New Features on Politics4All allow members to create polls, easily share content through their blogs, and use the Bill Tracker to see how Congress members voted on bills
November 24th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Polls
Need to gather a little bit of feedback on an issue, or just find a new way to bring attention to it? Create a poll. Now, individual site members can create custom polls linked from their profile pages. This feature was previously only available to groups and campaigns.
To create a Poll, Just choose the Polls link in the Citizen Links box on your MyP4A page
click the New Poll link
and you’ll be taken to a page that allows you to set up a poll:
“Blog On P4A” Bookmarklet
Another new feature, the “Blog on P4A” Bookmarklet, makes sharing relevant political content on the web much easier. The bookmarklet allows those with Politics4All accounts to easily clip a portion of a story on another website and blog about it on Politics4All.
First, ADD the bookmarklet
The bookmarklet can be added by going to Your Settings > Tools and following the instructions under Bookmarklet:
Choose
Next, USE the bookmarklet to share news and other content
To use the bookmarklet while you’re reading an article on another website, use your mouse to highlight a small portion of text you wish to quote
click the Blog On P4A button in your toolbar or in your Favorites
and you’ll be taken to a new entry in your Politics4All blog, with the quote, link, and title already filled-in:
If you’re not currently signed into Politics4All, you’ll be prompted to sign-in before the process can be completed. Once on the new blog post page, you can edit the title or quote if you wish, and add your own comments before posting. Please follow all copyright and fair-use requirements when quoting from other websites.
Congressional Roll Call Votes
Roll Call Votes for the Congress are now being fed into Politics4All. We’ve currently got the votes for the 110th Congress, and will be aggregating the 111th Congress on a daily basis when it convenes in January 2009. For bills that have been voted on, the vote information is linked from the Recent Votes section on the bill’s Status tab:
In this case, following the House Roll Call Vote #681 link will bring you to the vote results page for #681:
Check it out and let us know if you have any problems using these features.
