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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.

This is primarily a contributed plugin update release. There is no WordPress core update in this release and few 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.

This is primarily a bugfix release. Also in the release is an upgrade to GravityForms 2.0.x. On June 22, we applied a hotfix for the WordPress core 4.3.3 security update, which is also included in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero...

This is a WordPress Core security update (for WordPress Version 4.5.3). There are no other updates in this release. Learn more about the WordPress 4.5.3 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...

Last week, as part of ELGL's Technology Efficiency series, we led a webinar on the project management platform Trello. For the training, we created a "New city website launch" board template to show how cities can use Trello in the context of launching a new website. The board includes lists, cards and checklists related to...

Route Fifty featured Hinsdale, Mass., and its adoption of ProudCity as its web platform, especially our online payments integration features: “To have the ease of making these payments digitally and being able have a digital paper trail is the standard that people are used to,” Kevin Herman, co-founder and COO of Proud City, said in...

Anytime you store sensitive data, security must be the utmost concern, and here at ProudCity, we are serious about security. This is especially true in today's climate, where a security breach at the Federal Office of Personnel Management compromised sensitive information from over 21 million employees (and their families) that had undergone federal background checks, and there have...

This is a bugfix-only release. There was no WordPress core update in this release and only a small number of third party 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? There should be...