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Shedding light on the subject: the Sunlight Foundation Blog

Kirsten Kielsgard wrote 5 hours ago: The Sunlight Foundation, a D.C. established organization, has named its mission to create transparen … more →

Tags: Transparency, sunlight foundation blog, retweet

Republican's Real Health Reform Strategy2 comments

axisofreason wrote 2 days ago: The health care reform debate engenders what attorneys call a “parade of hypotheticals”.  If Congre … more →

Tags: Health Care, Republicans, Capitol Words, Frank Luntz, Stopping Health Reform

Beta government - Vivek Kundra and Beth Noveck's revolutionary ideas

Bente Kalsnes wrote 2 weeks ago: Photo: David Clow, Flickr, CC The highlights from this weeks Personal Democracy Forum conference in … more →

Tags: Conference, Beth Noveck, New York, obama, Openness, pdf, Transparency, Vivek Kundra, wiki-Government

Quick Hit: Transparency Corps

Scott Madin wrote 2 weeks ago: A while back I posted about a project I highly approve of, the Obameter. Current Obameter stats: Oba … more →

Tags: Accountability, Blue Mass Group, filibusted, Know Thy Congressman, Linkery, Obameter, OpenCongress, openmass, transparency corps

What is going on with the Cap and Trade bill?

brendabowers wrote 3 weeks ago: I am copying the entire Sunlight Foundation blog post here for you to read.  There has been a lot of … more →

Tags: Environment, National Politics, National News, Politics 2009, Obama admistration, Progressives Movement to Destroy America, Politics, obama, Democrats

Open Government Dialogue: Transparency

John Kamensky wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been intrigued by the Open Government initiative that launched May 21st.  The three-phase initi … more →

Tags: Government, presidential transition, Management, obama, Transition 2009, Transparency, National Academy of Public Administration, open government, Beth Noveck

Life and Death of Legislation in the 110th Congress

Erika Wayne wrote 1 month ago: Fascinating new study by the folks at the Sunlight Foundation has just been released. “The Lif … more →

Tags: legislation, Legislative Process, life cycle of legislation

It's a Great Time to be Tweeting if You Know How to Maximize It!

socialwendy wrote 1 month ago:  A Little Twitter Hashtag Test with the Obama Transparency Initiative   White House- Home of The Oba … more →

Tags: Social Marketing Campaigns, Social Media 101- Primer & Tools, Cool Colleague Links, Social Media Content Creation, twitter, Civic Engagement, National Civic Summit, Social Media, Social Marketing

Obama's Transparency Initiative- Be Heard America - Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation

socialwendy wrote 1 month ago: Sunlight Foundation the Transparency Watchdogs    CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS are CHANGING AMERICA! A Note f … more →

Tags: Civic Engagement, Creating Thought Leadership, National Civic Summit, Social Marketing Campaigns, Social Media Content Creation, What's next, Citizens League, Citizenship, Mark Ritchie

Know what your Federal government is doing. Sunlight Foundation

brendabowers wrote 2 months ago: http://www.opencongress.org A project of the Sunlight Foundation and PPF This is a site every Amer … more →

Tags: National Politics, National News, Politics 2009, Obama admistration, Politics, obama, Conservatives, Democrats, Congress

The "New" Transparency

John Kamensky wrote 2 months ago: A couple weeks ago, I attended the Mercatus Center’s 10th annual ceremony releasing their assessment … more →

Tags: Transition 2008, Government, presidential transition, Management, obama, Transition 2009, Recovery Act!, GPRA, Transparency

An exploration into D.C.'s schmooze culture

Maureen Backman wrote 2 months ago: Politico has a great article up today on the schmoozing and fundraising hotspots in D.C. Because I a … more →

Tags: Quirk, Politics, Barney Frank, D C, political fundraising, Político, Party Time!

Open the Government Webcast

Taylor Willingham wrote 2 months ago: JOIN OUR WEBCAST AT: http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/webcasts/ The Hon. Former … more →

Tags: technology, Texas Forums Events, Bill Bradley, billhop.com, Clay Johnson, Conor Kenny, Damien Brockmann, Eric Gundersen, Fred Zipp

Nonprofits are Falling Behind Gov 2.01 comment

Allison Fine wrote 2 months ago: A few days ago, I tweeted my friend Marty to ask him about an article he had mentioned a while back … more →

Tags: Social Media, techpresident, NTEN, Katya Andreeson, Marty Kearns, US Army Public Affairs, Serve.gov, recovery.gov, Overbrook Foundation

Democracy 2.0

acm213 wrote 2 months ago: This is your money. You have a right to know where it’s going and how it’s being spent. … more →

Tags: Politics, Sociology, npr, recovery.gov, personal democracy forum, macon phillips, andrew rasiej, filibusted, legistalker

Open Government on the Internet: A New Era of Transparency

Taylor Willingham wrote 3 months ago: Date: May 15, 2009 Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Place: LBJ Presidential Library and Museum F … more →

Tags: Texas Forums Events, Workshops and Seminars, Announcements, Bill Bradley, e-democracy, President Johnson, Transparency, open government, Vivek Kundra

Open Secrets - Open Data

Erika Wayne wrote 3 months ago: The Center for Responsive Politics is posting 200 million data records on-line today — FOR FRE … more →

Tags: Government Information, open access, Center for Responsive Politics, Ellen Miller, opensecrets.org

Sunlight Foundation proposes lobbying oversight website

Randy Wilson wrote 3 months ago: This sounds promising: “Sunlight proposes a single Web site administered by the executive bra … more →

Tags: Sunshine Resources, LinkedIn, Internet, Obama Administration, Lobbying

Lobbying social-media style with Twitter: Examples and how-to's

Maureen Backman wrote 3 months ago: It’s been about a year since I’ve created a Twitter feed for my organization, Public Cit … more →

Tags: Advocacy, Non-Profit Technology, activism, Public Citizen, twitter, Twitter lobby, Lobbying, ProgressiveExchange, consumers union


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