Some guy. Product, @usdatagov. RPCV. Formerly ran https://xitter.cf/t.co/Zrfe0tgqvQ. Views mine & I don't speak for my employer. Come curl at @buffalocurling!
Buffalo, NY
Joined September 2009
- Tweets5.8K
- Following3.5K
- Followers1.3K
- Likes5.3K
Pinned Tweet
"You spend the first five years trying to get in all the meetings. You spend the next five years trying to get out of all the meetings"
Tim Lowden retweeted
New on Data.gov: Organization specific dataset page analytics reports! See top dataset pages, file downloads, and external link clicks by agency. More at our @Digital_Gov blog post digital.gov/2024/09/13/datag…
Just adding to the grumpy chorus of folks tagging @VerizonSupport @verizon about the international connectivity outage. No communication from them, and the front line support wasn’t aware when I called. Poor form.
Tim Lowden retweeted
The notify.gov pilot aims to meet users where they are by allowing agencies to send customized text notifications to the public. If you are interested in using Notify in the future email us at [email protected] federalnewsnetwork.com/it-mo…
Tim Lowden retweeted
@USGSA is thrilled to announce @GSA_TTS' first group of partners to use Notify.gov: @NorfolkVA, @MontgomeryCoMD, & the states of #WI & #WA. The partners will use the text messaging service to help communicate benefit(s) info to the public.
➡️ gsa.gov/blog/2023/12/14/gsa-…
ALT Black background with white and light blue letters that read, "Notify.gov, reach people where they are with government-powered text messages. At the bottom a telephone outlined in black with a blue screen that reads, "New text message." with black letters in a white box.
Tim Lowden retweeted
The spread of Notify, an open source messaging service, is a great example of a civic technology for public good that is it itself a public good. public.digital/2023/03/21/th… Great work on the @Digital_Gov team on a pilot that could be scaled across the United States — and beyond.
Tim Lowden retweeted
Today in @NextGov: “The Biden administration is building a new, central text messaging service ... as a means of getting timely information to low-income families with newborn babies.”
We're making government work for the American people.
nextgov.com/cxo-briefing/202…
9 mo. later as an SMS product manager vs. web analytics guy: I remain against shorteners, but I’m more intimately aware of the tension between 160 character SMS limits and full URLs with campaign parameters. How can we promote trust, measure impact, AND use short URLs in texts?
Give me reasons why your org still uses link shorteners. Bc I don't get it.
1. t.co solves the character limit AND trust in destination issues
2. For print/billboard, Linktree-like model is better
3. Shortener analytics always inflated. Use Campaign URLs
Iteration: agency.gov/textlinks and ONLY include it in your SMS campaigns. Assumedly, all traffic only comes from the SMS campaigns and all conversions that start with that entrance are attributed to said campaign. Seems feasible?
Our grandparents were the pre-television generation, our parents the pre-internet generation, and we are the pre-GPT generation.
Automation of the automators.
Last night I used GPT-4 to write code for 5 micro services for a new product.
A (very good) dev quoted £5k and 2 weeks.
GPT-4 delivered the same in 3 hours, for $0.11
Genuinely mind boggling
While everyone’s talking about SMS today, feel free to check out the work we’re doing to help government reach you more easily via text: digital.gov/2023/02/07/colla…