Serving Others…Online

A little more than a month ago, Todd devoted a post to Blogswana, a project centered on blogging for AIDS Education. The project centers around a university student blogging on behalf of a person afflicted with HIV or AIDS and telling their stories to the Internet audience. It’s a good and necessary project and one that I think will touch the lives of so many people....

The Internet’s Role in Political Campaigns

We recently completed a study that assesses the utilization of the Internet as a tool for 2006 political campaigns. The study, a follow-up of the 2002 version, examined how 2006 senatorial candidates used the Web to publicize information about their campaign platforms, personal backgrounds, and volunteer opportunities. We looked at a number of Web campaign tools and made comparisons based on party affiliations,...

2006 Blog Review

After finishing our study of campaign websites, we took the time to check out the Senate candidates’ blogs.  Here is a review of some of the best and worst campaign blogs for 2006.

Rick Santorum’s (R-PA) blog, “Running with Rick”, was the most complete of the three incumbent blogs we found,...

Google Notebooks=Grrreat!

For someone who loves to squirrel away nuggets of information (everything from ornithology to celebrity news), Google Notebooks has provided a great tool to all of us. I have created a number of new notebooks since yesterday (one for each client, plus one solely dedicated to recipes involving easy-to-prepare rice dishes and cake recipes that consist of stacking Hostess Ding Dongs on top of each other). ...

Best 2006 Senate Campaign Websites

We’ve been working on a study testing how effectively this year’s Senate candidates are using the Internet for their campaign websites. The study won’t be released for a few days, but so far we have been able to identify some of the best campaign websites out there. These websites stand out because they successfully present seemingly complicated web tools in a clear and user-friendly fashion,...