Office of the CIO
Web Analytics Report 1/10/10 - 1/16/10
1/16/10
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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.
Web Analytics Report 12/20/09 - 1/02/10
This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. This week the website received a total of 16970 visits. It had a bounce rate of 50%, higher than its long term average of 40%, and new visitors 78% 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.
Web Analytics Report 12/06/09 - 12/19/09
This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. This week the website received a total of 29509 visits. It had a bounce rate of 47%, higher than its long term average of 40%, and new visitors 74% of the time, higher than the long term average of 65%. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page continues to show that the Marriage Equality debate garnered unprecedented attention for nysenate.gov and demonstrates the potential for online public engagement.
Web Analytics Report 11/22/09 - 12/05/09
This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. This week the website received a total of 103,032 visits. It had a bounce rate of 43%, slightly higher than its long term average of 39%, and new visitors 74% of the time, higher than the long term average of 65%. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page show that the huge increase in the number of visitors was due to the Marriage Equality debate which garnered unprecedented attention for nysenate.gov and demonstrates the potential for online public engagement.
Web Analytics Report 11/08/09 - 11/21/09
This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. This week the website received a total of 41,819 visits, down from last period’s 55,568. It had a bounce rate of 46%, higher than its long term average of 38%, and new visitors 72% of the time, higher than the long term average of 63%. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page shows that, after a lull through August, September and the beginning of October, visits are increasing on average.
Web Analytics Report 10/25/09 - 11/07/09
This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. This week the website received a total of 55,568 visits. It had a bounce rate of 52%, higher than its long term average of 38%, and new visitors 78% of the time, higher than the long term average of 63%. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page shows that, after a lull through August, September and the beginning of October, visits are increasing on average.
Web Analytics Report 10/11/09 - 10/24/09
This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. This week the website received a total of 35,758 visits. It had a bounce rate of 46%, higher than its long term average of 38%, and new visitors 75% of the time, higher than the long term average of 63%. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page shows that, after a lull through August, September and the beginning of October, visits are trending upwards.
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New Senate Website Expands Information Available to Public
State Senator David J. Valesky (D-Oneida) today announced a substantial expansion of publicly available Senate legislative records on the chamber’s website at Open.NYSenate.Gov, continuing the Senate’s commitment to making government more transparent, responsive and accountable.
Senator Jose M. Serrano And NYS Senate Launch Revolutionary Open Legislation Website At Harlem High School
Today, Senator Jose M. Serrano launched the Senate’s new Open Legislation website through an interactive presentation to students at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics. The students participated in the first demonstration of the new, user friendly search engine which allows individuals to easily search, navigate, share and comment on all Senate legislation.
Open Source Software in the NYSenate
Slides from a presenation given recently at GTC East
Web Analytics Report 8/30/09 - 9/5/09
NYSenate.gov and Internet Analytics Office of the CIO
for 8/30/09 - 9/5/09
The information below shows the status of the New York Senateʼs web presence as well as an overview of how, in general, of how the Senate is engaging across Social Media.
The website has been experiencing a healthy amount of traffic even though the average level of visits has declined since session finished. The most obvious trend is the peaking of visits during the week and the lulls that occur over the weekend. In Social Media, many Senators have been growing their networks on Twitter and Facebook and have found attention through the most popular, most emailed and most linked sections of nysenate.gov. The online video has also been popular. The live streaming channel has accrued over 1 million viewer minutes watched and both YouTube channels have garnered thousands of views.
Through Crowdsourcing the Senate has engaged constituents and garnered several ideas and thousands of votes.
Internally, the CIOʼs office has been keeping on pace with itʼs development cycle. Nearly 60% of all new features currently requested have been implemented and 70% of all bugs reported have already been fixed. Over 80% of all requests for support have been addressed.
Please direct all feedback to ciodesk@senate.state.ny.us
Dialing in to the NYSenate OpenLeg API
Open Government Advocate Mark Headd has written an excellent post on the Government as a Platform meme, and uses our work on Open APIs at the NY Senate Office of the CIO as a case study. (an API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of rules and protocols that allow one computer program to talk to another, generally across the Internet)
When governments make data available through an API, they are telling developers: “Use any platform or programming language you want to access our data.” The basic requirements for invoking an API like the NY Senate’s (or the District of Columbia’s 311 API) is the ability to communicate via HTTP and to parse XML, or JSON. Since pretty much every modern programming language and development platform can do these things, it creates opportunities for developers of all stripes.
Mark isn't just another guy with an opinion. He's actually built some great apps on top of our OpenLeg API and the IMified service that offers a variety of innovative ways to query bill information, the coolest of which is a voice-based phone interface. Now, you don't even need a computer to access our API!
