digital.cityofchicago.org was meant to be a front doorstep to digital services for Chicagoans of all kinds.
Last year it served 33k visitors, 25k of whom visited the Mayor's livestream page. 5k came for three data blog posts about taxis, lobbying and city salaries. 5k visited the home page.
Given that traffic, and the fact that the Wordpress version of digital.cityofchicago.org is eventually going away, I thought it best to roll all our digital and DoIT-technology related information into one marketing site.
That would mean the old digital is removed, eventually, and that work will be treated separately.
For this item, there are a few mega stories:
[x] create a jekyll site in the digital.chicago.gov repository
[ ] write homepage content featuring twitter, youtube and other doit social accounts
[ ] write some blog content explaining the change
[ ] figure out a strategy to re-map as many digital.cityofchicago.org links as possible to their new addresses.
[ ] mirror Chicago Digital Services medium content here
[ ] port all dev. content here, again, figuring out a way to keep remapped content intact.
[ ] include open roadmap information, and calls for participation
[ ] include links to civic tech testing opportunities
[ ] include blurb encouraging vendors to sign up to submit RFPs, etc.
[ ] get digital.chicago.gov mapped and digital.coc.org pointed to the new site.
digital.cityofchicago.org was meant to be a front doorstep to digital services for Chicagoans of all kinds.
Last year it served 33k visitors, 25k of whom visited the Mayor's livestream page. 5k came for three data blog posts about taxis, lobbying and city salaries. 5k visited the home page.
Given that traffic, and the fact that the Wordpress version of digital.cityofchicago.org is eventually going away, I thought it best to roll all our digital and DoIT-technology related information into one marketing site.
That would mean the old digital is removed, eventually, and that work will be treated separately.
For this item, there are a few mega stories: