April 24th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
This week, legislation from 10 U.S. States join our Bill Tracker. Legislation from Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington can now be tracked, discussed, and voted on.
We will be adding more States and non-U.S. Countries in the coming weeks and months.
April 15th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Politics4All has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Blog – Political category in The 13th Annual Webby Awards.
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, established in 1996 The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites.
The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to work that scores in the top 15% of all work entered into the Webby Awards. There were nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and overmore than 60 countries.
Winners are chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organization whose members include David Bowie, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Groening, Jamie Oliver, Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, AKQA Global Creative Director Rei Inamoto, and R/GA CEO Bob Greenberg.
Recognition by the Webby Awards puts you in an esteemed group of industry leaders such as Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo!, iTunes, Google, FedEx, BBC News, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, NPR, Salon Magazine, Evite, Meetup, Wikipedia, Flickr, ESPN, Comedy Central, PBS, and The Onion.
Needless to say, the Politics4All team is pretty excited about this honor. But we couldn’t have done it without all the people who come to our site every day. Thanks for coming to the site and making it what it is!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Today we’re launching our Political Feed Reader, a custom, web-based RSS reader (similar to Bloglines or Google Reader) for the personal, non-commercial use of our site members on their MyP4A home pages.
Located in the right sidebar of the MyP4A home page, the Feed Reader allows site members to select a variety of political news feeds from an initial list of over 20 feeds.
Selecting Feeds
Selecting feeds is as simple as clicking the checkboxes beside the feed descriptions you want to receive, then clicking the “Update Subscriptions” button at the bottom of the list to save your choices:
Reading and Sharing News
Headlines for stories from selected feed “channels” (online news, political parties, etc.) will be displayed with a short summary of the article, and the feed will refresh automatically while the site member’s MyP4A page is open in a web browser.
Clicking the story headline will take site members to the full story on the original site, and clicking the “Blog This” link will allow users to share links to the original stories through their Politics4All Blogs.
In addition to automatically refreshing these external news feed lists, site members’ “Recent Activity” and “Latest” tab content will also be refreshed automatically.
Site members are invited to submit requests for news feed sources not currently offered, and we will do our best to accommodate them as we continue offering resources to help our members build and manage their political lifestreams on Politics4All.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
This week we rolled out our first U.S. state bill tracker: Georgia. As with Congressional legislation, State bills can be searched or browsed by anyone. Additionally, site members can track, vote, comment and use the advanced bill searching and filtering tools.
Over the next few months we will continue to push out state legislation through our legislative platform. In addition to U.S. States, we’re also working on adding more countries to the platform starting with Canada and Australia.
With all of the above, we hope to do more than simply provide a means to look at a bill. Our broader concern is to provide site members with helpful and interesting ways to discover how lawmakers around the globe address common issues through legislation, and combine that knowledge with our site tools for information sharing and mobilization.
Some political leaders say they want transparency in government. Some are actually sincere about this statement. We want to take transparency a step further. We want to provide transparency with communication, and connection. Seeing what is being done in government is one thing. Seeing what is going on and being able to express your thoughts with others about it is a much different ballgame.
View bills from the Georgia State Legislature
