- and medium-sized cities that want the latest technology, but don’t want the price tag that comes with a large Web design firm. Founders say they...

This is a contributed plugin update release. There is no WordPress core update in this release and no updates to the ProudCity custom modules. 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...

Spark Plug Labs President and Founder Monica Phillips hosted NextRequest founder and CEO Tamara Manik-Perlman and me on her weekly radio show Powerful Conversations. Show description: Many government agencies still don't have access to the right technology to keep the public informed. Learn how ProudCity and NextRequest are helping government collaborate with the people they...

Slides from our "WordPress and Government" webinar with the National Association of Government Web Professionals are now available.