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Elections and Politics - United States
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- US President releases first weekly youtube address
- by Craig Thomler. eGov AU - eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Sunday, November 16, 2008. "One of the promises Barack Obama made in the US was to release his weekly address to the nation via Youtube..."
Added: 17 November 2008;
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- Under Obama, Web Would Be the Way
- Unprecedented Online Outreach Expected, By Shailagh Murray and Matthew Mosk. Washington Post, Monday, November 10, 2008. "Chicago -- Armed with millions of e-mail addresses and a political operation that harnessed the Internet like no campaign before it, Barack Obama will enter the White House with the opportunity to create the first truly "wired" presidency..."
Added: 11 November 2008;
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- How Obama Will Use Web 2.0 For Change
- President-elect Barack Obama's harnessing of Web 2.0 technologies enabled his rise to power, and his administration will continue to use them to stay in touch with constituents. That's the contention made by political leaders on the third day of the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, by C.G. Lynch. CIO, 10 November, 2008. "During his campaign, President-elect Barack Obama delivered on the democratic promise of Web 2.0 technologies by using them to give voices to millions of Americans who had traditionally been drowned out by TV pundits, politicians and wealthy donors. And he's already shown he'll continue to use them when he's in office..."
Added: 10 November 2008;
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- Obama's Link Strategy Fuels Election Victory
- By Sage Lewis, Search Engine Watch, November 6, 2008. "Without a doubt, Barack Obama creamed John McCain when it came to links. Yahoo Site Explorer shows nearly 2 million links to www.barackobama.com, but just over 900,000 links to www.johnmccain.com. Let's look closer at these numbers so you can learn from them and possibly apply them to your own situation..."
Added: 10 November 2008;
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- Obama will take to Internet as Roosevelt took to radio
- The Age, November 9, 2008. "Barack Obama's Internet-savvy campaign team will revolutionize White House communications like late president Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) did with the radio, according to NDN think tank president Simon Rosenberg..."
Added: 9 November 2008;
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- Obama to preside over White House 2.0
- The Age, November 9, 2008. "Get ready for White House 2.0. That's what many are expecting when President-Elect Barack Obama becomes President Obama in January and puts the power of his unprecedented Internet operation to work in the Oval Office..."
Added: 9 November 2008;
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- Change.gov Launches, But Can You Find It In Search Engines?
- by Danny Sullivan. Search Engine Land, November 6, 2008. "If you're looking for more about how the Change We Need will be implemented by incoming President Elect Barack Obama's administration, good news! He's got a new transition website up: Change.gov. Bad news — you'd be hard pressed to find it in search being both new and being untargeted toward any search terms..."
Added: 7 November 2008;
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- Change.gov - Office of the President Elect
- Provided by the Obama-Biden Transition Project, this site provides information about the incoming US President's agenda, all aspects of the transition including press releases and announcements, public schedules, briefing schedules and documents, press contacts, and other media resources. The ability to "Share your vision for what America can be" is also provided for anyone who wants to provide input.
Added: 7 November 2008;
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- The California Voters' Experience - in pdf format (647kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). What Works for Them, What Does Not Work, and Where to Go From Here, by Kim Alexander, President & Founder, California Voter Foundation. Prepared at the request of California Forward, October 29, 2008. "This is the first, comprehensive look at voting in California from the voter's perspective. In recent years and for many reasons California voters have been unhappy with their voting experience, from start to finish. There is also disappointment with the steps government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels have taken to facilitate voting. A thorough examination of what works in the voting process, what does not work, and where to go from here to develop and implement a reform consensus is long overdue. This paper is a first important step toward problem diagnosis and should lead down the road to change, from top to bottom of the system..."
Added: 3 November 2008;
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- Greater access to voting information
- Posted by JL Needham, Public Sector Content Partnerships, and Abe Murray, Product Manager. The Official Google Blog, 22 October 2008. "... It's hard to believe that in 2008, information so important to U.S. citizens and the democratic process isn't well organized on the web. To solve this problem, we've released our US Voter Info site, an effort to simplify and centralize voting locations and registration information..."
Added: 29 October 2008;
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- McCain vs Obama: Who Has The Best Website? The WebAward Judges Decide
- More than 100 Internet experts who serve as judges in the annual WebAward competition have reviewed and voted for which president hopeful has the better Website. (PRWEB) Web Marketing Association, October 16, 2008. "The 2008 Presidential election is being fiercely contested by Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama. Both candidates are using the Internet to help their campaigns woo volunteers and campaign contributions. But who has the better Website? The Web Marketing Association has been judging Websites through their annual WebAward Competition for Website development since 1997. More than 18,000 site evaluations have been tabulated during that period and they took up the task of evaluating both candidates Websites..."
Added: 17 October 2008;
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- Being Online is Not Enough - State Elections Web Sites - in pdf format (1,335kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). by Make Voting Work. The Pew Charitable Trusts, October 2008. "... In this report, Make Voting Work (MVW) examined the state elections Web sites in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine whether citizens can find the official election information they need to register to vote, check their registration status and locate their polling places. More importantly, MVW measured if potential voters can use the information on state elections Web sites and if it helps them. We found that every state has room for improvement. However, states can still take steps to help voters; as the election approaches, many states have updated their Web sites and developed tools to help voters this November..."
Added: 17 October 2008;
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- Being Online is Not Enough
- The Pew Center on the States, October 16, 2008. "'Being Online is Not Enough: State Elections Web Sites', a 50-state analysis produced by Make Voting Work, examines election Web sites' usability and finds that when voters cannot easily locate information online, limited resources are diverted to operate costly help lines (as much as $100 per call). Consequently, this report offers recommendations to improve state Web sites before Election Day..."
Added: 17 October 2008;
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- Eight ways technology has shaped the US elections
- From e-voting to text messaging, a look at how tech trends have changed politics, by Brad Reed (Network World). CIO, 16 October, 2008. "Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 US elections -- and it isn't just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we've seen technological advances used both for good, such as using Short Message Service to announce a vice presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice presidential pick's private e-mail account. In this story, we'll take a look at the eight techiest moments of the 2008 presidential race, including YouTube debates, viral videos and e-voting controversies..."
Added: 16 October 2008;
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- US readies e-voting systems as election approaches
- Many US states switch to paper ballots in continuing migration from touch-screen e-voting machines, by Todd R. Weiss. Computerworld (US), 3 October 2008. "With about four weeks to go before the US presidential election, states across the US are preparing for heavy voter turnout that could cause problems for local elections officials and electronic voting systems..."
Added: 3 October 2008;
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