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Obama Team Revamps WhiteHouse.Gov

by Terrence O'Brien on January 21, 2009 at 01:15 PM

Obama Team Revamps WhiteHouse.Gov, Starts Crowdsourcing
Before Obama was even sworn in, WhiteHouse.gov, one of the most valuable assets the White House has in the age of the Internet, was handed over to his control.

The site has received a face lift so that it more closely resembles that of Change.gov, the site for Obama's transition team, replacing the Bush-era WhiteHouse.gov, which was a static page with little chance for user interaction and a little reminiscent of a Geocities home page. Macon Phillips, Director of New Media for the Obama White House, detailed for the New York Times the administration's plans to reach out to citizens and to provide more transparency for the governmental process via the new site.

News about policy will be shared through e-mail alerts and blogs (something missing from the Bush White House Web site), and all of President Obama's proclamations and executive orders will be posted for the public to review. We're impressed by the commitment to, "publish all non-emergency legislation to the Web site for five days, and allow the public to review and comment before the President signs it."


And if blogging, and e-mail alerts aren't immediate enough for you there is always the White House Twitter feed. So you can track news from your cell phone and pose questions to the administration, as long as they're under 140 characters.

A White House that blogs and openly seeks the public's feed back on the inner-workings of government? The days of Cheney erasing his bunker... we mean house... from Google Maps may finally be behind us. [From: NYTimes.com]

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