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Elections and Politics - United States
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- Twitter and Social Networking in the 2010 Midterm Elections
- by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, Pew Internet and American Life Project, January 27, 2011. "Some 21% of online adults used social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace in the months leading up to the November 2010 elections to connect with a campaign or the election itself, and 2% of online adults did so using Twitter. That works out to a total of 22% of adult internet users who engaged with the political campaign on Twitter or social networking sites in at least one of the following ways..."
Added: 10 February 2011;
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- The midterm election's effect on open gov
- GovLoop members discuss what the latest campaign cycle might mean for transparency efforts, By Andy Krzmarzick. Federal Computer Week, November 3, 2010. ""Will the midterm election close down open government?" That was the question my GovLoop colleague Stephen Peteritas asked a couple of weeks ago..."
Added: 4 November 2010;
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- Just in Time for the November Elections, Apps42 Releases CongressVotes App, a Mobile Directory of Members of Congress, Legislation, and Voting Records
- Bringing Capitol Hill to Your iPhone and iPod touch. Washington, October 29, 2010. "Apps42, Ltd. announced the release of CongressVotes, the first app in its Government Transparency Series. CongressVotes is designed as the go-to resource for involved citizens as well as legislators, legislative staff, and lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Updated four times a day, this feature-rich app combines a directory of lawmakers, all legislation, and voting records with title keyword searches for the 111th U.S. Congress. An automatic upgrade to CongressVotes 112th edition in January will keep users current throughout the election and the next term..."
Added: 1 November 2010;
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- Eight lessons for social media and politics from Politico, Facebook and media
- by Alex Howard. GovFresh, October 26, 2010. "... One of the great unanswered questions of this election with respect to social media will be whether fan or follower numbers have any predictive value with respect to elections. Another will be whether more interactive candidates are more successful. What remains is to decide which strategies and tactics will make the difference in winning elections..."
Added: 28 October 2010;
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- Campaigns not buying social media
- By Meredith Shiner. Politico, 25 October 2010. "Despite the increased attention paid by the media to political Facebook and Twitter accounts, campaigns today still spend less than 5 percent of their media expenditures online, according to an expert in the field..."
Added: 26 October 2010;
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- Is Secure Web-Based Voting a Decade Away?
- By Matt Williams. Government Technology, October 11, 2010. "It could take the U.S. at least another decade to perfect systems that would allow voters to securely cast their ballots on the Internet, a Washington, D.C., official has concluded after disturbing vulnerabilities were revealed in an Internet voting test bed launched last month by the district..."
Added: 12 October 2010;
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- Microsoft Cloud Helps Deliver Virtual Ballots to Voters Overseas
- By Russell Nichols. Government Technology, October 4, 2010. "... With November elections on the horizon, Democracy Live, a leading election technology firm, has joined forces with Microsoft to enhance online absentee ballot tools and make it easier for U.S. citizens abroad to vote during federal, state and local elections..."
Added: 7 October 2010;
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- Twitter: Making Early Voting Easier in DC
- By Anna. DC Centric, August 30, 2010. "This is useful and innovative; on the first day of Early Voting, the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics used Twitter to let potential voters know exactly how long the wait-times were, throughout the day..."
Added: 8 September 2010;
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- WeGov.com pushes Internet activism in new direction
- By Erin McPike, CongressDaily. NextGov, 22 July 2010. WeGov.com allows groups to host pages on the site just like Facebook, but it goes a step further by enabling users to donate to campaigns, engage in letter-writing efforts and join petitions.
Added: 29 July 2010;
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- Congress and Citizen Engagement
- By John Kamensky. IBM Center for the Business of Government Blog, April 22, 2010. "... the Congressional Management Foundation - a non-profit, non-partisan support group that helps individual members of Congress improve the management of their official offices - launched a new initiative to help Congress 'listen to citizens and govern with their voices in mind'. ..."
Added: 29 April 2010;
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- The 111th Congress Gold Mouse Awards - April 21st 2010
- By Tim Hysom on April 26, 2010 - The Gold Mouse Project. "Last Wednesday, we brought together Members and staff for the 111th Congress Gold Mouse Awards to celebrate online innovation on Capitol Hill. For the first time, we gave Platinum Mouse Awards to the #1 website in each category: House Members, Senate Members, committees, and leadership offices..."
Added: 27 April 2010;
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- Study finds a widening gap between best, worst congressional Web sites
- Foundation's Mouse Awards honor the best on the Hill but find a digital divide, By Kevin McCaney. Federal Computer Week, April 23, 2010. "Agency information technology leaders are quite familiar with the idea of using the Web to connect with constituents. How well do their brethren in the legislative branch, which has been known to pay attention to constituents, fare in this regard?..."
Added: 27 April 2010;
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- Social Networking and Constituent Communications - in pdf format (205kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Member Use of Twitter During a Two-Month Period in the 111th Congress, by Matthew Eric Glassman, Jacob R. Straus, Colleen J. Shogan. Congressional Research Service, February 3, 2010. "... This report examines Member use of one specific new electronic communication medium: Twitter. After providing an overview and background of Twitter, the report analyzes patterns of Member use of Twitter during August and September 2009. This report is inherently a snapshot in time of a dynamic process. As with any new technology, the number of Members using Twitter and the patterns of use may change rapidly in short periods of time. Thus, the conclusions drawn from this data can not be easily generalized nor can these results be used to predict future behavior..."
Added: 25 February 2010;
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- One-Third of Congress Now on Twitter
- Posted by Spencer Magloff. CBS News - Political Hotsheet Blog, February 23, 2010. "Congressional tweeting is on the rise. More and more lawmakers are delving into the social networking scene, relying on sites like Twitter to communicate everything from the melodramatic to the most mundane..."
Added: 25 February 2010;
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- The Social Pulpit: Barack Obama's Social Media Toolkit - in pdf format (318kb)
- Principal Author: Monte Lutz, SVP-Digital Public Affairs, Edelman, 2009. "Barack Obama won the presidency in a landslide victory (by a margin of nearly 200 electoral votes and 8.5 million popular votes) by converting everyday people into engaged and empowered volunteers, donors and advocates through social networks, e-mail advocacy, text messaging and online video. The campaign's proclivity to online advocacy is a major reason for his victory. Since the election, the social media programs adopted by Obama's transition team have foreshadowed significant changes in how Obama, as president, will communicate with – and more importantly – through the mass of supporters who were collected, cultivated and channeled during the campaign. Obama wants to be the first president to govern with BlackBerry in hand; he will certainly be the first with a legion of 13 million advocates at his fingertips..."
Added: 7 December 2009;
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