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This release contains integrated payments with Gravity Forms, a new slideshow widget, and a number of stylistic tweaks to the homepage in particular. 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? Homepage style and header...

Engaging Local Government Leaders was kind enough to let us share our thoughts on how city governments can better serves residents through software-as-a-service. Full story: Government (Software) as a Service

Government Computer News featured the West Carrollton's launch and ProudCity's next pilot program initiative: Setting up on ProudCity was easy, West Carrollton Public Relations Coordinator Erika Mattingly told GCN. The beta site was built in about one month, with only Mattingly herself and one secretary working on it. “To be honest, when we started the...

The ProudCity Pilot Program gives cities a chance to collaborate closely with ProudCity and test and give feedback on new product developments. Cities receive one year of free ProudCity services, and we work directly with pilots to assess their current digital systems, how they can be optimized, and then help them quickly onboard to our...

This release contains a number of stylistic tweaks and the new "Helpful" widget in the footer actions bar. 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? New "Helpful" button in the action bar above the...

StateScoop interviewed ProudCity CTO Jeff Lyon and me about the company public sharing the ProudCity platform code. “Our philosophy around building technology is to really not to lock government in,” Fretwell said. “Our platform really gives them the freedom because we feel like we can have a competitive advantage around building a great product and customer experience.”...

One of the primary goals of ProudCity is to remove traditional procurement barriers, such as the lack of pricing transparency and flexible purchasing options, and make it easier for cities to purchase government digital services. With most government software offerings, there is little upfront visibility into pricing, either because bidding is based on highly-specialized specifications...

This is primarily a security updates and bugfix 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? Color changes: We now use the Highlight Color for the search button on the homepage and all icon...

This is the initial release of the ProudCity WordPress platform. 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? This is the initial release of ProudCity, so everything is new! Notable features include: a search-focused website; webapp interface...

We're extremely excited to officially launch our first city, West Carrollton, Ohio. Using the ProudCity platform, West Carrollton launched its new website in 60 days. Visit the new westcarrollton.org and see West Carrollton's BETA launch featured in Government Technology. Learn how you can make your city proud.

Government Technology interviewed ProudCity CEO Luke Fretwell about getting started and what's next. Today ProudCity advertises itself as an out-of-the-box, enterprise-level website platform to localities — primarily small to medium-sized cities — that want the latest technology, but don’t want the pricing of a large Web design firm. Considering the potential impact for cities, Government Technology...

Government Technology featured ProudCity's first BETA city launch. Our favorite excerpt: NEXT TIPPING POINT OF WEB INNOVATION? Online service delivery is getting a lot less complex, and the remaining barriers to government innovation online are falling away. What previously required a significant volume of physical infrastructure has been replaced by virtual infrastructure. Perhaps we are...

When we started ProudCity, rather than conceptualize what we thought was best for municipalities, we wanted to build with a real city, so that we could address real issues and do so with the intent of scaling to thousands more. Immediately, we set out to find a pilot city to work with -- one that...

Government Computer News featured ProudCity in a new story, "Startup offers city websites as a service": Spinning up a website these days it trivially easy. It's the work that comes after launch that's the problem. That's especially true for city governments, according to longtime civic technologist Luke Fretwell. While larger cities may have in-house developers...

As part of a new feature -- GovTech 100 -- Government Technology and e.Republic Labs listed "the top 100 companies focused on government customers," and ProudCity was selected as one of "5 to Watch" in 2016: We also identified a handful of deserving, early-stage companies that merit mention as "5 to Watch" that are already...

In September 2010, I was sitting in the back of a school bus with a city manager of a small Texas town to take a tour of the then-famous Manor, where a city of 6,000 was revolutionizing how local government could leverage modern technology and deliver resident services more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before....