Today, the Republican National Committee is electing a new Chair at their winter meetings. The Chair is elected through a series of secret ballots, the results of which are announced to the folks attending the meetings. This kind of event is made for Twitter, as tons of people in the room as posting results in real time. ...
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Last week a project we work on, the Pickens Plan, won a Reed Award for best use of social networking technology. The Reed Award is put on by Campaign & Elections’ Politics Magazine and recognizes excellence in political communication. The award was given in recognition of Push.PickensPlan.com, a Ning-based social network that has attracted around 200,000 members who support the principles of the Pickens Plan. ...
Continue ReadingDigital cameras have removed the need for film, meaning there really isn’t any additional cost associated with taking a bunch of photos. The result is that people with digital cameras are pretty much taking pictures all the time and amassing huge photo libraries. But what do you do with all those photos? ...
Continue ReadingLast Thursday, we released the 2009 edition of our newspaper study. There was some great commentary about the study around the blogosphere. The general reaction was relief that newspaper website are getting better, but a sense that whatever they do probably won’t be enough. Below are few of the more interesting points folks made....
Continue ReadingChange.gov launched a Digg-inspired feature yesterday that allows users to submit questions to the Obama transition teams and vote questions submitted by other visitors up or down. Open for Questions has enjoyed a good deal of activity so far (410,000 votes on over 5,000 questions) even though it is not at all clear what the transition team intends to do with the data it collects. ...
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