NYC Digital

Designers and Developers, are you looking for something to do on National Day of Civic Hacking? 

On June 1st, there will be a Rockaway Beach Civic Hack Day at Scholars Academy in Rockaway Park. The hackathon will be themed around building tools and apps for emergency preparedness and response.  This includes developing tools for the community and government to collaborate on rebuilding after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.  The event is run by Rockaway Help in sponsorship with Mozilla and The New York Community Trust.  

For more info or to sign up visit http://bit.ly/14sk532

Following the success of Engage NYC 2011, NYC Digital hosted the second annual Engage NYC: Digital Media in Government summit on October 19, 2012 at Google’s Headquarters in New York. Nearly 200 social media, communications and press staff from across city government attended the event, featuring presentations from external social media partners, a panel on digital communications, an update on the State of the Digital City, as well as an awards ceremony recognizing agencies’ outstanding work in digital media.



The morning began with welcome remarks from William Floyd of Google and the City’s Chief Digital Officer, Rachel Haot. A surprise guest keynote David Karp, founder and CEO of New York social media startup, Tumblr, gave an inspiring talk on New York City’s digital presence and the vital role digital media has in our culture today.

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Today, the White House recognized Michael Flowers, Director of Analytics at NYC’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning as one of the 13 Local Innovation Champions of Change for his work and use of data-driven analytics to identify the best ways City government can address multi-faceted problems. 

The City’s Policy and Strategic Planning Analytics team analyzes data from City agencies to help quickly and efficiently allocate government resources to address crime, safety and other challenges.  

“Since day one, we’ve empowered everyone in our Administration to try new and bold approaches to tackling old problems and base solutions on hard data, not ideology or partisan philosophy,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “Michael Flowers and his team have exemplified our approach and taken it to new levels of success… I want to congratulate Michael and his entire team.” - Mayor Bloomberg

Read more at http://on.nyc.gov/SjIkI6

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Today, Mayor Bloomberg announced that small businesses looking to grow and attract new customers through digital tools can get help from the City’s NYC Business Solutions Centers through a new three-part curricula designed by Google, Mashable, Tumblr and Weebly.

The Small Business Digital Toolkit curriculum, launched by NYC Digital and the Department of Small Business Services, will review the fundamentals for creating and managing an online presence, digital and mobile payments, e-commerce, search engine optimization as well as digital advertising and social media.

Parts of the curriculum will be available online in the Business Library section of the NYC Business Solutions website and in classroom settings throughout the City’s NYC Business Solutions Centers. 

Register for the first Social Media Fundamentals course starting September 20th at 2PM at the NYC Business Solutions, Queens Center, 168-25 Jamaica Avenue, 2nd floor. Visit nyc.gov/nycbusiness for more information. Register today! 

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