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This is clearly a site in the works. It is changing before my eyes. If you have trouble pulling it up, below in the text from the home page as of 1:20 p.m. Central.
A few notes:
1. .Gov Sort Of - While using a .Gov domain, the “Obama-Biden Transition Project” say they are a 501c(4) organization, so that is interesting.
2. E-mail Opt-in - The top item is the option to leave an e-mail address and your zip code. Yes! Finally a government … ish site that realizes the most important hit is an opt-in e-mail connection that allows people to say “tell me when something is new.”
3. Public Input - The site is asking for public input!!!! “Tell us your story - www.change.gov/page/s/yourstory - and the issues that matter most to you. Share with us your concerns and hopes - www.change.gov/page/s/yourvision . � the policies you want to see carried out in the next four years.”
I wonder what they will do with a few million submissions? Perhaps crowd-source ratings to bring the best submissions (or most gamed) to the top for many to read.
If you’d like to advise the next administration on ways to use the Internet in governance and “pitch in” as President-elect Obama requested the other night … join the U.S. Democracy Online Exchange to trade notes and advice. While some of you may have a track to Obama insiders, why provide input the old-fashioned closed beltway kind of way?
Instead, live the dream of a new participatory politics by publicly sharing your input, advice, reactions, and ideas so they will be noticed by the builders of the next WhiteHouse.Gov and others. By crowd sourcing advice for use of the Internet in governance your great technical/political/design mind can not only influence Federal developments, but also efforts at the local and state level. This is it. What happens in the next three months will determine just how interactive the next four to eight years of American democracy will be NOT just to win and election but to meet public challenges and govern.
Join the U.S. Democracy Online Exchange online group (a combo e-list, web forum (no e-mail setting), blog feed, simple social net) from:
Steven Clift
Democracies Online
E-Democracy.Org
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 | 75 Days Until Inauguration
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