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The City of Austin Begins the Redesign That Buzzed the Net in 2009
It was almost exactly a year ago when the news was tweeted and retweeted about the City of Austin farming the website redo project out to a California web dev shop. Using two hashtags #coawebsite and ___ the tweeters of Austin hammered the officials on the net and demanded an explanation for the seemingly illogical [...]
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Helping Haiti with Awareness and Action! (updated 1-19-10) The Red Badge of Courage
In the spirit of supporting those across the globe in Haiti, recovering from the disastrous earthquake, I have put a red “haiti” ribbon on my Twitter pic. I will be adding it to my Facebook and other profiles shortly.
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COA – The New RFP to Release This Summer – That’s The Latest News
Whatever Matt Esquibel is working on, I hope it’s good and I hope it meets the expectations of the large community of developers, designers, project managers, businesses, and visionaries who are waiting to put their bids into the ring. Let’s hope they get a better than 3 : 400 ratio of returns on this one.
Mostly, I’d really like Matt, Doug Matthews and Gail Roper to ramp up the AustinGO site they already have. Post updates on the blog! Fix the RSS feed! Use the tool! As it stands what’s happening is still happening behind closed doors with a new team and the community is forced to wait for the release of the new RFP.
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COA Website Public Forum Set for Wednesday June 17, 6:00 – 7:30 (details inside)
City of Austin Website Public Forum, Wednesday June 17, 2009 at the Carver Museum http://tiny.cc/ilqxU from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. to discuss the AustinGO project moving forward. We hope to provide insight into the direction of the project and listen to the the thoughts and ideas of the community in attendance. We plan to have more public forums in the coming months and will provide more information as dates, times and formats are determined.
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