2013 Sunny Awards: Winners Choose Granicus for Government Transparency

The release of the Sunshine Review’s fourth annual Sunny Awards has revealed a clear pattern: Granicus clients are consistently receiving top honors. 

Encouragingly, out of over 1,000 qualifying government sites from across the country, 247 were awarded an “A” grade. That’s a 15.4% increase over the number of “A” grades last year and a 502.4% increase since the first awards in 2010.

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Granicus Clients Dominate the 2012 Digital Cities Awards

The Center for Digital Government and Government Technology magazine have released their annual Digital Cities Survey, awarding the top city government technology leaders. Twenty-one Granicus clients were ranked on this prestigious list.

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Half of Digital State Survey Winners Use Granicus

The 2012 Digital State Survey was recently published, awarding eight states with A grades for their digital initiatives; half of these states use Granicus solutions. The Digital State Survey, a biennial review of state government technology practices, is conducted by the Center for Digital Government, and published through Government Technology magazine.

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70% of Best of the Web City and County Winners Use Granicus

The 2012 Best of the Web awards, created by Government Technology and the Center for Digital Government, revealed an astounding fact: 80% of the cities, and 60% of the counties awarded, including the first place city winner, have implemented online open government solutions from Granicus. Inc.

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16 Granicus Clients Win 2012 Digital Counties Awards

In this year’s Digital Counties Awards presented by GovTech and the Center for Digital Government, the emphasis was on counties that were able to save money through digital means. Methods such as making data available through mobile apps, creating shared services, utilizing employee owned devices, social media communications, cloud technologies, data consolidation, and virtualization, were thematic.

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How Ann Arbor Won the Digital Cities Award Sponsored by AT&T

Last month, a representative from AT&T presented a Digital Cities Survey award to the City Council and IT department of the City of Ann Arbor. I knew they won, but I didn’t know about AT&T coming in and presenting the award. I used the very technology that helped them win the award to look up the meeting details and watch a clip of the award presentation. Here are the highlights, with a few interesting insights from AT&T...

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Webinar Recap: Governments Achieve Measurable Success with Granicus

Yesterday, I led a live webinar for nearly 200 government agencies who were interested in learning more about the Granicus Platform & Product Suites to help them exceed their government transparency, legislative efficiency, and citizen collaboration goals. While discussing some of our newest features and sharing success stories achieved by our customers, it struck me what a fantastic year 2011 has been for governments who have partnered with us!

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