Two interesting uses of technology from prominent House members, a republican and a democrat.
First, Minority Leader John Boehner has a twitter badge up on his Republican Leader website. This allows him to post status updates on his whereabouts to a very specific degree. While it appears to only have been updated once […]
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Two House Tech Updates
September 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Member Web Sites · OpenHouse · askgeorge · committees · government websites · twitter
Staff Working Conditions
July 26th, 2007 · No Comments
I didn’t realize until recently the degree to which transparency reforms can benefit congressional staff.
Today’s Roll Call provides yet another example of how:
House e-mail server problems have left thousands of Capitol Hill staffers wringing their hands in frustration over the past two weeks as Congress has moved into its annual pre-August legislative crunch time.
Of about […]
Tags: Congress · House of Representatives · OpenHouse · appropriations · askgeorge · email
George Miller Taps Web 2.0
June 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment
As David All and I have written, the rules governing member Web sites are not fit for the 21st Century Web. If the rules were enforced with any regularity, instead of used as a scarecrow to keep members from innovating, then some of the best practices by members on the Web wouldn’t be happening. Case […]
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