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CapitolCamp Developer Summit - Day 1

The second annual CapitolCamp is kicking off this morning in Albany with our Developer Summit.   Morning discussions are covering how to manage open-source software projects in State government, and about how the NYSenate OpenLegislation service was built.  Sessions will continue this afternoon addressing CRM for government, development of geospatial applications for government using Python, and more.

August 19, 2010
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New York State Senate Launches Nation's First iPad App For Legislation

Senate Majority Continues National Leadership in Using Technology to Foster Transparent, Efficient, Participatory Government

August 19, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 6/20/10 - 7/3/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 95740 visits, more than a 8,000 visit increase over last the last report. It had a bounce rate of 50% a large increase and higher than the long term average of 42%. The website had new visitors 58% of the time, less than in last report and less than the long term average of 66%. The continuation of this high level of attention is likely linked to the delayed budget.

July 30, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 6/6/10 - 6/19/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 87836 visits, a nearly 10,000 visit increase over last the last report. It had a bounce rate of 35% maintaining a large difference with the long term average. The website had new visitors 62% of the time, less than in last report and less than the long term average of 66%. The continuation of this high level of attention is likely linked to the delayed budget.

July 30, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 5/23/10 - 6/5/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 76777 visits, the highest amount since traffic to the website picked up in the last three reports. It had a bounce rate of 33%, returning to the 9 point difference with the long term average from two periods ago. The website had new visitors 60% of the time, less than in last report and less than the long term average of 66%. The continuation of this high level of attention is likely linked to the expected production of the budget.

July 30, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 5/9/10 - 5/22/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 72264 visits, only slightly less than in the last reporting period. It had a bounce rate of 43%, 9 points higher than in the last report and one point higher than the long term average of 42%. The website had new visitors 64% of the time, nearly as high as the long term average of 66%. The continuation of this high level of attention is likely linked to the expected production of the budget.

July 30, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 4/25/10 - 5/8/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 72527 visits, twice as much as the last reporting period. It had a bounce rate of 34%, 8 points lower than it’s long term average of 42%, and new visitors 64% of the time, nearly as high as the long term average of 66%. This is very likely linked to the expected production of the budget.

July 30, 2010
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New York State Senate Launches First Mobile Legislative App in Nation

The New York State Senate today announced full availability of its mobile application, "NYSenate Mobile," the first mobile application in the nation developed by a legislative body.  NYSenate Mobile brings New Yorkers closer to their elected officials, making comprehensive access to Senate information and content from all New York State Senators available any time, anywhere in the palm of your hand.  Citizens, staff, and journalists can use the app to search for bill information, contact their Senator, review event calendars, read Senator's blogs, watch archived video of Senate Se

June 15, 2010
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Android App Beta and Mobile Source Code Released

Today we are releasing the beta version of the New York State Senate mobile app. This is the first mobile app released by a State Legislature. This app brings the functionality of the NYSenate.gov site and the Open Legislation service to users on the go, no matter where they are. From finding your Senator using your current GPS location, to searching legislation or session transcripts, to watching Senate session video from just hours ago, citizens of New York State are now just a tap away from their legislature. 

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June 4, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 4/11/10 - 4/24/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 31897 visits, reversing it's downward trend in traffic from the end of February. It had a bounce rate of 38%, 4 points lower than it’s long term average of 42%, and new visitors 60% of the time, lower than the long term average of 66%.

June 1, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 3/28/10 - 4/10/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 28510 visits, continuing it's decline in traffic from the end of February. It had a bounce rate of 36%, 6 points lower than it’s long term average of 42%, and new visitors 64% of the time, lower than the long term average of 67%. It's likely that, for whatever reason, interest has dropped in Senate content resulting in fewer new users and, therefore, lower overall numbers but higher likelihood of in-depth engagement.

June 1, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 3/14/10 - 3/27/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 36221 visits. It had a bounce rate of 49%, higher than it’s long term average of 43%, and new visitors 63% of the time, higher than the long term average of 67%, and five points lower than the last report.

June 1, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 2/28/10 - 3/13/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 33957 visits. It had a bounce rate of 52%, higher than it’s long term average of 43%, and new visitors 68% of the time, higher than the long term average of 67%, and two points lower than the last report.

June 1, 2010
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NYSenate.gov codebase contributed to Drupal

Last week the New York State Senate released version 1.0 of the computer code that runs our website as a collection of contributed modules for the Drupal content management system. The collection is available as a free download at http://drupal.org/project/nyss:

The code we released consists of 24 Drupal modules which constitute almost all of the custom code that is currently running on the Senate's website at http://www.nysenate.gov. The code is available as-is for use and adaptation by anyone who wishes to build a public-facing website for government or other agencies.

April 20, 2010
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Open Legislation v1.5: Dusty Daedalus

It has been almost one year since we originally launched the Open Legislation service here at the NY Senate CIO Team. Since then, we've updated the service a number of times, all of them culminating in this fifth major release, "Dusty Daedalus" v1.5. All of our releases are named with astronomical themes, since we are always trying to shoot for the stars.

March 31, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 2/13/10 - 2/27/10


This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 54805 visits, up by nearly 1,00 since the last report and 2,200 over the last month. It had a bounce rate of 53%, higher than it’s long term average of 42%, and new visitors 70% of the time, higher than the long term average of 67%, and one point higher than the last report.

March 12, 2010
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Upcoming Talks About Technology for Transparency in The New York State Senate

This Spring, we will be speaking about new developments in ongoing work to make the Senate as an institution more transparent, efficient, and participatory, to audiences ranging from New York City high school students to

March 8, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 2/7/10 - 2/13/10


This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 44647 visits, up by nearly 1,100 since the last report. It had a bounce rate of 50%, higher than it’s long term average of 42%, but lower than the last report, and new visitors 69% of the time, higher than the long term average of 66%, but also lower than the last report.

March 1, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 1/16/10 - 1/30/10

1/30/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 33787 visits. It had a bounce rate of 53%, higher than it’s long term average of 41%, and new visitors 72% of the time, higher than the long term average of 66%. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page shows that the average level of website activity has risen since the commencement of session in January.

February 17, 2010
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Web Analytics Report 1/10/10 - 1/16/10

1/16/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. This week the website received a total of 29469 visits. It had a bounce rate of 48%, higher than it’s long term average of 41%, and new visitors 70% of the time, higher than the long term average of 66%. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page shows that the website has returned to its pre-Marraige Equality performance.

February 1, 2010
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