ProudCity recognized by ELGL local government community in 2019 Haverford Award
Public Spend Forum featured ProudCity as one of seven government technology startups to watch In 2019.
Category: News
ProudCity on e.Republic’s ICYMI
ProudCity CEO Luke Fretwell recently joined e.Republic Chief Innovation Officer Dustin Haisler and Vice President of Research Joe Morris on their videocast ICYMI (In Case You Missed It).
Proudly serving Jackson
We’re excited to announce our first state capital partner, Jackson, Miss. The new site, located at jacksonms.gov, is now live after going through the ProudCity Onboarding process and public feedback and user testing. As with all of our partners we serve, Jackson’s new, service-focused website is mobile-friendly, secured for user privacy protection and makes accessibility … Continued
How a New York village teamed with a fresh-out-of-college graduate to launch its new website in 90 days
After 15 years with the same village website, Rye Brook, New York, didn’t want to waste time or money on a digital upgrade. As Rye Brook Communication Services Coordinator Fred Siefert puts it, there are three options for local government web services. First is an in-house digital and technical team, which isn’t feasible for most … Continued
New ProudCity theme enhancements make it easier, faster to launch city government websites
Based on our work with cities, we’ve updated our default website theme to make it easier, faster and cheaper for municipalities to launch city government websites. Theme enhancements include: Cleaner user experience Refined information architecture Navigation, page template clean-up Additional page templates New default settings This enhanced theme, coupled with our ProudCity Web and ProudCity … Continued
Always getting better: How we work at ProudCity
Last week, we presented to the City of San Rafael’s new digital team on applying an open, asynchronous, collaborative mindset to getting things done. “Always getting better” is a ProudCity mantra, a reminder to ourselves that if we’re going to genuinely serve our government partners and their communities, we must continuously release a better product. … Continued
Government Technology: ‘Disasters Highlight the Growing Need for Digital Readiness’
Government Technology published a guest article, “Disasters Highlight the Growing Need for Digital Readiness,” by ProudCity CEO Luke Fretwell and San Rafael Senior Management Analyst Talia Smith.
TechWire: ‘Partnering, Planning, Tech Among Ways Government Can Survive Major Disaster’
Public Spend Forum featured ProudCity as one of seven government technology startups to watch In 2019.
Font customization on ProudCity-powered government websites
You can now customize fonts on your ProudCity-powered government website. Accessibility We’ve accounted for accessibility in choosing the fonts available for use, which is why there is a limited selection. We’ve also modified font weights in some areas to make previously ‘thin’ fonts more legible. Public Sans As part of the newly-updated United States Web … Continued
ProudCity 1.75.0 Release
This is primarily a bugfix release. There is no WordPress Core update in this release. It is immediately available for all ProudCity Hosted sites and for download on Github under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license. What changes will I notice? Color updates to the ProudCity theme: With the addition of the new … Continued