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Re: Grading WhiteHouse.gov

by Tim on March 24, 2009

44: The Obama Presidency, one of the Washington Post’s blogs, today came out with a new monthly feature where they’ll have a group of five experts (for today, that’s Craig Newmark, Andrew Rasiej, Ellen Miller, Jon Henke, and David Weinberger) examine the new WhiteHouse.gov website: Grading WhiteHouse.gov
Excerpt:
For all the innovations of Obama’s WhiteHouse.gov — yesterday, officials announced that [...]

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Finding Appropriate Evaluation Criteria for Participant Input

by Tim on February 17, 2009

A common approach to trying to surface the most relevant, highest-quality or most agreed-upon items out of a large quantity of content is to allow participants to rate each other’s contributions and then expose the highest-rated items in a “most popular” list. Very often, a simple binary, up-or-down rating mechanism is used for this purpose.
The [...]

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Structuring Participant Input: Dynamic Facilitation, Brainstorming

by Tim on February 15, 2009

While I was assembling my off-the-cuff analysis of input types on Change.gov, I felt compelled to revisit two existing facilitation techniques that help guide participation by adding to the process the kind of structure that I believe could work very well for large-scale efforts.
First, Dynamic Facilitation, a method I first learned about at the 2006 National Conference on Dialogue [...]

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25 Types of Participant Input on Change.gov

by Tim on February 15, 2009

As I pointed out previously, some of the discussions we saw on Change.gov were all over the place even when they were supposed to focus on specific topic-related questions (e.g. “What worries you most about the healthcare system in our country?”) or tasks (suggesting a question or an idea to the president-elect).
At the massive scale [...]

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Clay Shirky on Change.gov and Crowd Wisdom

by Tim on February 9, 2009

David Wilcox reports on a talk Clay Shirky gave at the London School of Economics this past week about collective action in a political context and some of the discussions that have since ensued: Clay Shirky: online crowds aren’t always wise
Clay Shirky, leading commentator on internet technologies and author of Here Comes Everybody, last night backed away from [...]

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Participation on the New WhiteHouse.gov Website

by Tim on January 20, 2009

Today at noon Eastern Time, WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the President of the United States of America, underwent its long-expected relaunch. Those who have been following candidate and president-elect Barack Obama’s web efforts over the last year will surely recognize it.
This announcement sounds exciting:
Participation – President Obama started his career as a community organizer on the [...]

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Change.gov launches online discussion around healthcare

by Tim on December 1, 2008

Last Tuesday on Change.gov (the official website of President-elect Barack Obama), the transition team launched a public online discussion on the topic of healthcare. From the announcement on their blog:
Join the Discussion
Today we’re trying out a new feature on our website that will allow us get instant feedback from you about our top priorities. We also hope [...]

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