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Digital government news from ProudCity (April 2022)

Digital government news Is it time for a new local government website? ELGL shares our suggestions for performing a diagnostics test on your website to see if it’s time for a change. Multi-factor authentication primer ProudCity has a new MFA primer on how to better secure your online accounts. Routing & switching is not ‘sexy’ … Continued

ProudCity 1.116.0 Release

This release contains a number of accessibility improvements and third party plugin updates. The WordPress core 5.8.1 security and maintenance update is included in this release. It is immediately available to all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? See … Continued

ProudCity 360 results (Q3 2021)

ProudCity 360 is our new customer feedback program to help us continuously improve and provide the best service possible. Our first report reflects the responses we received from the ProudCity community based on our Q3 2021 feedback survey. The survey was sent to all users who have ProudCity accounts. For those who responded, thank you … Continued

Kitchen sink digital public service: Why it’s important for local governments to diversify technology vendors

A challenge we often see with how some local governments manage digital services is that they rely on one company to do everything. An example of one company doing most or all of this includes: Websites (and content management systems) Meetings (particularly meetings management) Customer relationship management (311) Newsletters Permitting Chat bot Accessibility add-ons Custom … Continued

Security: Open source, WordPress, ProudCity

ProudCity is proudly powered by open source technology. We embrace open source because it empowers us to be more innovative and build great products for local governments. And, as the U.S. Department of Defense says about open source, “there are great benefits to be gained in reliability, performance, and security.” Open source and security There … Continued

ProudCity 1.110.0 Release

This release contains third party plugin updates. There is no WordPress core update included in this release. It is immediately available to 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 no noticeable updates in this release. What’s … Continued

ProudCity 1.109.0 Release

This release only contains third party plugin updates. The WordPress 5.7.2 security release is included in this update. It is immediately available to all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? If you are using the calendar widget on your … Continued

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