Just dial a number, punch in the bill, and you'll hear a pretty good digital voice read back the latest information about the legislation you are interested in. Try it yourself - provide a New York Senate or Assembly bill number ("S1234") to any of the services below, and you'll get back the latest info on sponsor and bill actions:
- Instant Messaging Client (Jabber): opensenate@bot.im
- Twitter Client: Send a tweet formatted as a @reply to @opensenate
- Short Message Service (SMS): Send a text message to (315) 308-1943
- Regular Telephone: Call (646) 736-2439
These services fit very well with the Office of the CIO's vision for a fully mobile-accessible legislative body, where everyone from elected officials to their consituents can fluidly connect with eachother around issues that matter to them no matter where they are. Access of information via mobile phones also signficantly leverages the playing field when it comes to cost... a $99 iPhone is a pretty fantastic computing device.
Read Mark's full post here: http://www.voiceingov.org/blog/?p=1136&cpage=1
Gov 2.0 at SXSW
Today's the last day to vote on SXSW panels and the CIO team has put together two panels on Local Gov 2.0 that need your vote. Can you help?
Adventures in Local Open Government - New York Times, NY State Senate, DC.gov, nicusa.com, The Open Planning Project
There's been a lot of attention to Open Government, especially at the Federal level. This panel provides some practical examples of effective initiatives from people inside and outside state and municipal government. Includes discussion of specific formats and technologies as well as advice on how to "sell" open government concepts to decision makers.
In Code We Trust: Open Government Awesomeness - New York State Senate, City and County of San Francisco, DC City Council
"In Code We Trust" is the new motto for Government in the 21st century. Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments. Built upon open-source tools, open standards, and best practices, this panel will highlight practical examples of initiatives from private, public and government sectors.
OpenLeg now supports RSS, Email Alerts and PubSubHubbub
You might have noticed that the NY Senate OpenLeg system has a new view for browsing recent activity in the Senate and Assembly.
Of course we are all very busy people and probably don't have the time every day to go check the site over and over again. What if instead you want these updates pushed out to you? Well, that's what Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is for!
You can directly access and subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest bill actions through this link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/nysenateopenleg
(you can also access through our direct RSS link here:
http://open.nysenate.gov/openleg/feed )
By routing our feed through Google Feedburner, we can automatically enable two additional services.
First, if you prefer email to RSS, you can receive daily alerts of all bill activity in the last 24 hours. Click here to subscribe.
Second, Feedburner gives us support for Pingshot, which is Google's implementation of the open-source protocol PubSubHubbub, something that sounds a bit wacky, but is becoming quite useful and interesting. Basically, it helps delivers alerts out to you more efficiently and quickly - always a good thing! Learn more about all the hubbub here.
Why a CIO Office Blog?
1) Internal Communications: We want to achieve a tight feedback loop between Senators and their staff and our Office, and think that our blog, with commenting, will provide another useful channel for that feedback loop.
2) External Communications: We get a lot of questions and suggestions coming in from the outside world every day (e.g.: from technology departments in other Legislatures, from press, from technology companies, from interested citizens, etc.), and while we love talking to people directly, it can take a lot of time, and we need to stay focused on our work; we hope the blog will provide a more efficient way for some of the interested parties to keep tabs on what we're doing.
3) Prototyping Senate Departmental Web Pages: We've had several requests from Departments within the Senate to have their own web page, so we thought we'd test it out on ourselves first to work out the kinks.
In the weeks ahead we'll be redoubling our efforts to post in detail our products, plans, and lessons learned, as we continue to work towards our goal of using technology to help the New York State Senate become the most transparent, efficient, and participatory legislative body in the country.
@yben & @nykb in the new @nysenatecio office!
@yben & @nykb in the new @nysenatecio office!
We’re starting to think about the possibilities of Google...
We’re starting to think about the possibilities of Google Wave for legislative markup, constiuent feedback, discussion, crowd-sourcing and more… the concept might take a few years to reach critical mass, but things are definitely headed in the right direction!
"Not only does BART provide the data readily to the public, it encourages competition among..."
“Not only does BART provide the data readily to the public, it encourages competition among third-party software developers to improve the applications they develop by listing all the applications that have been devoloped on bart.gov/apps.
"This was a landmark coming together of those too long shut out of the political process and those..."
““This was a landmark coming together of those too long shut out of the political process and those eager to make change from within. In leveraging Web 2.0 technologies, we can strengthen the relationship between government and the people. At Capitol Camp, the groundwork was laid for a more transparent, accountable and collaborative New York.””
this video is making the team sing “somewhere, out...
this video is making the team sing “somewhere, out there”
