How We Changed the White House Blog

[Commentary] There’s been real progress in the Obama Administration towards a more transparent, attentive, and responsive government for the American people -- and we think the White House brand and web platforms should be emblematic of that progress. The only way to accomplish that is to be nimble and continue improving up until the end. On August 14, we released a brand-new version of the White House blog that’s reflective of those efforts. For some time now, we’ve served you the President’s schedule and the Vice President’s schedule on WhiteHouse.gov a daily basis, but we realized we weren’t actually making it truly useful.

So what did we change? We integrated the daily schedule into a streamlined daily feed, housed alongside the rest of the day’s relevant content. Now, when you visit the schedule, you’ll get additional context for the day’s events -- timely content that will make your visit fruitful. Have you had to pinch and zoom to read our content on your mobile devices? As of today, that’s a thing of the past on the White House blog. Now you can easily view all the content of a given post across your devices -- and it’s faster and more accessible. We’re not done yet. These are just a few things we’ve done recently, but there’s certainly more room to improve, and we’re enlisting your help to do it.