Congratulations Digital Counties Award Winners!
Congratulations to our clients who won the 2006 Digital Counties Survey award:
| Marin County, CA | Snohomish County, WA |
| King County, WA | Stearns County, MN |
| Olmsted County, MN | Yuma County,AZ |
| Sacramento County, CA |
Each year the Center for Digital Government recognizes the most technologically savvy county websites across the nation. Every county in the nation was invited to participate in the survey to recognize their hard work and innovation. Once the judging was complete and the dust had settled, the winners were left standing. Of the 47 winning counties, seven of them are using GovDelivery to improve community outreach and increase website usage. Congrats!
GOVDELIVERY SUCCESS STORY |
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Where do Sonoma County, CA, residents go to find out about the latest Economic Development Board Reports? How do they find out about Ocean Water Quality Monitoring? For thousands of Sonoma County residents, the answer is their inboxes.
Since Sonoma County launched GovDelivery just over a year ago, interested residents have received more than 300,000 e-mail updates on a wide variety of topics including: Parks Special Events, Public Health News and Alerts, Veterans Halls Public Events, and Airport Land Use Commission Meeting Information. Subscribers are immediately notified as soon as any of these topics are updated on the Sonoma County website.
Since launching GovDelivery in June 2005, Sonoma County has:
• Sent more than 300,000 e-mails.
• Signed up 6,500+ subscribers.
• Successfully implemented GovDelivery on more than 90 topics.
QUARTERLY TIP
Know Your Update Options: E-mail, Wireless Alerts, & RSS
As people get busier and are constantly bombarded with information, it becomes more important to communicate with citizens on their terms. GovDelivery enables government to communicate proactively with the public the right way. Subscribers can choose not only which updates they receive, but also how they receive them. GovDelivery offers users three different methods to receive updates: e-mail, wireless alerts and RSS.
E-mail is a part of day-to-day life for most Americans and is the number one use of the Internet. In fact, 134 million American adults use e-mail, with 64 million checking it on a daily basis. For that reason, e-mail is the primary update format supported by GovDelivery. Citizens who sign up to receive e-mail updates from you welcome your e-mails because they contain highly-specific updates that they have chosen to receive.
Wireless alerts are an effective way to reach people quickly about urgent and time sensitive matters. With 10.5 million adults sending or receiving text messages on a cell phone each day, wireless alerts are quickly becoming a popular update format and a great way to reach people on-the-go. (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
RSS allows citizens to view updates from you in their RSS readers. A small, but growing percentage of the population is embracing this emerging technology. GovDelivery allows you to easily add RSS feeds to your website to take advantage of this new format.
For more information on update options, download the “GovDelivery Update Options” feature sheet or e-mail us at info@govdelivery.com.
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