Need a last minute Valentine’s Day gift idea? We’ve put together some last minute anytime, anywhere government Valentine’s ideas for your special someone. Need a card? Send a Valentine’s greeting and a handy health tip (like the one pictured) with CDC’s Mobile Health e-card App! Want to dazzle,  but your bank account’s not cooperating? Introduce them to some to the [...]

With mobile use growing exponentially and federal agencies implementing customer-facing mobile services for the Digital Government Strategy, we decided to put together a Mobile Gov resource “cheat sheet” with concepts and information we think will be helpful for agencies implementing Mobile Gov in 2013. Here’s what Mobile Gov implementers need to know! APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) [...]

Believe it or not, there are government apps ready to assist citizens during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Here are some common Turkey Day scenarios with the apps that can help. Thanksgiving Travel– If you are traveling by plane, you can check MyTSA developed by the Transportation Security Administration to find airport wait times, items you [...]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), has created the 52 Weeks for Women’s Health application as a guide for women interested in learning more about their health anytime and anywhere. The app, available on the Android and IOS platforms, lists 52 alphabetical health topics, one for each week [...]

As part of the agency’s strategy to give users access to anytime, anywhere information, the Department of Health and Human Services recently released the Eldercare Locator Mobile website. The Eldercare Locator is a nationwide service the connects users to local agencies that serve older adults and their families. The website contains a searchable database that [...]

To give their users anytime, anywhere access to information, the  National Institute on Drug Abuse recently implemented a mobile website. The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s mobile Web site, m.drugabuse.gov, gives users quick and easy access to facts about illicit drugs, the science behind addiction, drug abuse research funding, and more. Mobile users benefit from easy-to-find [...]

Yesterday at the FOSE conference, the Mobile Program Management Office, hosted a Mobile Apps Experience where 9 federal and one local agency gave live demos of their mobile products Steve Jobs style. Here are the 10 participating apps: NSF 360 for iPad SaferBus IRS2Go The Congressional Record NOAA Release Mako Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission MYDS Answers.ed.gov DocsTeach App [...]

Mobile web versus mobile apps? Well, apps continue to be a strong category. But what are people doing on their apps? According to Nielsen’s State of the Media: Consumer Usage Report, it’s GAMES! Followed by social networking, music and navigation. The study also found that people like free apps. Fifty-one percent said that they don’t mind advertising if they [...]