Wired Women, What Kind of World Do You Want to Live and Work In?

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:02:10 +0000

Lisa Stone notes that women are the power users of the social web, and she asks:

So now the question comes back to us: Okay, wired women, what kind of world do you want to live and work in? How much “stuff” will women tolerate before we abandon the offending parties and do our own thing? Will we operate our own op-ed pages or stay off them, as Amy Sullivan wondered last year? Will we run for office or run from the polls?

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Popup Politicians Blog Widget

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:56:57 +0000

With all of the social web start-ups and blog widgets now available for everything from internet fundraising to ecommerce, you would think there might be more political blog widgets and social web sites around. Instead, there appears to be a dearth of innovation in using the potential of the social web for politics. SunLight Labs is one of the few exceptions. They have released a blog widget called Popup Politicians. It contains mini profiles of members of congress, with links to them. It is intended as a step in the right direction, towards more government transparency. There are already sites that are all about political transparancy that have been around for years, like VoteSmart. But the viral marketing, social networking, “mashability” and ease of use that characterize social websites and blog widgets could enable projects like VoteSmart to become more popularized and better utilized.

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Wired Women, What Kind of World Do You Want to Live and Work In?

Popup Politicians Blog Widget