CMF published an interim report Communicating with Congress: Recommendations for Improving the Democratic Dialogue . I had one of those “someone got it right” moments reading the report. Following what seemed to be tireless work by Daniel Bennett and Rob Pierson (Rep. Mike Honda’s office) and CMF staff going back a long time, and a [...]
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Communicating with Congress: Recommendations for Improving the Democratic Dialogue
June 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: CMF · Structured Data · advocacy · communication · openhouseproject
S.Pub 102-20
December 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I’ve been on a mission, since November 14th, to find a digital copy of S.Pub 102-20, a reference document from 1990 giving a very comprehensive analysis of all public congressional information, from an archival perspective. I’ve finally managed to digitize a copy (after some quality time at the scanner). It is a large file. (Click [...]
Tags: CLA · CONAN · NARA · OpenHouse · advocacy · archive · archivist · government websites · jurisdiction · lobbying disclosure
Eight Open Government Data Principles
December 10th, 2007 · No Comments
This weekend an Open Government Working Group conference was held in Sebastopol, CA. It was very useful and productive. I didn’t think that I contributed as much as I should have, personally, but in any case… Sunlight’s Micah Sifry has a good write-up, so I won’t repeat all of those details. (It was great to [...]
Tags: OpenHouse · Structured Data · advocacy · government websites
US Chamber of Commerce, Internet Advocacy
November 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I had the pleasure this morning of speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for a panel on Innovative Advocacy (cohosted by Adfero).
While much of the discussion centered on best practices and ideas around (what seemed to me to be) more traditional advocacy, I tried to add some of my thoughts on what might make [...]
Tags: CRS reports · Congress · OpenHouse · advocacy · government websites


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